That was part of why I started this thread. I’ve read a lot about tax advantages and TER, and lately began to feel as if there was sort of a consensus on this forum about preferring low-TER funds and US-domiciled funds over Irish ones.
Also swap funds seemed to get a bad reputation here (fairly recently been referred to as swap-based crap.)
I fully agree. Though that doesn’t really seem to be point of contention in this community, does it? 
Instead, isn’t a great share of discussion taking place here (and I just reaffirmed this to me by skimming through recent threads) exactly about that? Optimizing for these elusive few basic points? Like the 15% residual withholding tax on a dividend yield of slightly less than 2% on the S&P 500 index…