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Lunch with Martin Phelan: ‘Irish economic success has been more by fluke than design’
Over lunch in Pearl Brasserie, the Simmons + Simmons partner discusses the prospect of a Sinn Féin government, the illusion of Irish wealth and why Ireland’s tax critics are wrong
“Not every child who takes a cookie from the cookie jar gets caught,” Martin Phelan says, not actually referring to children or cookies. “They get the cookie.”
The Simmons + Simmons partner with over three decades experience is talking about what few people would cite as their passion in life: tax.
Phelan loves tax, and he loves it so much that while speaking to the Business Post over lunch in a booth at Pearl Brasserie, ...