Stop criticising Ireland

Colette Browne is on the anti-tax haven bandwagon in her recent column (Opinion, May 22).

I am sure the workers who depend for their livelihoods on the companies that Ms Browne is attacking will not be too pleased. Ms Browne would be better off looking into the tax regimes of much more self-important, and powerful countries to see what they are doing.

Joining an international bandwagon of powerful countries, by having a go at this small democratic republic for its tax regime - a republic which was subject to economic exploitation during hundreds of years of colonisation — is facile. It was obviously more difficult to highlight the dangers during the Celtic Tiger period which eventually rendered this country bankrupt under the noses of its media.