{"id":506154,"date":"2026-05-28T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/506154\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:52:11","slug":"lucey-the-imf-warning-irelands-establishment-wont-discuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/506154\/","title":{"rendered":"LUCEY: The IMF Warning Ireland&#8217;s Establishment Won&#8217;t Discuss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Every year or so, the International Monetary Fund dispatches a team of economists to assess Ireland\u2019s public finances and report back to the world. Every year, they say more or less the same thing. And every year, the political establishment nods politely, files the document away, and gets back to spending.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, the IMF published its Article IV concluding statement for 2026. It is, as these documents go, a model of tactful alarm. The fund\u2019s economists praised Ireland\u2019s \u201cstrong performance,\u201d acknowledged the resilience of the domestic economy, and then proceeded to explain \u2014 with the carefully modulated urgency of a doctor delivering a diagnosis to a patient who doesn\u2019t want to hear it \u2014 that the foundations of this prosperity are considerably less solid than they appear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every year or so, the International Monetary Fund dispatches a team of economists to assess Ireland\u2019s public finances&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,13782,179,18,1729,19,13484,5233,17,227,132633],"class_list":["post-506154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-corporate","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-finance","tag-ie","tag-imf","tag-income-tax","tag-ireland","tag-jobs","tag-tax-base"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116649705264013314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}