Surprising CSO

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) released the Index of Industrial Production for June and the general index showed a 2.2 per cent drop from the index a year ago, and a cumulative drop of 1.1 per cent in the April-to-June quarter over the previous corresponding quarter. No surprises there for anyone who has been following the economy - including, it appears, CSO functionaries. Thus, when opened on some browsers the title of the PDF file containing the press release on the June numbers was titled Are You Surprised?-t2_new.pdf.