“FDI” We can longer sit on our laurels. President Trump is introducing tariffs, reducing corporate tax rate and we all know the term “MAGA” and “MAHA”. We have been home for decades now to what gave us the “Tech Tiger” now we have to up our negotiations if we intend to get these companies to remain in Ireland. See X from esteemed economist Dan O’Brien, Note our reliance on the Pharmaceutical business.

Dan O’Brien

@danobrien20

Here are Irish goods exports by category last year. Note: export earnings from pharmachem were 25 times those of food and drink (including the booming whiskey industry).

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Dan O’Brien

@danobrien20

6th November 2024

Irish trade numbers are inflated by transfer pricing, but 70,000 people are currently employed in what @CSOIreland calls ‘basic pharma products and preparations’ alone. 75% of Irish goods exports to the US are accounted for by the pharmachem sector. x.com/danobrien20/st…

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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