Joe Lynam

Good morning.

Pleasure to be here.

Now, Martina, can you break down your assessment along scenario lines, i.e.

Well, at least in North County, Dublin, Austin Hughes.

how our economy would respond to a series of headwinds or scenarios?

Good morning, Austin.

Good morning, Joe.

How are you?

Let's start with the competitiveness scenario, whereby wages might fall notably among our big trading partners.

Bad luck against Crystal Palace yesterday.

How was the weather in the Tala Stadium last night?

No, it shouldn't.

Of course, compounded by the green line being off as well, even though obviously Tala is on the red line for the Lewis, the green line being off, it compounded the issue and horrendous weather, as you say.

Now, let's start with the inflation number out with the CSO yesterday, worryingly back over 3%.

So 3.2% gross national income is still not a bad rate of growth though, is it?

And sometimes it costs an awful lot of money for companies to mitigate cyber risks.

Geopolitical risk wasn't a big issue two years ago, but it's in the top 10 this year.

And I just wonder, is that fear of Russian attacks or Donald Trump and his wayward trade policies?

Oh, dear.

We appear to have lost Martina there for a moment.