Former Irish ambassador Dr Ray Bassett explains how the country’s Establishment is overrun with a pro-EU groupthink. The Irish people have been subject to unremitting pro-EU propaganda for decades, but the myth that the country’s prosperity depends on EU membership […]
Professor Anthony Coughlan, Emeritus Professor of Trinity College Dublin, explains how Boris Johnson’s election victory in December 2019 shocked the Irish Establishment and media into stunned silence. For three and a half years they blithely assumed that Brexit could be […]
Nigel Dodds, the Deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party who leads the party’s MPs in Westminster, responded to the recent Queen’s Speech by saying, “Let me make it very clear – I believe when people voted in the European […]
Professor Anthony Coughlan, the veteran Irish pro-withdrawalist, was invited to make a submission to the Irish Senate’s Special Select Committee on Brexit on 1st June. Professor Coughlan explained that, in his opinion, the most rational and sensible course for the […]
Ireland joined the EU, along with the UK and Denmark, in 1973. With its important agricultural sector very dependent on exporting to the UK, the Irish really had very little choice. Many Irish men and women developed an enthusiasm for […]
By Anthony Coughlan The Republic of Ireland joined the then European Economic Community in 1973 primarily because Britain and Northern Ireland did so. Now a group of Irish economists and lawyers of which I was rapporteur have produced a report […]
