In a way Ireland will become the victim of their own success. If Ireland were a test team, English counties would stop picking their players and doing all the development work as put simply, these players would no longer be considered home grown which would effect their financial reward, or they would lose those players to Ireland for the test summer. It makes them far less attractive to develop. And Ireland needs England to do that, it hasnt proved it can do it for itself.
I think one player which shows that is George Dockrell. By 2014 he had taken 70 odd wickets at Somerset for 32, a good return considering he was still 20 or 21... then in 2015 after this clamour for Irish test status, Somerset become wholly uninterested in him, dumped him to the second XI then on loan to us at the end of the season where he looked incredibly rusty, and now he has been released and hasnt got a team.
He has taken over a 100 wickets in FC cricket, is young and was considered to have a lot of talent, averages about 30..... cant get a team.
Would an English lad that young struggle to get a FC deal as a spinner? Absolutely not. In fact a guy who can spin averaging 30 and young like that would probably even be in the Lions team, or may have been capped by the full squad for a test considering the dirth of spinners. Yet he's Irish so he doesnt even have a county.
If that trend continues, Ireland will not even be qualifying for major tournaments anymore because the game is simply bigger in Asia, and the UAE/Afghan will start to push them out.