How happy are we, anyway?
The Hard Shoulder · 2023-09-21
What is the cost of contentment in each country?
That’s what a recent study out of Harvard University focused on, finding the highest cost of happiness was in Iran at nearly €232,000 and the lowest was in Sierra Leone at just over 8 grand.
Ireland was rudely left off the list of 173 countries, but our own reporter Sarah Madden has been looking into it for us instead.
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