The Yuppie

Posted on March 12, 2007
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Sitting in my local restaurant yesterday I caught my first sight of the Irish Yuppie. I don’t mean your average fellar on the make, nor the local farming community after a raft of site sales, nor even a software salesman. I mean a couple, down here, dressed for Sunday lunch with the kids too dressed up and ready to eat theier roast chicken while Dad talks to his mates about Gordon D’Arcy’s outside break and the quality of the Irish backline.

Sorry if it is a familiar sight in Dublin but for me it was a first. I’m more accustomed to the local middle class, the solicitors and doctors who’ve been raking in a small but consistent fortune for the past 90 years, and the architects that recently joined them and of course the teachers that don’t seem to socialise any place I go to.

What we need now is a few aging non-solicitor/doctor/ architect middle class not in the public service, before the July election to forge the kind of detailed policy agenda that might possibly lead to a competitive environment for the solicitors/doctors/architects etc who make too much easy money and who might take on what’s fast becoming a country run by its bureaucracy.

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