Barry Malone

A key point omitted is if Jim Gavin gets 12.5% of the vote taxpayer pays Fianna Fáil election expenses up to €250k.

If Breda O’Brien knew but failed to include this important point it calls the article in to question. If she didn’t know it calls in to question why she is writing on the subject.

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In my layman’s opinion not only do your EU neighbours place huge importance on the ECHR as a basic guarantee of a minimum standard of human rights but an absolute block is that some cannot constitutionally agree renegotiating such as info sharing & extradition without commensurate controls (ECHR)

Ireland paid at least €709m in interest to UK for bailout loan Britain's bar on early repayment helped make it one of the most lucrative state-to-state loans ever advanced

It’s not forgotten and was welcome but don’t pretend it was a purely altruistic action. It protected a severely exposed UK banking sector, was commercially very lucrative for UK, and of all creditors of the time only UK didn’t facilitate early repayment.

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You are correct … Sweden don’t have an opt out and have a commitment to join when they meet the necessary conditions. A condition for all future EU applicants which UK agreed to.

It really isn’t difficult - even the countries that opted out (including the UK) agreed future applicants to join EU would sign up to the Euro.

because they (like the UK) were members when Euro was introduced and they only way to move forward with Euro was to allow opt outs for EXISTING members … see it’s not difficult to understand why UK is now in a different position if it applies for membership

No answers so resorts to abuse. Bye

There are 35 chapters of the EU Acquis defining what rejoin means. No UK party has a credible plan to grow the economy and/or raise taxes and/or targeted spending cuts and “Moving On” is being trotted out to close down conversation calling that out.

You studiously avoided the point and made a very obvious and poor attempt to change the topic. Bye

Quite simple really - politicians to stop using vacuous phrases like “Moving On” and provide actual policies with detail

I’m just amazed the British public haven’t learned from seeing bluffers like Farage and Johnson use empty phrases like “Brexit means Brexit” to avoid defining the consequences and now allowing chancers to use similar silly phrases like “Moving On” to avoid putting forward actual policies.

It seems like “Moving on” is the new “Brexit means Brexit”. An empty undefined phrase that allows people to avoid facing up to the consequences of their choices. Not making a choice is a choice and typically one that most people wouldn’t make.

Yes. The difference is that then the people sending the meat committed an offence in their country, now no offence would be committed in the originating country. Invites food unfit for human consumption to be dumped on UK market. And now no checks!!! Madness!!!

Someone in an EU country is committing an offence in their country if they supply food unfit for human consumption into the food chain in Single Market - they are not committing an offence in shipping the same product to UK. Bad people do bad things !!

Funny to see 37% blame the EU. I suppose these are mainly the muppets who thought they voted to have all the benefits of SM and CU without having to follow the same rules as everyone else.

In addition to what is called out in the article a significant volume of online sales to Ireland has been lost. This doesn’t just impact the big players (Irish people now instinctively go to amazon.de) but many small, specialist businesses have seen a sizeable chunk of sales disappear for good.

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I suggest it’s easier to leave an impossible ask on the table than explain the technical complexities and why it is an impossible ask to the public.

What? - I might be wrong here but my understanding is UK was looking for youth mobility with individual/specific EU countries and EU said no, it has to be youth mobility deal with all EU countries - rather than an EU ask youth mobility is EU response to UK attempt to treat EU states differently.

What’s in it for EU? I think it strange to expect EU to reopen CTA and put time & energy behind getting 27 countries to agree to MRCA just because …

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There appears to be an expectation for EU to move towards the UK position!! With the UK redlines I think we already have the “maximum possible trade relations consistent with our red lines”

I suggest UK joining SM is a bigger redline than giving EU courts oversight of data sharing so in your words “that’s not where we are politically” … and calls to scrap ETA & ETAS only helps the “make Brexit work” brigade to blame EU for UK choices

It shouldn’t happen. It would be criminal to allow people’s personal data be shared without appropriate legal controls. UK opted out of those legal controls and continue to waste everybody’s time with these silly requests to ignore logical outcome of UK choices and redlines.

Politically where we are is that current border controls satisfactory for EU and would not be politically or most probably legally possible to agree to sharing sensitive, personal data with UK without oversight - same applies to US - so not going to happen

that’s not a runner unless UK drops its redlines on being subject to EU courts.

These controls (agreed when UK was a member) became necessary due to UK opting out of sharing data. They provide an inferior way to know and screen who is entering your country and equally apply to USA, Canada etc.

Poem by Pat Ingoldsby A Message For When I Am Gone Ireland It is little or no favours you ever did for me or my poems When I was alive I have this terrible feeling That someone After I am gone You will swing into Your usual Rearguard action So Posthumously In advance Shove it up your arse

Very sad to see the poet and general sharp observer of life Pat Ingoldsby has died. So, as he prepared for this event, here's to Pat. 🥃

agree 100% on this point, and not claiming UK always the villain but I do believe UK was an exception wrt Ireland in insisting on punitive interest rates after the financial system had settled down