Understandably the Irish government will try to get as much out of this for Ireland as possible, and so they should. But they don't have much of the needed in-house skills, so they will need to go outside for most of them. It will be a good auction: the potential reserves are big, if you believe their estimates.
It is quite a hostile area to operate, but there is a fair amount of experience from the gas fields.
It would be nice to get a similar result from drilling on the other side of the Celtic Sea, but no luck so far.