Predicted weakness for our neighbour bad news for Irish exporters
ANALYSIS:Our labour markets are as closely integrated as any in Europe
BRITISH COMPANIES export more to the Republic than to the four Bric economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China) combined. This factoid caused some searching of British souls when it did the rounds in London at the end of last year. How, exhorted many, could a small, floundering economy be a more important export market than the planet’s four most-hyped emerging giants put together?