The people whose job it is to assess the health of company finances are getting gloomy about the outlook for Irish, European and global growth.
An overwhelming majority of Irish construction firms say they can’t meet the scale of demand in the industry as rising costs and lack of skilled labour crimp productivity.
The news that majority State-owned bank AIB is terminating cash services at 70 of its 170 branches has been met with shock and anger in rural Ireland.
