Last week in the ornate surroundings of Iveagh House, the home of the Department of Foreign Affairs, enterprise minister Peter Burke spoke highly of the deep links between Ireland and the Bay Area in California. The minister was in the building to launch a report examining the economic ties between the two regions. And given the Bay Area’s wealth of major tech companies that have invested in Ireland over the last 30 years, making sense of those links is pivotal, so too is deepening them. To that end, Ireland is sending an “innovation attaché” to the Irish consulate in San…