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Thu 04 Apr 2007Growth will fall to 4% next year, Central Bank warnsEconomic growth will fall to 4 per cent next year, according to the latest forecasts from the Central Bank. The bank also expects that the economy will grow by only 5 per cent this year, compared with its earlier prediction of 5.75 per cent.Tom O'Connell, assistant director-general and head of the bank's economic department, said that the economy's performance to date had been "pretty good".