Raggytash."In the days after the referendum the Irish Finance Minister was rubbing his hand in glee at the number of approaches he had received from major finance organisations looking to relocate some of their operations to Dublin"

But the EU is trying to harmonise taxation throughout the EU starting with internet giants. Independant taxation underpins the nation state.
I can see where this is going!

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/european-digital-tax-as-big-a-threat-as-brexit-ministers-fear-1.3271722
I don't think the laddie above will be smirking if anything in the link comes to fruition.