JUDE COLLINS: Economic realities we can’t afford to ignore

DAVID McWilliams is a formidable man. He was raised in Monkstown, as comfortable a South Dublin area as you could wish for. He was educated at Blackrock College and Trinity College, he has a Masters degree in economics from the College of Europe, Belgium. He invented the phrase ‘Celtic Tiger’ and he warned about its coming demise and the collapse of the property bubble in the South when others closed their eyes. In short, McWilliams knows his economic onions. So when in a recent article he compared the economies of the North and South, it made informative reading. To say he thinks Brexit was a bad idea would be an understatement. He notes th…