While the Irish play around with being a welfare state they forgot to ask: if everybody is goofing off, who’s making the money to pay the tab?
They certainly do forget, until the jobs start disappearing again. Even worse, they’re eventually going to find out what being a vassal state of Germany really means, and they’ll forget all about those awful Brits.
My brother married into an Irish expat family. His father-in-law started a small construction business, busted his hump and did very well for himself.
He says his days of visiting Ireland are over. He is thoroughly disgusted with how lazy and Godless his ex-countrymen have become since Ireland joined the EU.