Day: 1 January 2025

Ireland in the 1980s was backward, poor and stagnant. Some politicians want to bring us back there

From the beginning of January 1973, Ireland was a member state of the EEC. But for the following decade we were in the throes of despair. By the mid-1980s, Ireland was being crippled by political violence, mass emigration, mass unemployment, political paralysis and a sense of hopelessness. Sometimes it is worthwhile recalling the failed structure of the Irish economy […]