KEVIN MYERS: “Ireland has the ultra-luxury of now being full with sanctimonious preachers of unarmed piety and drugs-lords fleeing war while hosting the operations of four US companies that between them generate nearly 60% of Ireland’s tax-take.”
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And what about the synopsis from AI when you ask to clarify the 4 companies
AI Overview
Apple, Microsoft, Google (Alphabet), and Pfizer are the primary drivers of Irish corporate tax revenue, with these, along with firms like
Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson, often cited as contributing over 50% of the state’s corporation tax. These US multinationals dominate income due to high-value manufacturing and intellectual property holdings. Reddit +4
Key details regarding income generation in Ireland:
Top Tax Contributors:Apple and Microsoft are the largest contributors, paying more in corporate tax combined than the 3rd to 10th highest payers combined.
Top 10 Domination: The top 10 corporate taxpayers, all American multinationals, paid 56% of all Irish corporate tax in 2021.
Sector Leaders: Beyond tech, pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson are critical to the Irish tax base.
Largest Revenue (Irish-based):CRH is consistently ranked as one of the largest Irish-headquartered companies by revenue. Reddit +2
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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