Why Ireland’s knowledge industries will lead the nation to economic recovery is the title of Silicon Republic's article. I'm scratching my head a bit, I always thought Ireland's main industry was exporting value added products and pharmaceuticals etc..., and it is not as knowledge based as it wants to be. Partly due to low numbers of students going into third level education science and engineering. This may be changing now as a result of the economic down turn as doing "Business course" might not be the best idea in the world. The Tougher criteria for work permits doesn't really bode well in creating a high end knowledge based economy especially when they could now be snapping up quality American/Asian/Australian migrant workers. To top that off, the increase in taxes, the high cost of living and government levies also doesn't make it too attractive for prospective workers.

The recent slap in the face of an emergency budget and the collapsing (or collapsed) property market has really screwed with the 30 somethings who have recently bought a house and have started a family. It wouldn't be inconceivable that some of these families might leave Ireland for a better place. Ireland will once more be a great exporter of people :P I'm not sure how Ireland will build a knowledge based industry.

Some times I wonder what these guys are smoking, cause I want some to smoke as well. But it's mostly WTF?