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#879 Ireland Is Getting Richer, So Why Do You Feel Poorer?
In this episode, Niall Boylan speaks to economic journalist with The Sunday Times Ireland, Cormac Lucey, about Ireland’s continuing cost of living crisis and whether Government policy is actually making inflation worse.
Prices rose by 3.4% in the year to July, with some household costs increasing far more sharply. Education costs were up 8.9%, clothing and footwear increased by 8.5%, while housing, water, electricity and gas rose by 7.7%.
Cormac Lucey argues that the Government is not simply failing to control inflation, but is actively fuelling it through its own spending and economic…
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