NI’s exchequer transfers make us a more prosperous society than the south…

Interesting report from Maynooth finds that Northern Ireland is more prosperous than Ireland, indeed DUP run Castlereagh leads the affluence league for the whole island followed by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, North Down, Antrim and Lisburn…. Carl O’Brien in the Irish Times reports: Unemployment levels across many parts of Northern Ireland, for example, are half the rates south of the Border. The North also has a much more even spread of affluence right across the six counties, whereas well-off areas in the Republic …

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