Yep we have all those massive US tech giants here, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn, twitter etc. due to the tax laws. The amount of people they employ makes up for the tax not paid.
Google are taking over half of Dublin City though, they've already several offices and are building several more and acquiring land for future use. Azure North European cloud servers are in Dublin also, as well as EA's, makes me blaming lag for being killed a bit of a stretch.
Any teens that sounded American were south siders, you wouldn't find that talk on the Northside, real Dublin folk up here.
Ask KJ if I sound American.