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    Irlanda non è un paese “veramente ricco”, secondo l’economista

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    2. Fluffy-Republic8610 on

      Agreed. This is not worth a headline. No one ever argued it was.

    5. El_McKell on

      Headline misleading, the economist says whether or not Ireland is a rich country cannot be determined using the metric they applied. “Not truly rich” and ‘we don’t know if they are truly rich are two very different things.’

    6. 1993blah on

      Being successful for a short period of time isn’t enough to make a country ‘rich’

    7. ShapeyFiend on

      Saying it’s not truly rich if you didn’t bother to try ranking it is a bit silly. Luxembourg is obviously pretty well off also.

    8. ruthemook on

      Never thought the economist would be the one to call us out as ‘non-U’.

    10. countpissedoff on

      Ok – let’s be honest here – are we richer than Bulgaria? Barundi? Yes we are, by any metric you choose – are we richer than Portugal? Yes and so on and so on… we are a rich country. Is everyone rich? No but that’s the case in every country but we have excellent social supports, decent infrastructure and a functional (if troubled, like most) free health service. If we could stop wallowing in our misery for a second we would realise that being left out of this list is just the economist avoiding comparing the UK unfavourably with Ireland

    11. pgasmaddict on

      We ain’t. We are like a guy who earns a pile of money working at his father in laws firm (our FIL being the USA) but blows it all every month on an expensive lifestyle and is two paychecks or a divorce away from being broke.

    12. MooseKick4 on

      Leprechaun Economics makes it sound like a joke, but it’s not. GDP numbers are shooting up while people’s actual quality of life is falling off a cliff. These so-called wealth indexes don’t mean anything on the ground, they just hide how rough things really are for ordinary people in Ireland.

    13. 4Jade4Once4 on

      I mean, the Swiss cost of living makes us look rich… except we don’t actually have their salaries. 🤓😵‍💫

    15. leavemealonethanks on

      We are like the lad who won the lottery and spent all partying then had to become a bin man again.

      Please stop voting FF/FG

    16. TheLastManetheren on

      Nonsense! We all know Ireland is the richest country in the world as its capital is always Doublin’.

    17. yoshiea on

      They are so jealous independent Ireland is doing so well. The Economist has form of dissing Ireland going back years. They can’t quite get over Ireland does so well outside the UK (I know, it is 2025 and we still have this). It is the same mentality Russia has with Ukraine, belittle the former colony.

      This is not to say Ireland has no problems. We do. Our government needs to do a hell of a lot better. But in comparison to the UK and other European countries we are definitely a rich country doing well.

    18. 1andahalfpercent on

      Anyone with the data be able to rank us based on both GDP and GNI*

    20. Spare-Buy-8864 on

      Of course this sub gobbles up a bullshit article like this as long as it projects some sweet sweet misery porn.

      If it stated the opposite all the replies would immediately shoot it down as fake news

    23. qwerty_1965 on

      I was just listening to an economist on Newstalk, he sounded very hurt by the article.

      Ireland’s wealth feels increasingly illusory. No point in having billions stuffed under the mattress if the roof has a hole in it.

    24. Primary-Effect-3691 on

      Responses here show how out of touch we are.

      Threshold for a high income country is about 13k gdp per capita.

      We obviously have problems around cost of living, inflation, housing, etc.

      But anyone who thinks Ireland isn’t rich hasn’t been outside our very cushy corner of Western Europe 

    25. RobotIcHead on

      We are not ‘truly rich’ but we are not poor, failed or anything like that either. We are a small country and so many of those metrics are calculated for bigger countries. Those figures/calculations have always had flaws, it is why the CSO doesn’t relay on GDP.

    27. DesertRatboy on

      The Economist recently had a cover story about how summer holidays are why Europe will never be a superpower so I’d take what they say with a large dollop of salt tbh

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