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> Ireland is doing well as a country in GDP terms (ignoring debt) but the people in the mid and lower tiers don't necessarily do well at all.

Compared to what? Certainly not the Ireland of 25 years ago.

> It's increasingly classist and it has bad and inefficient healthcare, lack of police, excessive bureocracy and lack of political change due to an entrenched political class.

The only country in the EU where wealth inequality is decreasing, which has a struggling healthcare system but world-class outcomes, once of the least bureaucratic countries in the world, and which has a stable democracy which is about to undergo a completely peaceful transfer of power when Sinn Féin comes into power following the next election.

I can only say that if you believe what you've written about Ireland, you simply don't have the perspective to comment on this.

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Compared to today. Compared to 5 years ago. Compared to 15 years ago.

Citation needed and the "peaceful transition" is laughable as a selling point. Is the bar so low? Lol.

It'll be grand land has yet another defender that wants people to not rock the boat and attacks anyone who showcases how backwards thing are. Talk to a real person and not one who has their life easily laid out...

Perspective, huh? Shame on your disingenuous response.

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> Compared to today. Compared to 5 years ago. Compared to 15 years ago.

So your contention is that Ireland hasn't improved since 2018 or 2003? For almost everyone in almost every category, that is not true.

> Citation needed and the "peaceful transition" is laughable as a selling point. Is the bar so low? Lol.

No, the bar is very high as Ireland is one of the top tier countries in the world to live by almost any measure. That was a direct response to your claim of a "lack of political change due to an entrenched political class", which is patently untrue in Ireland.

> It'll be grand land has yet another defender that wants people to not rock the boat and attacks anyone who showcases how backwards thing are.

Ireland is certainly not perfect. I work in the medical field and am constantly frustrated at the medical and social services. However, I've also worked around the world and know that while Ireland is in fact an outlier, it's a positive outlier compared to even the developed world.

> Talk to a real person and not one who has their life easily laid out...

I do, daily, and not only online. The kind of disingenuous negativity you hold is not common.

> Perspective, huh? Shame on your disingenuous response.

The irony is palpable. Luckily those of us working to improve the country aren't discouraged by those on the sidelines offering only empty critiques.

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> No, the bar is very high as Ireland is one of the top tier countries in the world to live by almost any measure

Like healthcare? Lol. What a disingenuous piece of manure.

> "lack of political change due to an entrenched political class", which is patently untrue in Ireland

You just claim it's untrue but offer no actual arguments. Your rabid offended defense of the country speaks volumes.

> work in the medical field and am constantly frustrated at the medical and social services.

DING DING DING. there it is. That's why you're offended. You're a crook who is part of the problem and has no perspective.

> However, I've also worked around the world and know that while Ireland is in fact an outlier, it's a positive outlier compared to even the developed world.

I like how you don't even say where.

> he irony is palpable. Luckily those of us working to improve the country aren't discouraged by those on the sidelines offering only empty critiques

My critiques weren't empty. They were poignant and your defenses were "no, lie". Kid level stuff and clearly very entrenched in maintain your current thing going.

You're part of the problem. I'm not surprised you'd defend it as such. It's very easy for people who benefit from the corruption and bureocracy to want to keep it going. Healthcare in Ireland is one of the biggest and worst scams in the country and the only way to paint in a good light is to compare it to the US, which is the go to tactic.

Shame on you for being willfully blind to the realities of people not well off because you're in on it.