Assessing Ireland’s Governance and Structural Fragility (irishtimes.com)

• Housing and infrastructure deficits despite high headline growth
• Fiscal volatility linked to concentrated corporate tax revenue
• Structural strain on essential public services

"Despite robust GDP growth, Ireland faces mounting criticism regarding systemic governance failures. Issues center on chronic housing shortages, strained healthcare capacity, and under-developed physical infrastructure. The critique highlights a dichotomy between the country's success in attracting multinational investment and its inability to translate this prosperity into high-quality public services. The analysis questions whether current fiscal reliance on concentrated corporate tax revenues creates a structural risk to national resilience, challenging the sustainability of Ireland’s economic development model within the European framework."