Dr. Conor McCabe
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first heard Dec 2025
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But it turns out that that growth was just phantom.
It's the shuffling of paper or emails.
And so the CSO has been forced to address that somehow.
So now it has its own stats in terms of what he sees as kind of a closer kind of GDP that it calls kind of GNI star.
But that's not recognised outside of Ireland.
It's just recognised here.
The stats that are used kind of internationally are the ones that get used by kind of Eurostat.
And Eurostat says that
Even though we know that your growth rate figures are nonsense, we have to use them because of comparative kind of purposes.
So that then means then that last year, I think it was last year, the EU economy shrunk.
there last year, except that Ireland kind of bailed it out because it was seen to have just a modest kind of growth because these fictions in the Irish economy are so huge that they distorted the entire EU's GDP.
Yeah.
Yes, true.
But it may kind of answer why...
what people are feeling on the ground is not going to reflect it in like RTE and in the Indo and in the Irish times, because I would say to people that your gut is right.
You're right.
Things are not as they are.
Things are not as they seem.
The poverty and the austerity and the struggles that you see are real.
I mean, even this week, RTE had a headline article saying that, you know,
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