It is a very Irish way of looking at the world, but at least we’re not Switzerland.  Peering over the garden fence at our less fortunate neighbours might help us to rationalise the catastrophe that Donald Trump is unleashing on the global economy, but it won’t make the Irish pot boil. Every man, woman, and child with a dog in our economic race is banging the same drum. We are too reliant on corporation tax receipts from a tiny number of large remitters.  If Ireland Inc was a corporate entity, our enterprise value would be deeply discounted to account for…

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