Pharmaceuticals, IT and farming. Ireland exports enough food to feed about 30 million people - when you think of the landmass and a population smaller than London then it's not difficult to see why it has a trade surplus. Not sure about EU subsidies for farming, but yes, down with that sort of thing.
And as has been asked before, if it's such an onerous contract (c) RIFC 2012 why were/are they so desperate to keep us? Love? Tradition? Unionism? Altruism?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...omy-starting-to-fire-all-cylinders-imf-report So a handful of rich ****s are using the low taxes to make even more money. Sounds ****ing great.
The Guardian is sometimes known for putting a pessimistic slant on good economic news but yes - the problem with Ireland's economy is that lots of the growth is in the highly educated end, with the likes of Google and Microsoft paying high wages - while the likes of builders earn **** all after the crash. Stay in school kids.
The IMF cheers Ireland’s strong record of growth since it emerged from its international bailout in 2013, but points to the significant role of “contracted manufacturing”, under which multinationals score production in Ireland for tax purposes even though the goods may never cross the Irish border. The practice may have added as much as two percentage points to GDP in the first three quarters of 2014 alone, the IMF calculates. Even the ****ty jobs that could be created aren't, they're just pretending. So the Irish recovery is based on European tax-payer funding and rich ****s basing themselves there to make themselves even richer. You must be ****ing confused about it...
Ireland is just about to be quids in. The EU will shortly do away with farming quotas and Ireland is well placed to take advantage considering they have been fined for the last few years for ignoring them.
Up to 400 migrants, including children, are feared drowned after a boat capsized off Libya on Tuesday, leaving only about 150 survivors. Since Friday, 8,500 people have been rescued from the Mediterranean after trying to sail from the north African coast, according to the UN Refugee Agency. The numbers are expected to climb rapidly, with EU border agency Frontex predicting that over 500,000 people are waiting to set sail from Libya over the summer, but migrants are likely to use other routes too. Dying to get here This is the challenge facing Italy and other EU countries including the UK, which have proved prime destinations for migrants in the past. Thousands of people are risking death to seek a better life, but the UK's political parties have starkly different views on how to deal with migrants' determination to reach Europe's shores. Last year the UK Foreign Office said it would not support future search and rescue operations in order to prevent migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean sea. It said such operations can encourage more people to attempt the perilous sea crossing, but offered support to a new European effort to enforce European border security. What a ****ing bunch of ****s
Well, I got offered two fairly well paid jobs in Dublin last year which I knocked back, mostly because of tax and cost of living. I haven't had a sniff of a well paid job in 10 years since leaving Northern Ireland.
It's called being richer than yow but I'm not sure what point you are making, certainly not a counter point to what I've been saying. Perhaps just for general info as you were worried that oirland wasn't being mentioned enough?
I know how you take your national pride very seriously, with that lovely rant from Boris about British produced cars.
It is, from an environmental point of view, but those poor ****s have very little to do with that. If you want to kill yourself feel free to
You don't help the local economy, you just order stuff from Amazon and avoid paying taxes. The world needs less people like you, not more
