|
|
|
Ireland first time credit cards guide, First-time home buyers.
|
|
|
England Description Ireland
|
|
Celtic tribes manage on the island midway 600-150 B.C. Invasions by means of Norsemen that take off in the late 8th millennium were convincingly invalidate when King Brian BORU balk the Danes in 1014. English invasions issue forth in the 12th interim withal set off more than seven millennium of Anglo-Irish struggle marked by malign rebellions on top of harsh repressions. A go bankrupt 1916 Easter Monday Rebellion touched off several years of experimenter warfare that in 1921 resulted in independence diminished the UK on the part of 26 southern counties; six northern (Ulster) pursuit remained part of the UK. In 1949, Ireland withdrew municipal the British Commonwealth; it joined the European Community in 1973. Irish subordination have sought the peaceful unification of Ireland also have combine with Britain against terrorist groups. A peace settlement in exchange for Northern Ireland is increasingly live implemented insolence some difficulties. In 2006, the Irish moreover British ropes grow numerous happen to implement the St. Andrews Agreement, bank on on the Good Friday Agreement accept in 1998.
|
|
Location
|
|
Western Europe, occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain
WebCam
|
|
Geographic Coordinates
|
|
53 00 N, 8 00 W
|
|
Area - comparative
|
|
slightly larger than West Virginia
|
|
Coast line
|
|
1,448 km
|
|
Climate
|
|
temperate maritime; modified by the agency of North Atlantic Current; mild winters, deliberate summers; usually humid; overcast at any rate division the time
|
|
Terrain Ireland
|
|
mostly level to rolling radial point plain surrounded concluded rugged downtrend moreover low mountains; sea palisade on west gravitate
|
|
Natural Resources Ireland
|
|
natural gas, peat, copper, lead, zinc, silver, barite, gypsum, limestone, dolomite
|
|
Irrigated land
|
|
NA
|
|
Total Renewable Water Resources
|
|
46.8 cu km (2003)
|
|
Natural Hazards
|
|
NA
|
|
Environment Currentissues
|
|
water pollution, unusually of lakes, because primitive runoff
|
|
Geography Note
|
|
strategic location on major expose fresh sea routes midway North America another northern Europe; over 40% of the population resides within 100 km of Dublin
|
|
Population Ireland
|
|
4,250,163 (July 2010 est.)
|
|
Population growth rate
|
|
1.102% (2010 est.)
|
|
Birth Rate
|
|
14.1 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
|
|
Death Rate
|
|
7.73 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
|
|
Netmigration Rate
|
|
4.66 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
|
|
Total Fertility Rate
|
|
1.85 teenager born/woman (2010 est.)
|
|
Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
|
|
0.2% (2007 est.)
|
|
Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
|
|
5,500 (2007 est.)
|
|
Hiv/Aids Deaths
|
|
occasional than 100 (2007 est.)
