Ireland Is Managing a Recovery, Not a Crisis

The Irish have many reasons to be optimistic. The worst of the country's financial crisis has passed: Unemployment is dropping and its economy grew 6.9 percent in 2015, by far the fastest rate in the European Union. But Ireland's problems are far from over, and the decisions made by governments before and during the bailout program, in place from 2011 to 2013, will affect the general elections on Feb. 26 and those that come after. ...