Thank you for the invitation to speak today. It is a pleasure to be here at Technological University Dublin to speak about Ireland’s changing economy, and I look forward to your questions afterwards. Whatever you go on to do, you will spend your working lives making decisions shaped by the economy, and many of you will help shape it. Alfred Marshall called economics the study of people in the ‘ordinary business of life’. Looking across an audience of young people starting out on their studies or careers, two things come to mind when I think of the ordinary business of your lives: what you can expect to earn and ... (full story)