It’s time for Ireland to stand up to the EU

[cromwell]

interesting barry , gerry hasnt got much to say .

Yep he logged on and looked at this and logged off again.....still it can wait

[DeppityDawg]

interesting barry , gerry hasnt got much to say .

Thomas, I think it might be starting to dawn on some of our more ardent and blinkered remainers, that all is not well in the EU garden.

[Thomas]

Gerry? What do you think? Ireland is the EU and the EU is Ireland, that's still true, isn't it?

interesting barry , gerry hasnt got much to say .

[Streetwalker]

Ireland certainly needs to fight its own corner . The EU have made it quite clear that Ireland has no seat at the top table .
The EU for all its threats to the UK about the Irish border when dealing with brexit seemed quite happy to install a border when it suited .The EU have been shown at its incompetent worst with the vaccine rollout which may make some  nations question its purpose , I would expect Ireland to be one of them .

[cromwell]

Gerry? What do you think? Ireland is the EU and the EU is Ireland, that's still true, isn't it?

Only when it suits the eu.

[Barry]

Gerry? What do you think? Ireland is the EU and the EU is Ireland, that's still true, isn't it?

[Thomas]

It's time for Ireland to stand up to the EU

Ireland's political class is facing a moment of truth. Following yesterday's extraordinary events — with the EU temporarily triggering Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol as part of its desperate effort to manage its self-made vaccines crisis — the Dublin elites have some serious soul-searching to do.

They must now ask themselves if they are willing to be members of this institution that has just treated them with such contempt; which has just signalled in front of the entire world that it does not take Irish sovereignty or Irish democracy very seriously at all.

Contempt is not too strong a word for what the EU has just done to Ireland. Let's leave to one side what the EU's overriding of the Brexit deal and temporary triggering of Article 16 tells us about its view of the UK. We already knew that the commissioners and bureaucrats of the Brussels establishment were not well disposed to us Brits, given we voted for Brexit and then had the temerity to get our vaccination programme up and running more swiftly and efficiently than the EU did. Brussels is likely to be mad at us for a long time to come.

But Ireland, we were told, was different. The EU loved Ireland. It respected Ireland. It would always stand up for Irish interests. That's what EU spokespeople and their cheerleaders in both Dublin and London said again and again over the past couple of years. The EU absolutely would not allow Brexit to hurt Ireland. There would be no hard border, no division between north and south, no messing about with the Good Friday Agreement. No way. That was the EU's red line, we were told.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/it-s-time-for-ireland-to-stand-up-to-the-eu