David McWilliams: Ist Irland das am schlechtesten geführte Land in Europa?
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/04/11/david-mcwilliams-ireland-has-too-much-money-and-is-fiscally-incontinent/
Von grayparrot116
David McWilliams: Ist Irland das am schlechtesten geführte Land in Europa?
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/04/11/david-mcwilliams-ireland-has-too-much-money-and-is-fiscally-incontinent/
Von grayparrot116
39 Kommentare
No : the worst run country in Europe is voting tomorrow.
Bit of stupid article when there’s no mention of local objectors and the huge amount of NIMBYism that’s enabled here.
I’m not making excuses for the government but the article is completely ignoring all the obstacles that any infrastructure or construction project gets. If all it takes is 20 people to delay a project for years than it’s no surprise the cost of these projects explodes.
Not to mention the obsession with houses in this country over apartments and stupid rules in place like DCC and their precious preservation of the Dublin skyline.
Most of Europe would kill for our economy.
The waste of public taxes is certainly something
That award would probably go to Hungary instead.
Not remotely close. We have ineptitude, the Mediterranean countries have actual corruption, making Bertie look like a saint.
And then you have Hungary and Slovakia run by Russian mobsters
No!! No I wont have that! There’s a place in Eastbourne
TLDR: Not the worst, not the best.
[Betteridge’s law of headlines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines) is an adage that states: „Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.“
Ah jasus think pieces tumbling down upon us like breeze blocks.
It is getting there
I can’t read the article cause of paywall so disclaimer.
But if you want to see a poorly run go to Bosina. I was there in summer. And on the main road between Sarajevo and the second biggest biggest city the bank beside the road partially collapsesed onto it. 4 month’s later they still didn’t clear it. It wasn’t a large volume of clay either, you could clear it in an hour with a tractor.
I am honestly convinced, some people think that bad things only happen in Ireland, and everywhere else is 100% perfect.
Every European country has its own example of projects with cost over runs ect ect.
We’re ranked 11th globally on a prosperity index that uses over 100 variables.
Things could be better and we should never accept incompetence or waste, but it’s far easier to be worse.
We were the poorest country in Western Europe not too long ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legatum_Prosperity_Index
Ireland isn’t even the worst run country in Ireland
I did nt get to read the article because of the pay wall, but, as pointed out that it takes years and years to get anything done, but dont blame the government.. well, that’s why we are badly ruled. The planning system is out of date. They know it, but they don’t to do anything about it. So, yes, he’s right.
Definitely not. Compared to earnings, our fuel isn’t even that expensive.
Cant read it, but I am convinced there’s a wave of Ireland-bashing being promoted of late. I‘m cudgelling my brains to think what offence we are being paid back for.
Yes. Ireland is rich, billions of euros not being used when the country need everything, like housing, transportation, infrastructure, free healthcare, investment in Gardai, energy…. the list goes on.
I wish that well groomed got would actually pony up try to help rather than make a career out of. ‘Here’s what you could have won’
Posting the headline without any access to even a hint of what’s in the article is just going to result in a thread of people bouncing off the headline, which is clickbait.
Betteridge’s law of headlines strikes again.
In other news, Hungary is having their parliamentary elections this weekend.
law of headlines says no
This poster did a decent job I thought: https://www.reddit.com/r/waterford/s/MyfTy5cTAQ
Not even close
No not so. Ireland tradionally is very unreactive. Defence infrastructure etc. Leave it to latter seems to be the way. Get hospitals and social welfare funded and its all good. The IDA has in my opinion saved ireland with good support by the FF FG and labour government partners of the time.
I can think of a project that ireland has produced since independence. Metro and children’s hospital been i think the nearest. With the metro might not happening
I think ireland is not badly lead but is it well lead.
That’s being _extremely_ generous
No take it from experience the UK is.
I actually hate David McWilliams so much
It’s grand
Move the is to after Ireland, and remove the question mark
Good God he must have hit his head. Had he not heard of Hungary. What a fool.
Before you answer, ask if you’re willing to protest!
You would THINK it was the worst run country but let me present you something worse: Hungary! (Best of luck to them tomorrow in fixing that btw!)
You have to credit McWilliams for stealing a living from rudimentry hot takes and lazy analysis.
Whichever country I live in/have visited is and always has been the worse country to live in and everywhere else is better and perfect.
What is this always greener grass in other countries you speak of.
McWilliams is a clout chasing spoofer.
Don’t mind him
As a Greek, you are very amateurs in corruption. If you need any lessons we are here to help!
Short answer:Yes.
Long answer:Yeesss.
Ireland is a massive shithole and that includes Dublin despite all the advantages it has, it must be one of the worst capitals in Europe and is a filthy mess.