Yeah after about €70k there is a higher rate of USC. The 52% includes PAYE, PRSI and USC at the highest bands for a regular employee.

In Ireland it’s about 48% on everything above €40k, then 52% above €70k.

That by itself could be misleading though, the overall effective tax rate for someone on €40k is 18%, around 30% at €70k. The thresholds will rise next year.

Demand does change the price. You can see the price drop during economic downturns. Supply and demand are two sides of a single equation. It simply doesn’t make sense to say that only one impacts prices.

Prices had been dropping recently despite KSA reducing supply, until the attacks in Israel that is.

* in the UK and Ireland. For historical reasons every book published in Ireland has to send a copy to the British library.

Similarly, the Trinity College Library in Dublin is entitled to receive a copy of every book published in the UK, on request.

You can do that in Ireland too. For health insurance the insurer handles the tax and takes it off what they charge you. For charities if you donate over a certain threshold the charity gets to claim back the tax you paid for themselves. For ongoing things you inform Revenue and they let your employer know to collect less tax. Then for other things you just tell Revenue and they refund you.

Salmonella vaccination isn’t standard practice in Ireland due to low prevalence of the infection. There’s effectively no salmonella on Irish eggs for sale. As far as I understand it anyway.

You can buy bottles of pasteurised egg whites in Ireland too. I assume you can also get the yolks somewhere too I just haven’t seen it.

Ireland doesn’t have a colonial past, except in the being colonised sense. While no country is completely without racism, Ireland doesn’t have any racist policies or prime ministers calling for referenda on immigration. Fairly small population though.