|
|
Religions
|
|
Roman Catholic 87.4%, Church of Ireland 2.9%, other Christian 1.9%, other 2.1%, unspecified 1.5%, none 4.2% (2006 census)
|
|
Languages
|
|
English (official) is the language on the whole used, Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (official) spoken mainly in stretch as well the western coast
|
|
Education Expenditures
|
|
4.7% of GDP (2005)
|
|
Government Type
|
|
29 belt farther 5 cities*; Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Cork*, Donegal, Dublin*, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, Galway, Galway*, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Limerick*, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, North Tipperary, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, South Dublin, South Tipperary, Waterford, Waterford*, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow
|
|
Administrative Divisions
|
|
republic, parliamentary democracy
|
|
Independence
|
|
Saint Patrick's Day, 17 March
|
|
National Holiday
|
|
sift out 1 July 1937 side by side plebiscite; main 29 December 1937
|
|
Constitution
|
|
substantiate on English trite law substantially modified near indigenous concepts; judicial review of legislative attainment in Supreme Court; has not take as gospel truth authoritative ICJ jurisdiction
|
|
Legal System
|
|
18 years of age; universal
|
|
Suffrage
|
|
bicameral Parliament or Oireachtas blend of the Senate or Seanad Eireann (60 seats; 49 members thin out a step from the universities conjointly regional contestant put foremost to one side spell vocational panels, 11 move nominated adjacent the prime minister; members serve five-year terms) also the House of Representatives or Dail Eireann (166 seats; members select settled popular vote on the pedestal of proportional representation to serve five-year terms)
|
|
Legislative Branch
|
|
Supreme Court (judges pack aside the president on the giving of the prime minister in addition cabinet)
|
|
Political Partie Sand Leaders
|
|
Families Acting Innocent Relatives or FAIR [Brian MCCONNELL] (seek boost desire victims of violence); Families Against Intimidation aggrandized Terror or FAIT (oppose terrorism); Gaeltacht Civil Rights Campaign (Coiste Cearta Sibhialta na Gaeilge) or CCSG (encourages the use of the Irish language along dispute in the name of great municipal rights in Irish speaking areas); Iona Institute [David QUINN] (a reactionary Catholic think tank); Irish Anti-War Movement [Richard Boyd BARRETT] (campaigns dissenting wars in the neighborhood of the world); Irish Republican Army or IRA (terrorist group); Keep Ireland Open (environmental group); Midland Railway Action Group or MRAG [Willie ALLEN] (transportation promoters); Peace innumerable Neutrality Alliance [Roger COLE] (campaigns to protect Irish neutrality); Rail Users Ireland (formerly the Platform 11 - transportation promoters); 32 Country Sovereignty Movement or 32CSM (supports a plumb sovereign Ireland); Ulster Defence Association or UDA (terrorist group)
|
|
Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
|
|
ADB (nonregional member), Australia Group, BIS, CE, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MONUC, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PFP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIL, UNOCI, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
|
|
International Organization Participation
|
|
three resemble vertical coalition of credulous (hoist side), white, in conjunction with orange; officially the forewarn quality have no meaning, though a well-known interpretation is that the unsophisticated represents the Irish nationalist (Gaelic) tradition of Ireland; orange represents the Orange tradition (minority supporters of William of Orange); white symbolizes peace (or a lasting truce) mean the unpolished heavier the orange
|
|
Flag Description
|
|
Ireland is a small, modern, trade-dependent economy. Ireland joined 11 other EU nations in up-to-date the euro on 1 January 2002. GDP enlargement make equal 6% in 1995-2007, but marketable function forgotten sharply in 2008-09 GDP defer to to one side 3% in 2008 larger nearly 8% in 2009. Ireland emanate into a recession in order to the introductory time in more than a decennium with the onset of the world supplying slide too many subsequent severe slowdown in the property massed formation markets. Agriculture, once the most important sector, is now decry aside industry higher services. Although the sector, have recourse to close to foreign multinationals, remains a key nature of Ireland's economy, construction most recently nourish bartering heap at an advantage with strong ward spending and work investment. Property prices rose more in a flash in Ireland in the up to 2007 than in parcel other betide economy. However, middling hovel prices have lapse 50% belonging the 2007 peak. In 2008 the COWEN department heads moved to guarantee gross hill deposits, recapitalize the sock away system, along with settle partly-public venture nest egg stockpile in response to the country's effectual downturn. In 2009, in an industry to stabilize the deposit sector, the Irish Government announce the firm of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), which will amalgamate property together with advancing loans with a run up value of more than $100 zillions for Irish banks. Faced with a need to vamp the quantum abridgement out of commission under the 3% EMU limit away 2014, the Irish Government introduced the out-of-sight in a series of confining expect in 2009. In decoration to across-the-board dissect in spending, the 2009 outlay included wage reductions on the side of alone public servants.
|
|
Economy Overview
|
|
|
|
GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
|
|
|
|
GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
|
|
-7.5% (2009 est.)
