The ESRI’s recent ‘Recovery Scenarios for Ireland’ offers us a glimpse of the ‘nirvana of the return to normal’ – a set of projections that could see the economy, if not flying high, then at least gliding well above ground level within a couple of years. It assumes that ‘if-only-we-can-get-through-this-spot-of-bother’ we can resume high levels of growth and relatively low (relative to today) levels of unemployment.