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IMO this sounds like fairly shaky ground to build your economy on

• Supernaut 6y ago
  History demonstrates otherwise. Apple has had facilities in Ireland since 1979. Most of the Apple IIs that were sold in Europe were built in Cork.
  • rusk 6y ago
    You’re not on the same thread at all
    • Supernaut 6y ago
      Whatever.
      • rusk 6y ago
        Wow can’t believe you didn’t say “your mom”
• secondcoming 6y ago
  Sure was, but 1980's Ireland had pretty much no economy at all. Emigration was an expectation, not a privilege. The country needed all it could get. And it eventually did very well, then screwed it up in the Global Financial Crisis, but now seems to be doing quite well (until Brexit starts to have an effect).
  • rusk 6y ago
    That was 40 years ago, and it brought real actual manufacturing to these shores. The situation nowadays is very different.