Few companies can claim to have had the IDA create an award in their honour, and the Taoiseach and Minister for Finance join forces to present it to their boss. This is what happened at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Monday, when Apple’s CEO Tim Cook received the inaugural special recognition award from Leo Varadkar after an introduction by Paschal Donohoe.  Fewer companies can claim an Irish subsidiary reporting $156 billion in annual revenue and $14 billion in profit, or a corporate restructuring plan that forced a revision of Ireland’s national accounts after Apple onshored intellectual property licensing…

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