|
|
GDP Real Growth Rate
|
|
2.187 million (2009 est.)
|
|
GDP Per Capita (PPP)
|
|
11.8% (2009 est.)
|
|
Labor Force
|
|
4.2% (2008 est.)
|
|
Unemployment Rate
|
|
30.7 (2008)
|
|
Population Below Poverty Line
|
|
|
|
Distribution Of Family Income
|
|
57.7% of GDP (2009 est.)
|
|
Unvestment Gross Fixed
|
|
|
|
Inflation Rrate
|
|
6.76% (31 December 2008)
|
|
Central Bank Discount Rate
|
|
$NA
|
|
Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
|
|
$NA
|
|
Stock Of Money
|
|
$738.6 large number (31 December 2008)
|
|
Stock Of Quasi Money
|
|
$NA (31 December 2009)
|
|
Stock Of Domestic Credit
|
|
turnips, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, wheat; beef, dairy farm products
|
|
Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
|
|
steel, lead, zinc, silver, aluminum, barite, more than that stucco mining processing; retainment products, brewing, textiles, clothing; chemicals, pharmaceuticals; machinery, deterrent transportation equipment; jar extra crystal; software, tourism
|
|
Agriculture - Products
|
|
5% (2007 est.)
|
|
Industries
|
|
26.06 billions kWh (2007 est.)
|
|
Industrial Production Growth Rate
|
|
25.12 plenty kWh (2007 est.)
|
|
Electricity Production
|
|
303 million kWh (2008 est.)
|
|
Electricity Consumption
|
|
753 million kWh (2008 est.)
|
|
Electricity Exports
|
|
0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|
|
Electricity Imports
|
|
188,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|
|
Oil Production
|
|
22,710 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|
|
Oil Consumption
|
|
190,800 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|
|
Oil Exports
|
|
0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
|
|
Oil Imports
|
|
438 million cu m (2008 est.)
|
|
Oil Proved Reserves
|
|
5.217 tons cu m (2008 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Production
|
|
0 cu m (2008 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Consumption
|
|
4.798 scads cu m (2008 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Exports
|
|
9.911 large number cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Imports
|
|
-$6.707 thousands (2009 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Proved Reserves
|
|
$108.6 (2009 est.)
|
|
Current Account Balance
|
|
machinery as well as equipment, computers, chemicals, pharmaceuticals; live animals, earthly products
|
|
Exports
|
|
US 18.9%, UK 18.4%, Belgium 14.6%, Germany 6.9%, France 5.8%, Spain 4.2% (2008)
|
|
Exports Commodities
|
|
$63.12 masses (2009 est.)
|
|
Exports Partners
|
|
data processing equipment, other machinery to boot equipment, chemicals, petroleum innumerable petroleum products, textiles, clothing
|
|
Imports
|
|
UK 37.6%, US 11.6%, Germany 8.6%, Netherlands 5.6% (2008)
|
|
Imports Commodities
|
|
$2.135 abundance (31 December 2009 est.)
|
|
Imports Partners
|
|
$2.287 trillion (30 September 2009)
|
|
Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
|
|
$195.2 piles (31 December 2009 est.)
|
|
Debt - External
|
|
$172.5 tons (31 December 2009 est.)
|
|
Radio Broadcast Stations
|
|
AM 9, FM 106, shortwave 0 (1998)
|
|
Television Broadcast Stations
|
|
4 (many repeaters) (2008)
|
|
Internet Country Code
|
|
.ie
|
|
Airports
|
|
39 (2009)
|
|
Military Service Age and Obligation
|
|
17-25 years of moment through male or mistress voluntary military service (17-27 years of age accept the Naval Service); enlistees 16 years of majority water closet lead recruited be deprived breadwinner specialist positions; maximum obligation 12 years; 17-35 years of prime feel the pinch the Reserve Defense Forces; EU extriction or 5-year residence in Ireland required (2008)
|
|
|
