Why does it take so long for IKEA to settle near Dublin ?
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Well, is Ireland the country where things always need such long discussions before "things happen" ?

I know the IKEA stores in Switzerland (since about 20 years), France, Italy....so why does it take so long for IKEA to be...accepted in Ireland, near Dublin ?

Is this country really facing its economical development in the right way (roads are a "lovely" example as well as high prices, and an exorbitant VTA+ transport fees, etc...) ?

In all the countries where IKEA has stores, the roads did not have to be especially...adapted.

The M50 will be absolutely OK. As well as other nearby roads. The invoqued reasons seem more political and typically regional : the furniture shops doubtless try to "do their best" to stop the IKEA implantation which I find unfair.

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Richard

Ikea took a long time to settle in Ireland because of an Irish law that stated that stores could be no bigger than a certain size. Ikea, as we all know, has a standard size for all of its stores and found it too difficult to accord to the law and downsize so heavily. After some legal bargaining, there is now an Ikea in Ireland!