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"Ireland, once a proud republic of ideas and insurgents, now resembles a serfdom for supranational capital. It is time – long past time – for a reckoning. The question is not whether this gilded scaffolding will crumble. It is whether we will have the courage to build something real in its place." Business Post editorial May 2025

That's not a paragraph we expected to read from the SBP, so we had to dig into what was behind it. Joining us to do so is one of the authors of the Tax Mirage report, UCD Professor, Aidan Regan, and he breaks it down brilliantly. Don't miss this episode.

Read the report here:https://democracychallenged.com/2025/05/07/irelands-1-trillion-mirage-how-a-nation-became-a-vault-for-global-profits/

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