As a child from the sixties, I remember growing up with no bathroom, no heating, throwing heavy coats on my bed in the winter to keep warm. leaving school at fifteen to find work. To be honest I had a good childhood because everyone was in the same boat and we didn't know any differently, so we just got on with things. I 've lived in France now for twenty years and I love getting home and when i see the transformation I'm amazed and deeply proud. When I see so many people wanting to come and live in Ireland, I see it a huge positive because for so long we exported our youth and best educated. No society is perfect, no matter how rich it is, and Ireland has its problems, but sometimes we need to reflect on our dark and impoverished past in order to give ourselves a slap on the back and say: you know what, we're not a bad little country.
Never good to blow your own trumpet but it’s been guaranteed to bring out the bitterness. You can always point out issues in every country but in comparison Ireland has done phenomenally well in the last number of decades.
@@ellismeah8110 The UK gained way more out of the EU than they had to put in. Leaving was crazy. And in terms of putting money in the idea is to bring the newer entrants up to speed until they too get strong enough to become net contributors and the load is spread more making the whole EU even stronger. Ireland would be a good case in point for this.
@jmo8934 I believe that the average UK voter didn't understand the workings of the EU and how it contributed to, for example, capital projects. They'll be the poorer for it without doubt. I work in Rural Development her in Ireland and without doubt, financial contributions from the EU, from differing pots, have changed our economic development for the better.
@@EMMYK1916ROI is not a net contributer....that's why yiu feel you are getting something out if it. Wait until.the orbdulym swings and physiologically you start to think the EU is taking the p!ss....that and uncontrolled immigration which I see ROI are starting to protest against. Ironically now I further see the EU are wanting to limit immigration and control the borders.....10 - 15 years too late. Glad we are out and not looking for any arguments, this is not about being bitter. ROI have benefited, fair play...let's see when the pendulum swings as it will do.
When you go out to dinner in Ireland or when you have a meal in any pub or restaurant, you are literally enjoying the best available food in the world. There is nowhere in the world that can offer any better than you can find in Ireland.
Drivir2616 are you having a laugh the description good food and Ireland do not go together. On average everything is over cooked and thrown on a plate like someone doing his best to make an abstract painting without success. If you want really good food go to France Spain Portugal and or Italy
@@miakeogh6844 : I’ve eaten out all across the US, most EU nations and some non EU nations in Europe and as far afield as China. I still contend that Ireland has very few competitors in the field of food preparation and service except perhaps for Italy.
Our four Grans came to Boston about the 1930's or so. I catch myself sorry they did so till I remember they sought a better life for their families. I love to think we'll have a grand reunion there someday.
I am aged 84 and have lived in dublin all my life save for 2 years with PwC in Paris in 1962 /64. I have watched ireland grow all my life and my 4 grandchildren start professional careers. It started with ken whittakers first programme for economic expansion in 1959 followed by OMalleys free secondary education.a few years later. Read Whittakers document and list the beneficial outcomes from his ideas all promoted by Lemass. David mccabe dublin
A great read - not from cover to cover but dip in every now and then. We have indeed done very well and we are a very different country to the one I was born into in the 1950s. The book does not set out to offer opinion but rather compiles various reports from official agencies and statistics to reflect our attainment in a number of areas, education, health, etc. across the years. The writing is far from complex and the supporting statistics are presented in charts that everyone is familiar with from school. A great marker of our social, economic, political and most importantly, our psychological development as a nation. Yup! We have done very well. A book that's well worth having.
I agree. I was born in 1949. I marvel at the transformation of Ireland. In 1960 the population of the Republic was just over 2.8 million. In the 1950s 50,000 to 100,000 of our people emigrated every year. Articles were written about "the vanishing Irish". Small farmers lived barely above subsistence level. There were slum tenements only yards from O'Connell Street. And it was a fairly cruel society with brutal reformatories and mother and baby homes among other things. Since the 60s the trajectory has been upwards. Of course there were setbacks along the way but the country we live in now, for all its problems (to be alive is to have problems), is enormously improved on what it was.
Look at all the boomers with their smug self satisfaction…. Their legacy ….. where young Irish couples , who did everything the right way , put the head down at school, both getting a job, diligently saved … and still can’t afford a reasonable house to start a family. Then the boomers decide to open the borders to unchecked mass immigration because the younger generations aren’t having enough children….. oh yes …and give the housing away to the foreigners….. because they don’t want to be called racist!😖😖 The generation that destroyed our nation for their future generations.
