There's no need to lash out at forum users over your disgruntled opinion on the pricing. People are just trying to explain why, not rationalise why. These things do have reasons, whether you like it or not.
You're still making assumptions and not fully realising the tax. If you take off the 23% VAT it comes to ~€3156 ($3699), so the sale price you're looking at is $3,399 in the US, and $3,699 in Ireland (EU). That's still $200 more, however there are import duties on goods from outside the EU, as well as comprehensive EU warranty laws.
On the face of it you can get it cheaper in the US, but this is because in the US they don't have as much taxation compared to the EU.
Same product is HK$26,788 in Hong Kong, which has effectively no tax (Similar to the US), and the price converts to around $3,410 USD.
It's not Apple pricing themselves out of the market, it's just the horrendous taxation that occurs in the EU compared to other parts of the world. Sadly Apple won't swallow this cost and will pass it onto consumers (Partly because they should do this, as a business, and secondly they have no reason to reduce margins to sell more - they sell plenty).