30 years ago, all of this was just a disused dockyard. You had rusty cranes, empty warehouses. Ireland's economy was was really struggling.There was massive unemployment. Young people were leaving in their droves to try and find jobs elsewhere. And then the government decided to take a massive gamble, which wasn't uncontroversial at the time.They slashed the corporate tax rate to 12 and a half% which is way lower than you find in other developed countries. And it worked. That tax cut along with a suite of g ...