Ireland was the highest ever scoring European country for charitable giving over eight years from 2010 to 2018 and the fifth most generous country in the world, according to a study by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) published last year. We have always been known as a charitable nation, despite scandals from some charitable organisations through the years. Benefacts, an organisation that harvests data on Irish nonprofits, decided to analyse how charitable Ireland really is and to look at who is giving. They found that those on lower incomes and in rural Ireland are still largely charitable, while the winding up…

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