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Ireland - 2nd Best in the World for Quality of Life

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    #32
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,292 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    TP_CM wrote: »
    It's pretty impressive when you consider the shape the country was in just a few generations ago. Our parents and grandparents completely revolutionised the country from being 3rd world to now being 2nd best. They made a few mistakes alright but credit where credit's due. We could be living very different lives if it weren't for their drive to stay here and clean it up.

    Yes and no... this is where we should have been generations ago if we hadn't shot ourselves in the foot with e.g. economic war with Britain in the 1930s, virtual autarky etc
    In the 1890s Ireland's standard of living was in the Top 10 in the world.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #33
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,110 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Note that the HDI uses national income figures which are distorted by MNC activity.





    https://twitter.com/seamuscoffey/status/1339544942033711105


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