EU survey: 90% of Irish happy with life

DESPITE Ireland’s dire economic state, more than 90% of its people say they are happy with their lives, and more than half say they are in fact very satisfied.

And good as it is, many expect things to get even better in the next 12 months — in this we are second only to Germany.

In the unhappy league are our fellow austerity club sinners, Greece and Portugal.