This column comes with a health warning. The usual balanced macroeconomic analysis will return next week. This week we’re going with an old-school rant. Ireland’s prosperity comes from its deep integration into global supply chains. These days we ship more ones and zeros than things you can drop on your foot, but our openness to the world has been our calling card since the 1950s. Previous columns have repeatedly discussed the need to consider the bigger picture when it comes to our international position, and I won’t rehearse those themes. The great truth of this century is learning to come…

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