“A country might justify that position if it used the proceeds to build something (anything!) like world-class public services, extraordinary infrastructure, or a society so well-functioning that the trade-off had a visible return. Ireland did… None of this. It extracted from others and failed to build anything for itself. That is the uniquely disgraceful aspect of the Irish model; not the extraction alone, but the total nothingnessthat followed it. The nothingness we live in.”

This is so spot on.

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Mind the Gap

Ireland is the second richest country in Europe, and this week a single protest shut it down. Here's why.

^{Sinéad O’Sullivan (But This Time It's Different)}