Most recent year is 2007 - a very different profile (one Irish person has emigrated every six minutes in the last year, for instance, whereas in 2007 people were immigrating into Ireland; 2007 was the height of the Celtic Tiger, with not just full employment (normally reckoned as only 3% unemployed) but more than full (our unemployment then was 2% in 2007), with enormous social mobility then, with a radical change in diet to a more Mediterranean model, but with women drinking too much wine), In 2013, we have this haemorrhaging emigration, giant unemployment, enormous social injustice, a radical tearing-apart of classes (wealthy people at one end, very poor at the other, a yawning gap between, virtually no sense of solidarity). A very different Ireland.
But more of a problem; the figures talk about obesity, but I can’t see any actual weights quoted.
