User blog comment:Saturn120/Alternate Axis Changes/@comment-4919678-20140411225231/@comment-7576024-20140412060107

Ummm.... no. Seems to me just a way to set up an Irish wank. Ireland having nukes? States with nukes are all world powers or really close to it. Furthermore, Ireland has 4.5 million in OTL, and that is without a costly and deadly invasion.

List of Nuclear Powers:

US, Russia, China, France, UK

India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea

The smallest of these states, Israel, has over 7 million people, and the next smallest, the DPRK has 23 million people.

You are also putting the Irish as the economic equivalent of the Canadians, Australians, or Indians, which is a long shot. (In OTL Ireland is ranked about 45)

Simply put, the Irish could not have become powerful as a result of an invasion by the Nazis.