Ireland still produces

Ireland bucked a trend of falling production rates across Europe by recording a 7.9pc month-on-month increase in industrial production.

Across the euro zone, production rates were down 0.9pc for September, when compared with August.
However, year-on-year, increases of 5.2pc were seen across the euro area. Ireland also fared well in annual comparisons with the fifth highest year-on-year increase.

Business and Leadership

Ireland's energy efficiency is quite good.

They have this next external debt per person problem:
1 - Ireland ($442,961.33)
2 - Switzerland ($176,745.56)
3 - UK ($171,469.14)
4 - Netherlands ($136,795.26)
5 - Belgium ($126,202.06)
6 - France ($68,625.53)
7 - Germany ($54,498.29)
8 - USA ($40,319.31)
9 - Spain ($26,771.35)
10 - Japan ($11,721.41)


If the financial mess cleans up, Ireland will be low priced.