The statistics that show how and why they are the poorest and the best.

Figure 1 shows the breakdown of wealth amongst each social grouping, as a percentage of GDP minus GNP. At a glance we can see that the nation's poor come out far ahead of every other section of society.

Figure 2 is an illustration of the division of bag ownership amongst the Top 100 Poor, supermarket chains, privately owned collections, and state plastic bag caches. This means that the Top 100 Poor possess 59% of the total, inexchangeable material value of plastic bag possession in Ireland.

55% Have more than one temporary home. While 14% work in street advertising; 72% are unemployed as street change acceptance vendors; 8% manage personal blood donation facilities; and the remaining 6% find their primary source of income in the personal property relocation industry.

As with the Top 100 Rich list published earlier this year, the Top 100 Poor pay subtantially less tax than the majority - accounting for less than 1% of the total tax revenue for the entire country. Many also experience a number of perks due to their lofty status - many rarely pay for meals, as they are given out to them for free, some are even given free room and board so that they can be seen as mascots for large organisations. Which demonstrates the ever growing economic divisions within Irish society.