Ireland a dynamic, lively, modern country with a young population and a successful, technologically orientated economy.
Ireland is an English-speaking country with close links to UK and USA, where Irish Americans form a high proportion of the population.
Ireland is part of European Union and of the increasingly integrated European Education Area. Ireland is Global in outlook - for several centuries Irish people have emigrated to and settled in many countries around the globe and today they come to Ireland from all over the world.