Known its heavy annual rainfall Ireland's Victorian-era water pipes, and environmentally dubious and wasteful water scheme sees no end in sight to the Emerald Isle's water crisis.
Ireland’s long-standing traditional thinking of a woman’s place being the home has drastically affected the number of women being elected to public office.
Jumping into the slot of Dublin GAA football team manager, taking over from five-time All-Ireland champ Jim Gavin, there's no hiding for Dessie Farrell.
For a country that has had such a long and painful history of emigration, the growth in racism and hate crimes over the past couple of years has been unprecedented.
What Ireland is left with now is a solution that avoids a land border but risks an economic meltdown. Whether we made the right choice will become clear later this year.
