Vulture funds rub salt into the carcass of this country

Meanwhile, we pay on the double

Last week, my colleagueJack Horgan-Jones revealed in this paper that vulture funds, leveraged outfits that have already benefited enormously at the expense of you, the Irish taxpayer, are now using a loophole to pay no tax at all on their earnings here.

As you shoulder some of the highest marginal rates of taxation in the western world, consider that the foreign funds which swooped on the carcass of this country are now paying ...