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Portugal too, I spent a summer there in 87, behind the resort facades it was a very poor and cheap place, just a quasi-western economy. EU grants transformed much of these fringe nations. Ireland - that's obvious, demographics simply. The Catholic and Republican population marches on...

I’ve followed the Irish economy story, for many years before this thread. The heyday was built on a property boom which later collapsed further than anyone else’s and allowing vast US corporations to shelter their European or global profits. It was not an economic miracle, a scaled down...

I thought the same thing. A devout Socialist, desperate for jobs and tax revenues, allowing tax avoiding multinationals in from the US. [For those unaware, Ireland, Lux and Netherlands all have tiny corporation rates for non-EU multinationals basing their HQ there. Allowing the likes of Dell...

A tiny economy, gained by being a tax haven for cheats such as Dell. Which the EU Commission was furious about. That plus colossal grants created the Celtic Tiger. A phrase not heard for a very long time now, because it effectively collapsed in 2008 with Portugal, Greece, Spain and Italy. It...