David McWilliams: Ireland is on a high with aviation success
Silicon Docks might be getting the headlines, but our huge and growing success in the air travel sector is even more remarkable
Not that long ago, it was an article of faith that living on the periphery of Europe was a huge economic disadvantage. The official line from Ireland was that living so far from the core of Europe was a serious drawback. It seemed like a pretty ironclad argument at the time, particularly as there was (and, ridiculously, still is) a tendency to suggest that Ireland’s future was one of closer and closer integration ...
