Ireland is flush with cash thanks to Apple, but its welfare state is creaking and that will have an impact on the election | De Volkskrant |

Election posters at a bus stop in High Street in Limerick. (Photo credit: Jonathan Browning for De Volkskrant)

Ireland's booming economy is playing a major role in today's election, but dark clouds are gathering. There is a housing shortage, problems in healthcare and unrest about immigration. What will the Irish voter do?

Nothing exceptional in the liberal economy run by the apparatchiks of the EU in Brussels ...

There is a housing shortage, problems in healthcare and unrest about immigration ...

Scaremongering, the success story of extreme rightwing populism across the Western world. No politician will stand up for social justice and equality. The "Left" destroyed in America's War on Terror.

For 14 years the liberal Mark Rutte kicked the can down the road, letting shit happen, not solving the crucial issues of We the People.

'Sapere aude'