Louise Burne: Our 'do nothing Dáil' is much more appealing than Britain's omnishambles

With the British government seemingly in chaos every week, Louise Burne reflects on our sull, but stable, Government in Leinster House

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Taoiseach Micheál Martin ahead of a business roundtable at the Albert Dock in Liverpool, after the first in a new series of annual UK-Ireland Summits last year. File picture

For decades, it has become a phenomenon for Irish people in their mid-20s to wave goodbye to their hometowns and villages and make the big move to London.

Some stay for a few years before eventually coming home. Others make it their new forever home, staying for a career, the top-class (but expensive) public transport system, or, more often than not, love.