[darkr]

Google and Facebook may well be headquartered there, but I suspect it's more for tax reasons than the Guinness.

[puzz]

Tax reasons or not, people are actually moving there. A lot of my former colleagues moved to Ireland (from Croatia).

Now Ireland has both: human capital and tax reasons.

[kkarakk]

again ireland>croatia does not equate ireland>london or whatever amazing place you're already living in.

[ropiku]

They do need the HQ for tax reasons but they wouldn't need to hire that many people (more than in London for example). They do that because they want to.