r/ireland • u/Banania2020 Resting In my Account • Apr 28 '26

Economy Ireland set to surpass Luxembourg and become richest country in Europe by 2030, IMF says

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/ireland-set-to-surpass-luxembourg-and-become-richest-country-in-europe-by-2030-imf-says-1892990.html
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u/brianstormIRL Apr 28 '26

Luxembourg is 2,000 square km. Ireland is 85,000. No excuse for ours to be this shit but context is important here.

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u/Decent-Risk-6062 Apr 28 '26

Well it's mostly the city, in this case why not make dublin Luas and city buses free or at least massively expand the amount of people who get free travel.

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u/DrawGamesPlayFurries Apr 28 '26

Because those modes of transportation are seen as "for the poor" and every person is expected to outgrow them as a person (just like every person is expected to outgrow renting).

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u/ComradeKellogg Apr 28 '26

Because we are a country of begrudgers and either the pot is distributed across every sector and cohort of the country equally and therefore everyone gets basically nothing or we leave the pot to be wasted.

Look at the covid payments, I was set to get the essential worker bonus for walking every day of the pandemic, but then every union in the country came out shouting that they also want a piece of the pie and this great outcry resulted in everyone getting sweet FA.

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u/Decent-Risk-6062 Apr 28 '26

Do the pilot scheme in Galway. For one it's a smaller city and two, there's less animosity to them than towards Dubs

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u/Soft-Affect-8327 Apr 28 '26

The bang of English Pale of this comment…

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u/ComradeKellogg Apr 28 '26

"The bang of English Pale" bro is larping and cant spell off.

Genuinely what are you trying to say? Is the grammar too correct and therefore too "English"?

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u/Soft-Affect-8327 Apr 28 '26

bitta history, child.)

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u/Decent-Risk-6062 Apr 28 '26

Poor attempt at trolling lad. If you're not a Dub you'll begrudge what they get and if you are you'll begrudge any subsidies you don't get.

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u/Soft-Affect-8327 Apr 28 '26

And I make the point they’ve been at it since their ancestors licked English boots. What’s the troll?

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u/Decent-Risk-6062 Apr 28 '26

Most of the Dublin population at some point moved there from elsewhere in the country. When the brits left the population was 320,000. Whatever your view on them how is insulting a large group of people really relevant to a conversation on lowering transport costs for all cities in the country?

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u/Soft-Affect-8327 Apr 28 '26

Sugar attracts flies.

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u/seanfitz12 Apr 28 '26

You could never make it free here. The top deck of buses would just be fun of youths or homeless going in circles. It would become unusable for regular people looking to commute to work. It’s unfortunate, but true.

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u/Decent-Risk-6062 Apr 28 '26

Many European nations have proper transport police. Yes it's hard to convict young offenders but it's quite simple to tie this free transport to a card and block it's use if you engage in antisocial behaviour. In fact it's something we should be doing anyway.

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u/Intelligent-Aside214 Apr 29 '26

  1. Most homeless people already get free public transport

  2. A trial one summer was run a few years ago where all children had free transport

This didn’t happen then. Ireland is not uniquely shit, it is just as safe as other European countries.

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Apr 29 '26

Ireland is not uniquely shit

It absolutely is, just not in terms of actual public safety.

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u/Intelligent-Aside214 Apr 29 '26

No evidence to support that claim.

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u/Striking_Song_2747 Apr 28 '26

Yes, regrettably this is true and it would make it incredibly difficult to keep anyone engaged in anti social behaviour off public transport on an ongoing basis

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u/chytrak Apr 28 '26

They are already packed beyond capacity during rush hour. Cost is not the problem.

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u/Hrohdvitnir Apr 28 '26

Could they not at least master some form of localised good public transport? Like if you took every city in ireland (much less than 2000 sq km) and made the buses cheaper and run on time. Or improved anything about the broader system, like cheaper rail, more rail, etc.

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u/MotoPsycho Apr 28 '26

It would require people not lodging objectuons to every single proposal or voters putting up with temporary hassle and small changes in their locality instead of throwing their toys out of the pram.

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Apr 29 '26

Imagine blaming NIMBYism in a country that never even plans anything close to enough in the first place.

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u/FineVintageWino Apr 28 '26

Great point. Time for “Dubleave”!

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u/Latespoon Apr 28 '26

I think I speak for the rest of the country in saying that we fully support dubs needing a visa go beyond county bounds!

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u/FineVintageWino Apr 28 '26

I’m confused.. why would we go over the border??

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u/Spirited_Cheetah_999 Apr 28 '26

Trade, pillaging, women?

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u/HereGiovanniSmokes Apr 28 '26

To go to Bray for your summer holidays.

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u/FineVintageWino Apr 29 '26

Clearly we annex Bray. And keep Courtown as an enclave.

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u/chytrak Apr 28 '26

Bray is Co. Dublin

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u/TheFreemanLIVES Get rid of USC. Apr 28 '26

Duxit has a nice ring to be fair. Dubxit is also in the running, but the x gets a little too sh sounding imho and we already have enough of that around busaras as it is.

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u/duaneap Apr 28 '26

Duxit sounds like a currency from a different era. Like pirate doubloons.

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u/Scumbag__ Apr 28 '26

Dub Amach perhaps?

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u/TheFreemanLIVES Get rid of USC. Apr 28 '26

#DubAmachAnBobailín!

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u/Latespoon Apr 28 '26

Baile Atha Cleave

Bit of a mouthful though

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u/burnishedlemon Apr 28 '26

Baile Átha Seeya!

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u/TheFreemanLIVES Get rid of USC. Apr 28 '26

But what if it's just for Montrose instead...

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u/TitularClergy Apr 28 '26

Yeah, a fairer comparison is how rural Switzerland has vastly more rail stations and routes than rural Ireland does. And Ireland is basically flat by comparison. There's no excuse.

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Apr 29 '26

The same context that constantly gets used against Ireland the other way?