I can&#x27;t speak for Dublin where Google is based, but in Cork you have Apple&#x27;s European headquarters. As a developer&#x2F;Apple user you wouldn&#x27;t know it was there. There isn&#x27;t an Apple store in the country and all products are shipped&#x2F;repaired from the UK. Since our taxes are higher and our public services worse than the UK (I used to live there) we&#x27;re probably not getting a huge amount of corporate tax from the US multi-nationals but we are getting jobs which makes the politicians look good. Saying that, there are a lot of Range Rovers around, so those directly involved with the multi-nationals are getting rich though it&#x27;s not really trickling down.