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  Yes there has always been a tradition of American companies in Ireland going way back a long time before the European Union was ever heard of. The Americans got a secure workforce in Ireland, a workforce that accepted lower pay than their American counterparts, and all worked out well for both the americans and the irish. The products made at a guess went back to the American market as there was no single european market of any kind. A whole series of red tape ridded countries made up what was a european market recovering from war.
  
  I had a relation or two working for US companies in fact but nevertheless all this didnt make Ireland wealthy as this kind of US cooperation was relatively small. Irelands main export continued to be its people looking for work.
  
  With the European Union Ireland found a new drive, a new pride, more jobs and so on. Greater investment in services and facilities followed, greater interest from companies looking for good tax breaks and a solid foothold in Europe, and all was going well. I think they saw themselves as mightily independent forgetting about the hand that fed them...for a while!

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