I haven’t started a limited company in Ireland, but I have looked into it. I was interested for pretty much the same reasons you are - I wanted English language

I haven’t started a limited company in Ireland, but I have looked into it. I was interested for pretty much the same reasons you are - I wanted English language, common law and EU. From what I could find, using a service company to sort everything out - company registration, bank account, legal address, first year taxes filed etc - the cost was around €1000. The same service in the UK is much cheaper. I guess this only matters relative to the size of your business. At the time I was only looking for a small holding company, with not much revenue initially.