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That's an assumption that lowering CT
1 was the best way to create jobs w/o too many side-effects (no expert can't judge that...)
2 significantly lowered emigration (still happening to this day...young people are still leaving ROI and NI :/ )But EU membership, definitely as it offers easy emigration if you can't find a job and the EU was instrumental in the Good Friday Agreement/gives lots of development cash back to ROI and NI, and gives NI a pot of money for peace.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say lowering CT combined with EU membership probably did more for peace in ROI than any secret talks.
Young men tend to be less likely to take up arms when there are jobs and future that doesn't involve emigration.