https://onpaper.ie Ireland, measured. en-IE https://onpaper.ie/money on-paper-01 Money and the state Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ireland spends 43.7% of net national income — the lowest of 27 countries. The gap on the spending side is 3.6 times the gap on the tax side. https://onpaper.ie/welfare on-paper-04 Welfare and work Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 82% of everyone on a welfare payment is an Irish national. The claim has two real edges and we print those too. https://onpaper.ie/housing on-paper-02 Housing Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The county that received the fewest people is the county that housed them worst. Hover any county on the map and see its full record. https://onpaper.ie/farmed on-paper-05 Sentiment and information Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Seventy per cent of documented incidents were filmed by the person committing them. That is not how we know — it is the finding. https://onpaper.ie/precedent on-paper-03 Housing Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A three-year-old state spent 17.3% of its budget on one power station. And the thing everyone blames for stopping it loses 56% of its cases.