"the Irish government needs to be involved [...] if the data doesn’t clearly belong to a US citizen
No. Actually the CLOUD Act simply tells the involved company may file motion to a US court to quash the request if it believes the data belongs to a non US citizen.
Then a US court decides if the request should be quashed, taking into account the interests of the United States
A foreign court is never involved. That was exactly the aim of the act, otherwise it would have been exactly like before.
Moreover read what "qualifying government" means in the act - because if it is not a "qualifying government", there are even less protections.
Also, you can only "qualify" on US terms - US never sough an international agreement or treaty, just made its own law and wants to force others to abide. Hope they will be shown the middle finger.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
