With constant talk of inflation, we may also now have to deal with a dreaded rise in Interest Rates.

Writing recently in the Sunday Independent Economist Colm McCarthy talked about the ‘holiday drawing to a close’.

Colm joined Bobby in the studio to discuss.

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