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Then they came up with two wheezes: no tax for artists, to try and encourage them to live (or more correctly officially live) there, and a complete free for all based on EU money, which transferred taxpayers money from the rest of the EU to some very, very nasty criminal gangs with connections at the highest level of government

You know, anyone with even half a brain could easily check the internet to demonstrate how completely false and vicious are your assertions. Firstly, the tax-free regime for artists was introduced in 1969 - our boom didn't begin until 1989 when Intel established its first manufacturing plant outside of the US in Leixlip, Ireland. That led to a flood of US companies following suit: IBM, HP, Google, CitiCorp, the list goes on. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s Ireland attracted more than 50% of all Foreign Direct Investment into Europe. For a country with less than 4 million people it was an incredible achievement. The EU likes to boast about the investment it made in Ireland, but it was trivial in comparison to the investment made my US corporations here. But people like you, lazy slurmongerers, with a racist agenda, will never let the facts get in the way of your vicious polemics.