A couple of stats. Yes our housing is a mess, and I’m from Dublin now living in London ten years (Irish shocker), and – frankly – I’d bleed for the NHS but:
Income inequality has risen in most high-income countries over the past 30 years. Ireland is one of the exceptions.
The question should be asked in the broader debate more often as to why inequality has fallen in Ireland while rising in most of our peers.
So, what do we know? pic.twitter.com/kSlJaSfQ0B
— Seamus Coffey (@seamuscoffey) October 19, 2020
Ireland exhibits a model of brilliant industrial strategy here. Not just the tax rate, but skills, market access, organisational help- https://t.co/SuU01wFuth Imagine if the UK had followed the same course pic.twitter.com/a4OoinRIzJ
— Giles Wilkes (@Gilesyb) August 27, 2023
Oh, and I almost forgot: here is a custom version with Ireland highlighted, to appease the great and powerful @davidmcw 🙏🙇 pic.twitter.com/g5aZhJ8a0o
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) September 16, 2022
The Irish republic by nature has a tonne of social cohesion with relative wealth somewhat curtailed and you guys would have massive, massive say. Plus fully devolved Stormont if you thought that was smart? If I were protestant I’d go straight at the Dáil personally. You wouldn’t believe what PR can do. Anyway. Food for thought as it were. All those stats can be picked apart, but Belfast as second city engine and the region as untapped engine is what it is.
Cork would completely freak out mind you.
by swimtwobird
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Cork can fuck up, its barely bigger than Derry ffs.
Stormont deosnt work now…..what makes you think it’ll work under Dublin oversight?
It was an interesting concept,but it’ll never work to a functional level
Belfast is way better than Cork, and I’m from Cork.