Ireland is a great country

Considering the efforts they spend to prevent Russians from obtaining Irish visa, there should be something really special about Ireland, besides the fact that the only European fab of my employer is located there. (Unfortunately, this does not help to speed up the process.) The only time I could give them the passport for three weeks is this holiday season, because I am not planning to travel till the end of January. Other embassies like US, UK, Germany (and any other Schengen countries), do the same in less then a week!