Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

Great. Let's model a failed country.

If they were smart they would start with adding more and reducing it.

Failed country? By what measure? One of the highest GNPs per person, one of the most democratic, one of the highest winners of novel prizes for literature per population, one of the safest countries in the world, one of the most food secure countries in the world, overall very good and mostly free health and education, a high redistributive tax system, friendly people, easy place to work...

Lol. Cope harder.

Lel. By what measure Ireland is developed? Country is riddled with foreign population. Birtharates are falling to the point of no recovery. No access to abortion and health services are so far behind. Claims to be christian but can't even unite the broken part of country. So much violence in the country. Man, if you are rich and white, it's great. If you are not white, it is done deal and you will never get ahead. @piltdownman - Listen YWNBW and successful. Keep commenting here like you are birtch of HN.

What crazy fasco-nationalist rant are you indulging yourself in now? That poisonous diatribe is the product of a truly fractured mind.