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Do you personally feel like you are part of the 4th richest country?

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No, but I do feel wealthier than the average Brit (used to live there). Like I said, our figures are manipulated. So much so that no decent Irish economist even bothers with our GDP figures when conducting analyses, with GNP the preferred metric. A lot of our GDP is stuff like pharmaceutical and computer software exports, but the reality is those are US companies and particularly since Trump’s tax changes the profits get repatriated to the US but are still recorded as Irish GDP. And there’s also the leprechaun economics thing we were criticised for a few years ago where international companies just domicile patents here, while other companies book profits from other countries in Ireland cos we don’t tax them.

All that said, we still don’t need or want reparations from anybody. We’re quite capable of paying our own way.

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How do you deal with the animosities between Brits and Irish. I've noticed over the years a mocking disdain the Brits have for the Irish when it should be the other way around..

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Ah there’s no real animosity these days. There are a lot of “stupid Irishman” jokes the English like to tell but that’s based on waves of Irish emigrants to England in past generations who would’ve been quite poorly educated. The jokes continue but they don’t bother us anymore cos we regard ourselves as better educated than them (always like to point to this to illustrate why niggers get offended if you call them niggers - think are only insulting if you know they’re true). Most of the other stuff is just the banter we have to have on these isles to make things liveable - the English laugh at the Irish and Scots as drunks, the Irish and Scots laugh at the English as lightweights etc. It’s not to be taken too seriously really.