Ireland is a socialist republic (though not completely free yet). Most of Europe is socialist, though Ireland managed it well in comparison (they didn’t stop reproducing to pay for it, as other European countries did, and their tax rates could still attract business and retain wealthy people).
The country that leads the European Union around by the nose is trying its utmost to coerce Ireland to raise its corporate tax rate as part of the push to “harmonize” taxes across the new “empire”. One may say all the ill things about the UK Parliament one wants, but the Irish PMs could indeed introduce legislation there and exert influence over the direction of the entire British Empire; not so in the European Union’s government where the European Parliament has no legislative power and instead acts as the European Commission’s rubber stamp (the appointed Commission has sole power to introduce bills
and the authority to pass them—no separation of powers) . . . and Ireland surely has no politicians in the Bundestag/Bundesrat. Ireland has not been free since 1972, but the sheep seem to not have woken up to that fact yet.