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# leprechaun economics

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Column: The Leprechauns are at it again in the latest GDP figures for Ireland
But on the upside Ireland’s inflated GDP makes it easier for the country to meet the 3% of GDP budget deficit target, writes Victor Duggan.
We might have to give the EU an extra €280 million because of those inflated GDP figures
The massive 26% hike in GDP was decried by one financial journalist as a “work of Irish fiction”.
Ireland has made itself the laughing stock of the economic world, but does that matter?
Multinational tax avoidance has been brought back on the agenda.