After 300 years of British domination and degradation (culturally, economically etc) it’s good to see the Irish succeeding. Thank you to the EU for setting us up for this current state of wellness and prosperity.
Joke? Now the EU are busy flooding the country with illegal no passports economic migrants whereas the real Irish are treated as second class citizens behind no passport migrants. This country is a joke, no freedom, protests heavily policed and woke ideology being promoted by Government, civil and public servants, sex education and puberty blockers being taught and encouraged to very young children by the NTO and the HSE. When Trump offers better tax term to the US companies and the tech industry, what have we left - our industry, fishing water, oil and gas either taken by the EU or given away. And then we are left with - our gombeen grasping politicians, 30,000 NGOs and the rest of the teat suckers.
The fisheries worth € trillions, has been given away, with 5.25 trillion parts of micro plastic in the seas, with cholera virus attached, the seas and life in it, and all that depends on it, could soon end.
@@usandusonly32 Our membership of the EEC/EC/EU was THE major factor in the utterly AMAZING transformation of Ireland's economy, culture, society and general wellbeing. "Thank you to the EU?!" Most definitely YES! By the way, the proportion of Irish people who would vote to leave the EU is smaller than the margin of error of the regular Red-C polls.....
.......and thank god there was a Brexit deal (good or bad) otherwise Merkel the then unelected EU leader was preparing to throw Ireland under the next bus.
There is so much to argue with in this...... corruption in the planning process has been endemic for half a century going back to Section 4 of the then planning act around 1970 which allowed political councillors overturn planning decisions and convert agricultural land into development land multiplying its value by a factor of 10 in the greater Dublin area at the time. The resulting mess is everywhere to see. Our legal system was something we inherited from Britain and was unfit for purpose from Day 1. Still is. As in the UK, private property is sanctified by law and property rights trump everything else. Which leads us to Europe's worst housing problem, something which this government, like all its predecessory without exception, resolutely fail to deal with adequately. There is so so much more but this "We're a great little country" bullshit butters no parsnips with me.
If property rights are “sanctified” how come the property called the family home literally the roof over your head is Taxed in other words you pay tax for the privilege of having a roof over your head. If property is sanctified how come the government can dictate how much rent you can charge, how long you can rent for to whom you can rent to and under what circumstances you can get “your” property back? Why have all the landlords got to hell out of the rental market abandoning it to the corporate vulture funds? You can’t even let out a room in your house to tourists without planning permission from the Marxist government. Tell me again about these sanctified property rights? You sound like someone who has no property and are divorced from the reality of owning property.
@@sarahann530 Yes, it comes from agriculturally zoned land. That is not the problem. The problem is the brown-envelope-fuelled "economy" surrounding the rezoning of this land.
@@97henrik041 So how do you suggest farming land be rezoned into development land which is needed to build houses, factories etc ? Does one councillor control the rezoning or is it put before a planning committee?
I'll tell you what's even more disturbing is a good chunk of the Irish people are on board with MSM or woke brigade and it's all about running with the narrative so the mindset is different now and I don't like it one bit. Basically everything now is agenda driven 🤮
The thing about the MNCs is that a large slice of the taxes is free money and by that I mean there is no public expenditure needed to earn it as the MNCs are not consuming any public infrastructure and so income taxes would be higher or services would be reduced without it.
If only ff fg never existed what a country we would be, remember ray bourke gave away all our oil reserveres for free! probably trillions of euros shell get for free and still drilling only in Ireland.
@@_alienblood and found nothing viable. Anyway, thanks to the Greens, the exploration companies are not allowed now to develop the gas fields that were found.
@alienblood alienblood What oil reserves has all this free drilling discovered. None Zada Zilsch.We discovered a couple of minor gas fields, Kinsale and Corrib that's it. There just isn't a north sea off our west coast unfortunately.
12 year olds boys and girl smoking vape and doing cocaine. Hooligans stealing stores 24h a day, rampant alcoholism, homeless people everywhere, a severr home crisis that is driving a lot of natives out. I spent 8 months there.
@@PanglossDr stop talking shit. You don't even live here. I do , and we're at the stage where its not safe in your own home and we're not safe walking through a town during the day let alone at night
Because of the two tier economy Irish people are not benefitting from the high GDP. Multinationals are funnelling money through Eire because of the tax strategy but it's not getting into Irish pockets. Most of the people working for Google are not Irish. I'm glad Eire is doing so well on those other measures.
