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The facilities are a quietly purring economic engine, injecting billions in investment, employment and anchoring the tech multinationals which, coupled with big pharma, fund over half of Ireland's corporate-tax take, according to analysts.

David Cameron was rapped on the knuckles when he claimed the late queen "purred" down the phone line when he told her the result of the Scottish referendum.

When the hands are focused on my back, I’m awash in a full-body buzz of calm, as if my entire nervous system were a purring cat.

"Tee off on a trail of history," the club history purrs.

That voice is all purr and growl, like a lion clawing its way through velvet.