Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe outside the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin on Wednesday. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire The economic outlook for Ireland has become “increasingly uncertain” in recent months with the rise of protectionism and the tariff threats from the Trump administration now posing a significant risk, the Department of Finance has warned. The heightened uncertainty prompted the department to tell Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe as he took up his new portfolio that economic growth forecasts made in last October’s budget may have to be revised downwards. And it pointed out that public expenditure has...