The annoying thing about Ireland’s ropey infrastructure is that we haven’t been slow to fund it.  According to a 2017 analysis by the IMF, Ireland spent the seventh-most in the world, per person, on public infrastructure. The same report ranked the quality of our infrastructure as the 14th best in the world. From the IMF’s 2017 PIMA report on Ireland It’s important because Ireland’s population has grown very quickly in the last 30 years, and is forecast to grow very quickly in the next 20. We need to get good at building things. And something is going wrong with how…

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