Surprisingly, Mr Steinitz has raised VAT from 15.5% to 16.5% (but had to drop a proposal to levy it on fruit and vegetables), while embarking on a seven-year plan gradually to reduce companytax and incometax instead.
You could place your copyrights or patents into a company in, say, Bermuda, where there is no corporate incometax at all, then charge the company in Ireland for the use of those copyrights and or patents.