While I agree with you generally about the two tier system, I think you're equating individual wealth to common wealth. Ireland is on course to produce a financial surplus of €16Bn this year. (only heard today on radio, so we'll see if its true) If we get our act together, and let's be honest, we should invest it in things that benefit everyone! (with an emphasis on those less well off!) whatever they're doing, we're far wealthier now than we were even before the crash in 2008, up until which, FF gave away money like snuff at a wedding. (to individuals) Maybe they're being a bit more circumspect now. There does seem to be more investment in social services, and if so, this will benefit everyone. (I work in social services, so can see it happening in real time) Regardless of this, there'll be plenty of coffers in the tank for the next government to make an impact on the housing problems, which won't be a FG & FF arrangement
Let's get this straight Jonathan. The official name for this island is Ireland if you are speaking English. If you are speaking Irish you can refer to the Island as Éire. There is no Island called Eire in the English language. For your information 10% of the Irish workforce work in Big Tech and Big Pharma and they are in high-positioned jobs as well. The standard corporate tax rate is 12.5% for any company grossing under a billion and 15% for any company grossing over a billion which Google and plenty of other companies are paying. This year alone the Irish tax revenue taken from multinationals was 14 billion. The British corporate tax rate is 19% which is not much higher and Britain has plenty of tax havens like the Channel Islands, Caymen Islands, and British Virgin Islands, plus cleaning dirty money in London. And not a penny of that goes into British pockets. If you understand what I'm saying you'll understand why the British even got a vote to leave the EU. Either way, Ireland is cleaning up with Big Tech and Big Pharma providing money and well-paying jobs and we'll take our cut. And they won't be moving anytime soon because there is no place better than Ireland in the EU to move too.
By the use of the word Eire you do not know very much about Ireland. If you did know anything about Ireland you would not use that term. I hope you are not a right wing tory brexiter. I had an online discussion with someone of that ilk recently and he insisted that Ireland's biggest export was agriculture!!!!!
@@raymonddixon7603 sorry for using the wrong word and I admit my knowledge of the island of Ireland is indeed limited. I don't support any aspect of brexit, voted against it, and the current UK government is disgusting as far as I'm concerned. I still think though that there is a two tier economy in the Republic and that many people are not benefitting from the GDP growth.
@@derekdempsey8506 is it? so i just dont pay bills or have child? go away will you judging by your age you didnt have this issue. people could buy a house on a years salary. its not the 60s anymore dorothy
Do explain, please. I'm a citizen of Poblacht na hÉireann/The Republic of Ireland, and at my venerable age I certainly don't play football despite what it says on my passport.
@@ardakolimsky7107 An bhfuil sé ar intinn agat ceacht a thabhairt dom faoi mo thír féin? Bheadh áthas orm glacadh le sin ach amháin trí mheán na Gaeilge. Beir bua!
@@xotan Just because you're a citizen of a country doesn't give you the ability to rewrite its laws or constitution. There is no such country as the Republic of Ireland. There is ÉIRE or IRELAND The state can be identified as the ROI, but that is not its name. Perhaps you should check out your own governments most recent statements on the matter. By the way, my wife (who is an actual gaelgeóir says you speak Irish like a tan...whatever that means)
Do you remember the keltic tiger And the big bail out. Always remember that I love Ireland I only want it always To continue its success watch the Population growth housing farming Produce stability
You have nailed the type of country Ireland has become. Hate speech laws being brought in by our woke politicians to shutdown discussion and protests. Without freedom of speech, money is no good. Big pharma is given very low or near zero tax rates. We had the craziest lockdowns and restrictions over the past 3 years. Open borders, no housing for the native Irish homeless, high rents. Large companies might be doing ok but for the ordinary individual life is not good. This is just the usual self-congratulatory, we’re doing great type of talk. We heard the same talk before the 2008 crash. At present the paper (money) notes are madly being printed, driving up inflation. The €10 note we have in our pocket is just an IOU being exchanged around, like a Ponzi scheme and the crash will inevitably come, as is the usual cycle. Everything sounds so smug with this discussion.
Speaking as an ordinary worker who lives in Ireland having spent about half my life abroad, your claim that "Its an absolute misery" can only be described as horse shit, hot and steaming.....
But I would be interested to know how much of Ireland success was caused by the Irish themselves or by being able to offer ext low corporation tax as an incentive to foreign firms to set up there paid for by EU cash ? Genuine question.
