The IDA’s Brexit playbook for 2018
Ireland’s opportunity is the IDA’s difficulty: how do you land the big fish of finance without damaging those all-important Anglo-Irish relations?
In the wake of the Brexit vote, it was confidently predicted that the City of London, the beating heart of European banking, insurance and financial services, would be destroyed. Who would pick up the much-valued prize?
Report after report from management consultants and advisory firms outdid each other for estimates on how many jobs a hollowed-out London would lose as a result. One report put it as high as 75,000. It might easily ...