Facing debt problems, Ireland picks tax status over bailout deal - The Globe and Mail

Facing debt problems, Ireland picks tax status over bailout deal - The Globe and Mail: "Ireland’s stance stems in good part from its desire to protect its rock-bottom corporate tax status, the feature credited with launching its economic miracle in the 1990s, turning one of western Europe’s poorest countries into one of its wealthiest, with remarkable speed, analysts and economists say."