"People where more happy years ago"? No, they most definitely were NOT. I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. Ireland was dog poor, ignorant, and close to a failed state. It was a grey, boring place which marched in a Catholic lockstep. And it was a simply HORRIBLE place if you were female. "Everyone says it's going stupid now..."? Care to provide some, or indeed ANY, evidence for that utterly daft claim? I'll wait..... "...time for change"? The country has changed amazingly, for the better, since we joined the EEC back in 1973......
If the Republic of Ireland is so great why is out-migration such a problem in the more remote regions of the republic and why do so many of its citizens visit Northern Ireland to access the lower cost of living available there. The working classes get no benefit from its leprechaun economic model while the multi nationals and rich get even richer.
@@memisemyself "Are the Brits preparing for another go at it?" Given that the British Army is at its smallest since the Acts of Union of 1707, I hardly think so....🤣🤣 The racist calling him/herself 'mitchmitchell' is just recycling Farage's paranoid ravings.
"We are up to our tonsils in debt thanks to the incompetence of successive governments"? No, we are simply NOT "...up to our tonsils in debt..." Ireland's Debt/GDP ratio is LESS THAN HALF that of the UK's, and is falling very quickly. The Irish Debt/GDP ratio is forecast to decrease from 44.7% in 2022 to 40.4% in 2023, and 38.3% in 2024. In the UK, the 2022 Debt/GDP was estimated to be 100.6%, and is forecast to RISE to 103.1% in 2023 "He's talking shite"? No, he is talking facts and statistics. You, on the other hand, are most definitely "...talking shite", fresh and steaming!
What about ALCOHOLISM in Ireland? A longstanding problem. And a taboo subject. Are you sure it's "one of the best countries in the world"? Not forgetting its obscurantist Catholic Church, and its historic abuse and corruption.
I am Irish and I agree with you. Irish neutrality was a political necessity during WWII. It wasn't even real then as Ireland was completely on the Allies side. It is a nonsense now, we should join NATO and pay our way.
As a child from the sixties, I remember growing up with no bathroom, no heating, throwing heavy coats on my bed in the winter to keep warm. leaving school at fifteen to find work. To be honest I had a good childhood because everyone was in the same boat and we didn't know any differently, so we just got on with things. I 've lived in France now for twenty years and I love getting home and when i see the transformation I'm amazed and deeply proud. When I see so many people wanting to come and live in Ireland, I see it a huge positive because for so long we exported our youth and best educated. No society is perfect, no matter how rich it is, and Ireland has its problems, but sometimes we need to reflect on our dark and impoverished past in order to give ourselves a slap on the back and say: you know what, we're not a bad little country.
I'm Irish and proud of it. I want to live in Ireland, but economics and government policies are holding me back. Erin go bragh.
Scotland is the best wee country in the world…except for Ireland.
You could be describing Bill Clinton's home as well in the US?
@@Snick3927 according to the Romans, Scotland was Ireland
People coming to live in Ireland?
Where?
Everything about Ireland is utterly fantastic EXCEPT THE STATE OF MY WORKING CLASS BANK BALANCE.
Never good to blow your own trumpet but it’s been guaranteed to bring out the bitterness. You can always point out issues in every country but in comparison Ireland has done phenomenally well in the last number of decades.
Rich EU countries like the UK propped up all the poorer countries ,that's why the majority voted to leave the EU
@@ellismeah8110 The UK gained way more out of the EU than they had to put in. Leaving was crazy. And in terms of putting money in the idea is to bring the newer entrants up to speed until they too get strong enough to become net contributors and the load is spread more making the whole EU even stronger. Ireland would be a good case in point for this.
@jmo8934 I believe that the average UK voter didn't understand the workings of the EU and how it contributed to, for example, capital projects. They'll be the poorer for it without doubt. I work in Rural Development her in Ireland and without doubt, financial contributions from the EU, from differing pots, have changed our economic development for the better.
@@EMMYK1916ROI is not a net contributer....that's why yiu feel you are getting something out if it. Wait until.the orbdulym swings and physiologically you start to think the EU is taking the p!ss....that and uncontrolled immigration which I see ROI are starting to protest against. Ironically now I further see the EU are wanting to limit immigration and control the borders.....10 - 15 years too late. Glad we are out and not looking for any arguments, this is not about being bitter. ROI have benefited, fair play...let's see when the pendulum swings as it will do.
