Knowledge economy strategy is killing rural Ireland

The IDA is writing the requiem for rural Ireland.

With 400,000-plus on welfare, the IDA persists in its policy of confining its job-creating activities to that twin-sister of the construction economy — the “knowledge economy”.

European governments must have smiled as they watched Ireland pursue an economic policy that was based on the building of houses, must have asked themselves what happens when they run out of flood plains on which to build?