IRELAND’S HAD A rocky ride over the past decade: we managed to punch above our weight economically for a while, raise our profile internationally and have a bit of a knees up… before being brought right back down to Earth again.
But in between the whirl of Celtic Tiger excesses and recessionary woes, life still went on. So we’ve taken a look at Ireland’s vital statistics from 2000 – 2011, asking: just when is our favourite time to be born, get married and shuffle off this mortal coil?
All figures sourced from the Central Statistics Office
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