When you go out to dinner in Ireland or when you have a meal in any pub or restaurant, you are literally enjoying the best available food in the world. There is nowhere in the world that can offer any better than you can find in Ireland.
not sure about that .. i think spain / italy / japan have excellent quality food
Drivir2616 are you having a laugh the description good food and Ireland do not go together. On average everything is over cooked and thrown on a plate like someone doing his best to make an abstract painting without success. If you want really good food go to France Spain Portugal and or Italy
ps and when you finally get the bill in Ireland you feel you have bought an abstract painting
@@miakeogh6844 : I’ve eaten out all across the US, most EU nations and some non EU nations in Europe and as far afield as China. I still contend that Ireland has very few competitors in the field of food preparation and service except perhaps for Italy.
@@miakeogh6844 Your obviously eating in some Dublin inner city shit hole bud
Our four Grans came to Boston about the 1930's or so. I catch myself sorry they did so till I remember they sought a better life for their families. I love to think we'll have a grand reunion there someday.
I am aged 84 and have lived in dublin all my life save for 2 years with PwC in Paris in 1962 /64. I have watched ireland grow all my life and my 4 grandchildren start professional careers. It started with ken whittakers first programme for economic expansion in 1959 followed by OMalleys free secondary education.a few years later. Read Whittakers document and list the beneficial outcomes from his ideas all promoted by Lemass. David mccabe dublin
A great read - not from cover to cover but dip in every now and then. We have indeed done very well and we are a very different country to the one I was born into in the 1950s. The book does not set out to offer opinion but rather compiles various reports from official agencies and statistics to reflect our attainment in a number of areas, education, health, etc. across the years. The writing is far from complex and the supporting statistics are presented in charts that everyone is familiar with from school. A great marker of our social, economic, political and most importantly, our psychological development as a nation. Yup! We have done very well. A book that's well worth having.
I agree. I was born in 1949. I marvel at the transformation of Ireland. In 1960 the population of the Republic was just over 2.8 million. In the 1950s 50,000 to 100,000 of our people emigrated every year. Articles were written about "the vanishing Irish". Small farmers lived barely above subsistence level. There were slum tenements only yards from O'Connell Street. And it was a fairly cruel society with brutal reformatories and mother and baby homes among other things. Since the 60s the trajectory has been upwards. Of course there were setbacks along the way but the country we live in now, for all its problems (to be alive is to have problems), is enormously improved on what it was.
Look at all the boomers with their smug self satisfaction…. Their legacy ….. where young Irish couples , who did everything the right way , put the head down at school, both getting a job, diligently saved … and still can’t afford a reasonable house to start a family.
Then the boomers decide to open the borders to unchecked mass immigration because the younger generations aren’t having enough children….. oh yes …and give the housing away to the foreigners….. because they don’t want to be called racist!😖😖
The generation that destroyed our nation for their future generations.
'We're BRRRRRRILLiant!'!
The most attractive proposition to bring about a United Ireland is a highly prosperous and tolerant country.
@@aaronbrown545 an interesting and valid point and much better than the coercive stance towards the Unionist community
After 300 years of British domination and degradation (culturally, economically etc) it’s good to see the Irish succeeding. Thank you to the EU for setting us up for this current state of wellness and prosperity.
You're joking surely?! Thank you to the EU?! You're deluded
Joke? Now the EU are busy flooding the country with illegal no passports economic migrants whereas the real Irish are treated as second class citizens behind no passport migrants. This country is a joke, no freedom, protests heavily policed and woke ideology being promoted by Government, civil and public servants, sex education and puberty blockers being taught and encouraged to very young children by the NTO and the HSE. When Trump offers better tax term to the US companies and the tech industry, what have we left - our industry, fishing water, oil and gas either taken by the EU or given away. And then we are left with - our gombeen grasping politicians, 30,000 NGOs and the rest of the teat suckers.
The fisheries worth € trillions, has been given away, with 5.25 trillion parts of micro plastic in the seas, with cholera virus attached, the seas and life in it, and all that depends on it, could soon end.
@@usandusonly32
Our membership of the EEC/EC/EU was THE major factor in the utterly AMAZING transformation of Ireland's economy, culture, society and general wellbeing.
"Thank you to the EU?!"
Most definitely YES!
By the way, the proportion of Irish people who would vote to leave the EU is smaller than the margin of error of the regular Red-C polls.....
