Alan Healy: Can Ireland foster a dynamic domestic economy?

Stripe founders John and Patrick Collison have first-hand knowledge of scaling a company outside Ireland.

Ireland's ongoing efforts to rebalance an economy heavily reliant on multinationals is facing a difficult question: do we have the dynamism, the financing and leadership talent to generate the kind of technological progress that can underpin growth for the next 20 years?

The country is still bearing the scars of an economic crash caused by a construction bubble and is attempting to resolve the growing chorus of warning signs related to an overreliance on foreign firms for the bulk of our tax receipts and income taxes.