Article: FEATURE: THE CELTIC TIGER'S UNDERBELLY


United Press International
01-15-2004
Feature: The Celtic tiger's underbelly

DUBLIN, Ireland, Jan 15, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- When Ireland joined the European Union 30 years ago, it was the poorest country in the then 12-member bloc. Now it is the second richest state in the club, with average incomes topping those in Germany, Sweden and Denmark.

Ten years of double-digit growth in the 1990s has transformed Ireland from a hard-up agrarian country on Europe's fringes into the continent's "Celtic Tiger." It used to be half-joked that Ireland's only export was its people. Now, for the first time in its history, there are more immigrants than emigrants as tens of ...

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