Northern Ireland Still The Happiest Place To Live In The UK. Somehow.

According to the Office Of National Statistics, Northern Ireland has been named the Happiest Place in the United Kingdom again.

They asked a representative sample of 165,000 (out of the 60 odd million people who live in the UK) the following questions:

1 - Overall, how satisfied are you with life nowadays?

2 - Overall, to what extend do feel the things you do in your life are worthwhile?

3 - Overall, how happy did you feel yesterday?

4 - Overall, how anxious did you feel yesterday?

Co-author of the study, Dawn Snape, described the Northern Irish people as a 'conundrum' as they scored so highly despite having a higher rate of unemployment than the rest of the UK.  Somehow someone who works for the Office Of National Statistics cannot see a direct correlation between not working and feeling happy with life.

The top five of the UK wide survey of happiest places were:

1 - Antrim. Home of the worlds most bombed Hotel

2 - Fermanagh - Mainly livestock.

3 - Omagh - Mainly farmers who are naturally happy as they get to drive tractors and no-one has ever seen someone look sad in a tractor.

4 - Dungannon - Mainly chickens.

5 - Somewhere in England somewhere.

So there it is. Northern Ireland is the happiest place in the United Kingdom despite seasonal violence, a government that's 20 years behind most of the modern world and its populace suffering from an identity crisis.

Come on, come all. Just not in July. Please.