# Ireland's Silent Sell Off and the Employee Ownership Solution

An episode of [The David McWilliams Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1462649946), 6 Jul 2026, 32 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/e/6a4b71b05b22488bcdae647e/media.mp3

Every day that the Irish Financial Service Centre is open, they're selling an Irish business into foreign ownership. Since 2018, overseas acquirers have spent over €100 billion buying up Irish companies. I'm joined by Alan Coleman to look at why this is happening. We look at employee ownership trusts as a solution already working in the UK and Canada, the tax barriers holding it back in Ireland, and the surprising historical Irish precedent for the idea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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