Talk:Celtic Tiger

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There should really be a mention of the growth in employment in the causes. Most of the litreature identifies it as a primary driver of growth. Went up from about 1.2m to 1.8m from 1994-2005. I'd also be careful with using productivity growth as a driver of growth. The big NFI due to transfer pricing distorts it as a real measure of growth.

umm.. what does this mean? "The USA grew only 0.3% in April, May and June 2002 [b]when compared to [/b]the same months in 2001. " -- Cogent 03:14, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

This got featured without any mention of who drew the tiger and when it first appeared? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 09:37, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Has the tiger got to be gray? @@ It clashes with the green, and IMHO it looks ugly... =S

There should be a detailed mention of the impact of being the Number 1 receiver per/head of EU funds helped (and helps) the Irish economy. I don't know the exact stats, but its considerable (there is mention of the EU in the article, but its rather brief) CJWilly

No doubt it has had an affect but Ireland has been a net contributor to EU funds now for the last couple of years -Paul

Contents 1 Cartoon 2 Dot-com 3 Shocked and Appalled 4 Economist Covers

[edit] Cartoon

Nice cartoon and all that, but the caption doesn't ring true to me: "Cartoon of the Celtic Tiger - the press media in Ireland use pictures of green striped tigers to symbolise or sometimes mock the Celtic Tiger". They do? Having lived in Ireland throughout this period I'm not aware of a single example of this. --Ryano 10:18, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Great that you like my little cartoon. I live in Mullingar, County Westmeath and have been there right through the boom and I've seen plenty of cartoon tigers in the newspapers and business magazines. In particular the Irish Independent's business supplement on a thursday uses celtic tiger cartoons virtually ever couple of weeks on page 2 (the uusual place for economic commentary). I've also seen it on a more irregular basis in other periodicals. CGorman 18:53, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I must admit I rarely look at the Indo. --Ryano 22:14, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

I usually read it on weekdays... but its a disgrace on Sundays, theres never any news in it on a Sunday apart from tabloid rubbish. On a Sunday I usually read the Sunday Times, which althought over-british, contains excellent business, culture and property supplements. Anyways I think I recall seeing the tiger image in Business Plus magazine sometime ago and probaly in some other magazine, can't remember which thought. I actually created the image to prep the article for the FA status and for main page. CGorman 20:22, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dot-com

Not much mention of the dot-com bubble, which coincided with the Celtic Tiger pretty much. While there are indeed other factors in the Celtic Tiger growth, I would suggest that the dot-com boom was a major factor. (Surely some editors from Ireland remember the massive IT spending by companies that previously had little computing equipment, and more by those who already had some IT and expanded their web presence, network infrastructure, and megalomaniac paperless office schemes?)

zoney ♣ talk 15:58, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Zoney! Great to see you are still addicted to the wiki! I agree more could be said about the IT bubble, but im just too thinly spread to do it myslef at the moment (Wikinews is booming!) Althought it most be remembered the IT bubble was a global thing that effected every country not just Ireland. CGorman 13:23, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shocked and Appalled

That the Causes section doesn't mention the Stuttgart Effect :) --Kiand 18:44, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Economist Covers

Does anyone have a copy of the covers of the economist magazine from 1988 and 1997 which featured Ireland. One read "Ireland: poorest of the rich" and the other "Ireland: Europe's shining light." I like the cartoon tiger but think he looks more like a logo than an actual demonstration of the boom. --sony-youth 18:09, 13 November 2006 (UTC)