Great Hot take but it does go wider than this. Ireland profited at the expense of almost all other economies in the double irish-dutch sandwich nonsense, and so there is a bit more than just "shady deal we want in" here.
Tax exists for a reason. Avoiding tax exists for other reasons. Which side you are on depends on what you think about money, planning, and the economy at large.
I mainly worry that Ireland didn't spend the money very wisely. Not to say that the other people's economies that missed the taxes don't have some make-up to come.
Because rest assured, by allowing Apple to pay LESS tax to Irelant, what happened is other places where real trade took place missed out on VAT/GST income.
