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How happy are we, anyway?

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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15.32 21 Sep 2023


How happy are we, anyway?


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15.32 21 Sep 2023


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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