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Poverty skyrockets in Ireland as the ruling elite gets richer
By Dermot Quinn and Emily Doyle
6 December 2013
Sixteen percent of the Republic of Ireland’s population, 734,120 people, now live in poverty.
Since the financial and economic crisis engulfed the country in 2008 there has been a huge redistribution of wealth from the working class and poorer sections of society to the very wealthy ruling elite. Successive austerity budgets introduced by the ruling Fine Gael/Labour coalition and the previous government led by Fiana Fail have impoverished whole sections of society who depend on social protection.