The task of forecasting how the Irish economy will perform in 2024 is made all the more difficult by the contradictory indicators on its performance in 2023.
Other indicators, though, point to a resilient performance by the economy in the face of higher interest rates and a slowdown in global growth.
Turning to 2024, another year of sluggish growth is anticipated for the global economy, with demand dampened by the tightening of monetary policy in the past two years and cost-of-living pressures.
