Ireland's quality of life is the second best in the world, according to a new UN report.
Ireland increased by one place since last year, coming second only to Norway.
The UN rank countries based on their quality of life, judging them on a number of categories including life expectancy, expected years of schooling, economy growth and healthcare.
Ireland scored .955 on this year's Human Development Index, an increase of 23.3 per cent since 1990.
Journalist Michael O'Regan has his doubts about the quality of the report:
"We're well ahead of Australia which is 8th."
"But talk to any of our young nurses in hospitals; where are they all leaving Ireland for? Australia."
"Why are the leaving? Better quality of life and higher salary."
The journalist said it's easy to make "supercilious judgement on the quality of life."
Ireland were second to Norway on the index.
Our nearest neighbour, Britain, ranked 13, while Somalia was found to have the lowest quality of life.
It came in last in the ranking of 189 countries.
