Ireland is so rich 40% of working people under the age of 35 live in their childhood bedroom without hope of buying or renting their own home.
Ireland is so rich that each month it sets new homelessness records with 17,500 people being homeless in March.
Ireland is so rich that 3 out of 5 Irish people under the age of 25 want to emigrate and 81% said they'd have a better quality of life elsewhere.
Ireland is so rich that Irish people - not high-earning non-Irish FDI tech multinational (Indian) workers, and not no-earning false asylum claimants - will at best be able to move into a garden shed out the back of their parent's home.
Ireland is so rich that when it snows elderly people across the nation - particularly in the west - are left without heat and electricity because of archaic infrastructure outside of the capital.
Ireland is so rich that hauliers and farmers recently braved being pepper-sprayed by police to try and bring notice to the fact that they are living paycheque to paycheque.
Ireland is so rich that groceries cost the second-highest in the Eurozone - 12% above the EU average. It has the highest electricity costs in Europe (excluding inflationary government subsidies). Ireland is so rich it routinely tops the most expensive lists for hotels, dining, internet, phones, postage etc.
Ireland is so rich...on paper.
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This is the main reason I left Ireland.
Income tax, motor tax, value added tax, carbon tax, universal social charge, extortionate insurance rates, ZERO support as a home grown entrepreneur.
Only for politicians to piss it away with nothing to show for it. Billions funneled on hotel accommodation instead of permenant housing. Billions wasted on state media that I wipe the floor with in production quality with a 300k budget. Billions wasted on unelected quango organizations that serve no purpose other than to disrupt development.
Meanwhile the government BEGS Apple to not pay us the tax they owe us. While they pay our people half what they pay less educated Americans with lower costs of living.
Irish citizens are second class citizens to US corporations.
The Irish Media's unbroken pattern of reserving detailed investigations for critics of the state, and never the state itself, continues unimpeachably. As one would expect when the media depends now almost entirely on state funding to survive.
Something to consider and one of the reasons why the rulers of Ireland will not bring down the fuel prices.
According to reports and commentary Fuels for Ireland's CEO on Newstalk, the Irish government collected an extra €38 million in VAT from fuel sales last week compared to what would have been collected at lower pre-spike prices.
Think about that !