.......and thank god there was a Brexit deal (good or bad) otherwise Merkel the then unelected EU leader was preparing to throw Ireland under the next bus.
There is so much to argue with in this...... corruption in the planning process has been endemic for half a century going back to Section 4 of the then planning act around 1970 which allowed political councillors overturn planning decisions and convert agricultural land into development land multiplying its value by a factor of 10 in the greater Dublin area at the time. The resulting mess is everywhere to see. Our legal system was something we inherited from Britain and was unfit for purpose from Day 1. Still is. As in the UK, private property is sanctified by law and property rights trump everything else. Which leads us to Europe's worst housing problem, something which this government, like all its predecessory without exception, resolutely fail to deal with adequately. There is so so much more but this "We're a great little country" bullshit butters no parsnips with me.
If property rights are “sanctified” how come the property called the family home literally the roof over your head is Taxed in other words you pay tax for the privilege of having a roof over your head. If property is sanctified how come the government can dictate how much rent you can charge, how long you can rent for to whom you can rent to and under what circumstances you can get “your” property back? Why have all the landlords got to hell out of the rental market abandoning it to the corporate vulture funds? You can’t even let out a room in your house to tourists without planning permission from the Marxist government. Tell me again about these sanctified property rights? You sound like someone who has no property and are divorced from the reality of owning property.
Where would development land come from if not from farming land ?
@@sarahann530 Yes, it comes from agriculturally zoned land. That is not the problem. The problem is the brown-envelope-fuelled "economy" surrounding the rezoning of this land.
@@97henrik041 So how do you suggest farming land be rezoned into development land which is needed to build houses, factories etc ? Does one councillor control the rezoning or is it put before a planning committee?
I'll tell you what's even more disturbing is a good chunk of the Irish people are on board with MSM or woke brigade and it's all about running with the narrative so the mindset is different now and I don't like it one bit. Basically everything now is agenda driven 🤮
The thing about the MNCs is that a large slice of the taxes is free money and by that I mean there is no public expenditure needed to earn it as the MNCs are not consuming any public infrastructure and so income taxes would be higher or services would be reduced without it.
If only ff fg never existed what a country we would be, remember ray bourke gave away all our oil reserveres for free! probably trillions of euros shell get for free and still drilling only in Ireland.
What oil reserves?
@johnkilcullen all our offshore oil reserves in our ecominic zone shell have been drilling for over 30 years all for free!
@@_alienblood and found nothing viable. Anyway, thanks to the Greens, the exploration companies are not allowed now to develop the gas fields that were found.
Yae , ray was a bit of a bollox.
@alienblood alienblood What oil reserves has all this free drilling discovered. None Zada Zilsch.We discovered a couple of minor gas fields, Kinsale and Corrib that's it. There just isn't a north sea off our west coast unfortunately.
We are also the most helpful country in the world according to a Ted talk I saw.
By The way I like The guiness stout served in authur guiness factory
12 year olds boys and girl smoking vape and doing cocaine. Hooligans stealing stores 24h a day, rampant alcoholism, homeless people everywhere, a severr home crisis that is driving a lot of natives out. I spent 8 months there.
Get your facts straight. Ireland has a very low crime rate.
@@PanglossDr Really?? What part of Ireland are you living in??
@@MsRustynuts I deal in facts, not opinions or what it says in the papers.
@@PanglossDr stop talking shit. You don't even live here. I do , and we're at the stage where its not safe in your own home and we're not safe walking through a town during the day let alone at night
😂😂😂 12 year old boys & girls doing cocaine.
Where exactly were you living?
Sounds like a good book, sick of listen to the victim mentality. Another good read if you like this is Rational Optimist, by Matt Ridley
Wynns Hotel reputed to be the ' priests hotel' back in the day !
Go on, please share the ol'goss 😉
My foot Used to visit ten years ago On The opposite of Dublin city River bad hats drug addicts drunkards Hope that is bygone
Because of the two tier economy Irish people are not benefitting from the high GDP. Multinationals are funnelling money through Eire because of the tax strategy but it's not getting into Irish pockets. Most of the people working for Google are not Irish.
I'm glad Eire is doing so well on those other measures.
