yeah building the infrastructure and granting large subsidies wasn't the reason for Intel and others to get settled in Dublin area, it was Jamesons and tin flutes....
(nothing against the later)
Actually no, it was the young educated workforce willing to work hard to make it work and our low corporation tax - you know that tax you euro-weenies are constantly telling us we should raise? 26% in the Germany, 12.5% in Ireland - who do you think Intel are gonna choose?
It was Tax-designated zones, the brainchild of Eire - you know, the things you Eurosocialists are trying to get rid of - that brought Intel to Ireland. If it was subsidies, then why didn't Intel establish it's European HQ in Germany?? I mean, that is what the EU is about - the Franco-German Pact trying to economically control the rest of western Europe.
I do not know why Rummenigge and Atlantic Bridge are posting at FR - they obviously believe that central economic planning builds economies, not the free market and they don't believe in Nation-State sovereignty, either.