INTRODUCTION Ireland has transformed its economy over the past couple of decades to turn a previously slumping economy, with high unemployment and high dependence on agricultural sectors into a booming economy, attractive to foreign investors. Unemployment rates have decreased dramatically and Ireland is now experiencing a reversal of the previous exodus of local residents overseas, with the thriving country now attracting highly skilled immigrants as well as ex-patriots returning to their now thriving homeland. This …showed first 75 words of 4895 total…

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