Ireland’s relations with the European Union are coming under significant pressure. Brexit sees our nearest neighbour exit the political project into which we have spent nearly half a century locking ourselves. Brexit minister David Davis indicated last week the UK might opt for a “hard Brexit” and quit the EU’s single market. The open internal borders that are an integral part of that market have operated as a transmission system for an apocalyptic refugee/migration crisis that continues to worsen. Meanwhile, developed-world voters are increasingly turning against globalisation and the self-interested behaviour of corporations and banks at the top of the…

Source: The Times September 10, 2016 22:52 UTC