While I agree with you generally about the two tier system, I think you're equating individual wealth to common wealth. Ireland is on course to produce a financial surplus of €16Bn this year. (only heard today on radio, so we'll see if its true) If we get our act together, and let's be honest, we should invest it in things that benefit everyone! (with an emphasis on those less well off!) whatever they're doing, we're far wealthier now than we were even before the crash in 2008, up until which, FF gave away money like snuff at a wedding. (to individuals) Maybe they're being a bit more circumspect now. There does seem to be more investment in social services, and if so, this will benefit everyone. (I work in social services, so can see it happening in real time) Regardless of this, there'll be plenty of coffers in the tank for the next government to make an impact on the housing problems, which won't be a FG & FF arrangement
what is Eire? There is no such place.
It is a term frequently used offensively by brits for Ireland.
Let's get this straight Jonathan. The official name for this island is Ireland if you are speaking English. If you are speaking Irish you can refer to the Island as Éire. There is no Island called Eire in the English language.
For your information 10% of the Irish workforce work in Big Tech and Big Pharma and they are in high-positioned jobs as well. The standard corporate tax rate is 12.5% for any company grossing under a billion and 15% for any company grossing over a billion which Google and plenty of other companies are paying. This year alone the Irish tax revenue taken from multinationals was 14 billion. The British corporate tax rate is 19% which is not much higher and Britain has plenty of tax havens like the Channel Islands, Caymen Islands, and British Virgin Islands, plus cleaning dirty money in London. And not a penny of that goes into British pockets. If you understand what I'm saying you'll understand why the British even got a vote to leave the EU. Either way, Ireland is cleaning up with Big Tech and Big Pharma providing money and well-paying jobs and we'll take our cut. And they won't be moving anytime soon because there is no place better than Ireland in the EU to move too.
By the use of the word Eire you do not know very much about Ireland. If you did know anything about Ireland you would not use that term. I hope you are not a right wing tory brexiter. I had an online discussion with someone of that ilk recently and he insisted that Ireland's biggest export was agriculture!!!!!
@@raymonddixon7603 sorry for using the wrong word and I admit my knowledge of the island of Ireland is indeed limited. I don't support any aspect of brexit, voted against it, and the current UK government is disgusting as far as I'm concerned. I still think though that there is a two tier economy in the Republic and that many people are not benefitting from the GDP growth.
great country but incredibly expensive
im nearly 40, in a very good job over 3X the average salary and i will probably never own a home in ireland
Your situation maybe in relation to your savings and not your salary
@@derekdempsey8506 no it's related to over 4k a month in rent+childcare 🤭
@Michael James childcare is your own issue Michael your earing 3 times more than the average person even...that's easy do able
@@derekdempsey8506 is it? so i just dont pay bills or have child? go away will you
judging by your age you didnt have this issue. people could buy a house on a years salary. its not the 60s anymore dorothy
Buy a nice boat,
Republic of Ireland is not a country.
That's a football team.
Do explain, please.
I'm a citizen of Poblacht na hÉireann/The Republic of Ireland, and at my venerable age I certainly don't play football despite what it says on my passport.
@@xotan Check your passport.
I bet is says Éire / Ireland
@@xotan The name of the country is Ireland. The description of the country is a republic.
@@ardakolimsky7107 An bhfuil sé ar intinn agat ceacht a thabhairt dom faoi mo thír féin? Bheadh áthas orm glacadh le sin ach amháin trí mheán na Gaeilge. Beir bua!
@@xotan Just because you're a citizen of a country doesn't give you the ability to rewrite its laws or constitution.
There is no such country as the Republic of Ireland.
There is ÉIRE or IRELAND
The state can be identified as the ROI, but that is not its name.
Perhaps you should check out your own governments most recent statements on the matter.
By the way, my wife (who is an actual gaelgeóir says you speak Irish like a tan...whatever that means)
Do you remember the keltic tiger
And the big bail out.
Always remember that
I love Ireland I only want it always
To continue its success watch the
Population growth housing farming
Produce stability
And the pale in the North one of the worst
Try actually living in Ireland as an ordinary worker and not as a woke NGO/media/political class. Its an absolute misery.
You have nailed the type of country Ireland has become. Hate speech laws being brought in by our woke politicians to shutdown discussion and protests. Without freedom of speech, money is no good. Big pharma is given very low or near zero tax rates. We had the craziest lockdowns and restrictions over the past 3 years. Open borders, no housing for the native Irish homeless, high rents. Large companies might be doing ok but for the ordinary individual life is not good. This is just the usual self-congratulatory, we’re doing great type of talk. We heard the same talk before the 2008 crash. At present the paper (money) notes are madly being printed, driving up inflation. The €10 note we have in our pocket is just an IOU being exchanged around, like a Ponzi scheme and the crash will inevitably come, as is the usual cycle. Everything sounds so smug with this discussion.
