There’s a letter in today’s Irish Times from Dublin Chamber of Commerce. As it’s a subscription site I’m unsure about copyright, but essentially the same message is delivered here.The letter stresses that theme that Dublin is not competing with other Irish regions, repeating the message given at the launch of the last IDA annual report that foreign direct investment goes to city regions with a population of more than a million people. Dublin is the only Irish city capable of offering that scale. Hamstring the city and cut off our own nose.

Yet, much of the the rhetoric of regional debate is about hamstringing the city and denying it investment as if this will cause prosperity to go to Tobercurry instead of just head abroad.

Any suggestions for how this perennial block on Irish development created by the regional mindset might be mitigated?

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