The latest World Bank "Doing Business" report rankings and the WEF's "Global Competitiveness Report" rankings show Ireland in a mid-tier 1 position (24th ranked in both tables) in terms of competitiveness - hardly an enviable position.
Ireland's position marks a deterioration from 23rd rank in WEF table, driven by relatively poor performance in ICT adoption (hmmm... Silicon Docks economy is ranked 49th in the World), macroeconomic stability (ranked 34th), product markets competitiveness (35th), and financial system (42nd).
Full WEF report here:
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2019.pdf and full WB report here:
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/32436/9781464814402.pdf WB country profile for Ireland:
https://www.doingbusiness.org/content/dam/doingBusiness/country/i/ireland/IRL.pdf.
A summary chart for Ireland from WB report:
Which, again shows poor performance in the area of credit supply, as well as trading across the border (correlated to the effective market size), but also in access to electricity, registering property, dealing with construction permits, and enforcing contracts.
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