Prosperity could be boosted if only State bodies would get out of Dublin

It is 30 years since I began work in Dublin, having started my career in Cork. At that time, I would have been cynical about those who griped about how the capital was over-indexing on investment and political attention, at the expense of regions, including Munster. It seemed a form of inferiority complex to be forever whinging about the capital grabbing the lion’s share of investment.

Now, I am convinced that the political, institutional, and trade union structures created in Ireland after independence have hard-wired a set of behaviours and decisions that suit agendas set within the M50.