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#702 Are City Taxpayers Carrying Rural Ireland?
On today’s episode of The Niall Boylan Podcast, Niall opens the lines on a comment that has reignited one of Ireland’s most sensitive divides… urban versus rural.
Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has sparked outrage after suggesting that urban Ireland is effectively subsidising rural Ireland. Speaking on a podcast, he said:
“People in rural Ireland are very quick to tell people in urban Ireland that ‘we’re the real workers, we’re the ones paying all the bills, we’re the ones feeding the country’
I think we maybe need to be a little bit more blunt in urban Ireland and say actually, that’s not the…
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