Report reveals how divide in Irish society continues to widen

Less than half the annual report on the state of Ireland Inc from the European Commission deals with the well-rehearsed areas of banks, macro economics, government budgets, debts, and deficits.
The rest of the 64-page document focuses on the everyday issues of people’s lives — from work to health, education to water, poverty to tax — and it notes the aims, aspirations, successes, and failures of all the Government’s good intentions.