Do you have a source for this? I'm having a hard time finding that they did not pay.

Well, I mean, yeah, it's not a bill of attainder, and they get to appeal. For something like this, a company will _always_ appeal, even if they are sure they cannot win the appeal, because then they get to hold onto a billion dollars for an extra year or so, and the value of that is far greater than any legal fees they're likely to incur.

> Probably never will, perhaps in exchange for some job creation

That bit I'd be more dubious on. Ireland's courts are very independent (sometimes to the point of comedy, for instance see the incident a decade ago where the courts found that the legal mechanism used to ban most drugs was invalid: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/10/irish-es-are-s... , leading to ecstasy, ketamine etc becoming legal for a day). It's not a US-style highly-politicised court system, and even if the government wanted to influence the eventual outcome, it doesn't really have levers to do so.

They're cranking through the process, but, like, unless the GDPR is found to be _unconstitutional_ (seems implausible, given the enormous amount of constitutional scrutiny that EU law has already had), they're probably looking at paying once the process comes to an end.