Irish economy surges

DUBLIN: Ireland´s economy grew at the fastest rate in the European Union last year, data showed Thursday as the Eurozone nation added it would repay more IMF bailout loans early.
Output soared 4.8 percent in 2014, boosted by both domestic demand and strong exports, after Ireland emerged from an international bailout in late 2013, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) said. That was far higher than the EU average of 1.3 percent and the Eurozone average of just 0.9 percent.