Irish Flock to Tax-the-Rich Protest Party Amid Crisis

Sitting in a community center in Tallaght, a sprawling, working-class suburb at the foot of Dublin’s mountains, Debbie Byrne sees little sign she’s living in the euro region’s fastest-growing economy.

The government is “trying to say things are on the climb,” said Byrne, 38, a homemaker who helps people who drop in grapple with drug addiction and a jobless rate soaring above the national average. “Show me where things are on the climb in these areas. There are people going hungry.”