The latest Ulster Business Top 100 Northern Ireland Companies edition, with A&L Goodbody, showed seriously strong performances from many of our biggest best firms, with pre-tax profits up 46%. John Mulgrew speaks to head of A&L Goodbody's Belfast office, Michael Neill, about a "difficult" year ahead, the success and resilience of our private sector, a lag which could see an increase in insolvencies in 2023 but why he doesn't believe we're in for anything like the same deluge which happened following the 2008 recession.

We could be in for a difficult year ahead