There are more people just in London than in all of Ireland. And London sucks in the ambitious and talented from the rest of the UK and to a lesser extent Ireland. It's also pretty accessible and attractive to the rest of the EU and not that hard to move to for most Commonwealth citizens.
And two of the world's top ten universities are in commuting distance. At a guess London's student population is larger than Ireland's too, and besides the aforementioned Oxford and Cambridge, London has two other top 100 universities, King's and Imperial.
The talent pool they'll be hiring from will probably be the EU anyway.
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There are more people just in London than in all of Ireland. And London sucks in the ambitious and talented from the rest of the UK and to a lesser extent Ireland. It's also pretty accessible and attractive to the rest of the EU and not that hard to move to for most Commonwealth citizens.
And two of the world's top ten universities are in commuting distance. At a guess London's student population is larger than Ireland's too, and besides the aforementioned Oxford and Cambridge, London has two other top 100 universities, King's and Imperial.
The talent pool they'll be hiring from will probably be the EU anyway.