Yes, they are small and weak and had to concede to the big and powerful... And "alienating" is exactly my point: Those big and powerful don't want others to set lower tax rates than they have.
Fair, but then you should allow other countries tax stuff however they want. It's not fair saying "Ireland can lower taxes as much as they want for big tech, but countries that are food producers can't tax exports to Ireland a bit more to make up for the loss of income due to Ireland's taxation rate".
And if you allow that, what is the point of the European Union?
