Admitting that I know little about current-day Ireland (and the article feeling like 95% Trump-bashing fluff)... Has modern Ireland ever attempted this complex

Admitting that I know little about current-day Ireland (and the article feeling like 95% Trump-bashing fluff)... Has modern Ireland ever attempted this complex of an industrial/economic policy - at scale - and succeeded? Or is the concept of doing such things at least "familiar and credible" to the electorate and the ruling classes?