In the late 1990s and early 2000s the Irish economy was referred to as the Celtic Tiger. Phenomenal growth in GDP occurred year after year, fuelled by high tech, service and construction industries. Anyone who visited Dublin in the past decade will have abiding memories of the city looking like one massive building site. Ireland had a highly educated population to provide the workers in these industries, 90,000 jobs were created every year and the country imported large numbers of workers from all over Europe to keep up with demand for skilled labor. Now, in 2011, the economy has all but collapsed and at the end of 2010 the Irish government had no other option but to ask for a multi billion pound bail out from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union. So where did it all go wrong?