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    Why does Wikipedia say Ireland is the most indebted county per capita?
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    Why does Wikipedia say Ireland is the most indebted county per capita?

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    2. GrumpyGit1 on

      Sorry I took out a couple of loans to buy apartments in Bulgaria, but I’m on a payment plan I swear!

    6. gildedbluetrout on

      As part of the deal with the EU to reschedule the bank debt we owed out of the financial crisis, we fully nationalised tonnes of it tho right? And then the EU threw the repayment schedule for around half of it decades into the future. There’s still a lot of it out there afaik. Our formal debt per capita being that high isn’t really surprising. It’s the fact that the payments are very manageable is the thing. Servicing it doesn’t impact us.

    7. AulMoanBag on

      May not be countrywide but in Donegal nearly every second car is a BMW or Audi. So I would imagine car loans would count toward that statistic and the Irish like to keep up with the Jones’s

    11. Leavser1 on

      Because we have huge national debt arising from a forced bailing out of banks to protect the wealthy

    12. RJMC5696 on

      We do have a big debt, I think every child born here already owes €30,000? There’s a site though where you can watch the debt go down 😅 we’re definitely not in the trillions though!

    13. Apprehensive_Ratio80 on

      Be,,,,cause,,,we are? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

      Think we’re 285€ BILLION in debt, divide that by population and you get the above figure 🤷🏻‍♂️

      Side note, all this Apple Tax money and extra 8billion from revenue this year will barely make a dent in our national debt so I still say build INFRASTRUCTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE,, INFRASTRUCTURE!!!!!!!!!

      Make this country as efficient and and as attractive as possible to outside invested and just help ppl of Ireland. Debt will always be there but we need to be thinking about the next 100years in Ireland and getting ready for it. We need more Internet and services on the west, more public transport, more efficient road systems, upgraded airports and metros, more efficient traffic systems around our cities, better funded and organized hospitals, more and Bigger public parks (sick of off these tiny 3acre parks everywhere).