Speaking as an ordinary worker who lives in Ireland having spent about half my life abroad, your claim that "Its an absolute misery" can only be described as horse shit, hot and steaming.....
Of course it is. That's why all those people for abroad come to live here and stay. We're so much worse than eastern Europe, Africa and South America.
Supportive of everyone thru the cost of living crisis?
What's he on about?
As a tax payer who's single i get feck all. If i didn't work i would
But I would be interested to know how much of Ireland success was caused by the Irish themselves or by being able to offer ext low corporation tax as an incentive to foreign firms to set up there paid for by EU cash ? Genuine question.
Other countries have lower tax are not English speaking or in the EU.
People where more happy years ago. Everyone says it's going stupid now, time for change.
"People where more happy years ago"?
No, they most definitely were NOT.
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ireland was dog poor, ignorant, and close to a failed state.
It was a grey, boring place which marched in a Catholic lockstep.
And it was a simply HORRIBLE place if you were female.
"Everyone says it's going stupid now..."?
Care to provide some, or indeed ANY, evidence for that utterly daft claim?
I'll wait.....
"...time for change"?
The country has changed amazingly, for the better, since we joined the EEC back in 1973......
Maybe that's now the go to place for millions of migrants wanting an Irish passport
If the Republic of Ireland is so great why is out-migration such a problem in the more remote regions of the republic and why do so many of its citizens visit Northern Ireland to access the lower cost of living available there. The working classes get no benefit from its leprechaun economic model while the multi nationals and rich get even richer.
Just a quick trip down for the whingin then ......... ?
No migrants influx😂
Be no coffee for me at Wynn,s today 450 A cup.
To quote Mark Twain, a serious case of 'lies, damn lies and statistics
Top comment Richard.
Unfortunately give it 5 years now Ireland will be ruined due to an invasion
Utter bollocks!
Are the Brits preparing for another go at it?
@@memisemyself pmsl, omg
@@memisemyself
"Are the Brits preparing for another go at it?"
Given that the British Army is at its smallest since the Acts of Union of 1707, I hardly think so....🤣🤣
The racist calling him/herself 'mitchmitchell' is just recycling Farage's paranoid ravings.
@@gloin10 My comment wasn't intended to be taken seriously. The OP mentioned an invasion, I was poking fun at it.
We are up to our tonsils in debt thanks to the incompetence of successive governments. He's talking shite.
€ 300 billion and rising.
"We are up to our tonsils in debt thanks to the incompetence of successive governments"?
No, we are simply NOT "...up to our tonsils in debt..."
Ireland's Debt/GDP ratio is LESS THAN HALF that of the UK's, and is falling very quickly.
The Irish Debt/GDP ratio is forecast to decrease from 44.7% in 2022 to 40.4% in 2023, and 38.3% in 2024.
In the UK, the 2022 Debt/GDP was estimated to be 100.6%, and is forecast to RISE to 103.1% in 2023
"He's talking shite"?
No, he is talking facts and statistics.
You, on the other hand, are most definitely "...talking shite", fresh and steaming!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 really ?????? We emigrated to Australia better jobs, society and work life balance. We wouldn't go home if you'd pay us
Exactly, this video is complete garbage. I'm an Irish expat in a developing country and would never live in Ireland again.
You'll be giving up your Irish citizenship then.
Don't you allowed dual cit
papering over the cracks..... did Bord Faite produce this nonsense?.
When you speak the Anglo language, rather than the Irish language, little progress has been made, this is about denial.
Yes and it is all built on debt ,talk about deluded
Its ashamed of its own beautiful language
What about ALCOHOLISM in Ireland?
A longstanding problem. And a taboo subject. Are you sure it's "one of the best countries in the world"? Not forgetting its obscurantist Catholic Church, and its historic abuse and corruption.
Rubbish. Doesn't even pay it's way in defence. Off the back of the rest of the EU 27.....that's for starters
jealoussssssssss
Defence from who?
It's a neutral country not a member of NATO and feels no need to spend much on Defence. Their choice.
I am Irish and I agree with you. Irish neutrality was a political necessity during WWII. It wasn't even real then as Ireland was completely on the Allies side.
It is a nonsense now, we should join NATO and pay our way.
This clown has to brit thick as to short planks and votes Tory with bad teeth.
Its ashamed of its own beautiful language