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NEW FIGURES FROM the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that households in just four counties in Ireland have more disposable income that the State average.
The figures for 2011 reveal Dublin still has the highest average disposable income* per person at €21,329 while the border region with €16,984 and midlands with €17,428 fared the worst.
The gap between the highest and lowest value of disposable income per person in each region has widened, increasing by €632 in Dublin. However Dublin was also the only region in the country with a higher per capita disposable income than the State average for the entire 2002 to 2011 period.
Households in Donegal, Monaghan, Cavan, Roscommon, Offaly, Kilkenny and Kerry showed the lowest disposable income per head, as seen in the chart below:
Cork, Kildare, Dublin and Limerick are the only counties where this income is higher than the State average.
At the other end of the spectrum, the counties of Donegal and Kerry have had per capita disposable incomes below 85 and 90 per cent of the State level during the entire period of 2002 to 2011.
A recent tracker from the Irish League of Credit Unions found disposable income has increased by €13 since last year, though the majority of readers in our poll said they didn’t have more money in their pockets than this time last year.
*Note: The CSO defines disposable income as total income minus current taxes on income, minus social insurance contributions.
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Fantastic recognition. Proper order too that these great women are celebrated. Too long have women been written out of Irish history. This is a refreshing change for the better.
Great article and great to see these women being recognised…. Fair dues to all! Good job they weren’t nuns or we’d be inundated with the anti nun brigade even though there were lots of well intentioned religious who did similar when the state abandoned their responsibilities.
@Jerriko17: One good nun or priest, remaining so, if they were aware of what was going on in their religious institutions, are guilty by; Association.
@ÓDuibhír Abú: Typical!!!!!!!… Seemingly only nuns and priests can be guilty by association. Maybe those voted for the government of the times were guilty by association too. What a load of…… !
Great women. Makes you wonder how much more of an impact women like these would have had on the growing state without the dominant church influence.
@Lad_ Well we know that they had no personal involvement with men at all being as far as we know in a lesbian relationship for decades .This.gave them the freedom to concentrate on their important work something that would be impssible for most married catholic women , under strict instructions from the church to be forever bearing and rearing children , while being simultaneously without proper recognition in law ,
Fantastic to see, especially during pride month!
Better late than never .These women came from privileged ,enlightened backgrounds for which we.can only be truly grateful .They had great courage and energy and achieved what they did largely one suspects because they weren’t as suppressed and depressed as so many catholic women were .
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