7/9/2014: The Neighbourhood We Are In: Dublin as Global Financial Centre

Look who ranks as an offshore financial centre as opposed to regional or global or niche / specialist centre? Why... of course it is...

And what a neighbourhood we occupy... Lux, Guernsey, Caymans, Bermuda and Isle of Man... all, presumably, trading on their human capital, skills, world class education, innovation, R&D, state policies for development of entrepreneurship, rigorous world class quality regulations. etc, etc, and strictly transparent benign taxation regime...