In 2013 Enda Kenny, taoiseach/ prime minister, boasted that Ireland had become the new “Digital Capital of the World” and if that had to have any substance it had to relate to Dublin, Ireland’s capital city, as a significant global tech hub or cluster. A shock announcement on Wednesday should induce a reality check as Finfacts has been arguing for years — giving hype and delusion primacy over substance inevitably ends in disappointment.