Ireland has an impressive record of development over the past 50 years. Today an Irish citizen can expect the longest life expectancy in Europe. Relative to their grandparents’ generation, the likelihood of a child surviving has risen twenty-five-fold. That child will live 25 years longer than those born in 1922. We forget this easily. In the 1940s in Ireland, the death rate for “illegitimate” children born outside of marriage was one in three.  Work-related fatalities have more than halved in the last 20 years. The likelihood of dying on the roads fell by three quarters over the past 40 years.…

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