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 […]
We reproduce here an important briefing by the Brexit Facts4EU team on the Irish border. Using sources already in the public domain, they show how how the EU – with the willing collaboration of the Irish government – has deliberately […]
CIB committee member Michael McGough offers some thoughts on the ongoing Irish backstop conundrum. As if a Brexit-blocking parliament isn’t enough, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is still faced with an intransigent Leo Varadkar and his career Euro-federalists, who are more […]
Irish journalist Fintan O’Toole fails to spot the hypocrisy in his accusation that rhetoric could damage Anglo-Irish relations. His fellow countryman Professor Anthony Coughlan of Trinity College Dublin suggests that rather than trying to thwart Brexit, the Irish government should […]
Switzerland is holding out against EU bullying tactics to try and force it further into line with EU law. From cutting off Swiss stock exchanges to threatening energy supplies, the EU is effectively applying sanctions against its wayward democratic neighbour. […]
We publish below an open letter by Prof Anthony Coughlan of Trinity College Dublin addressed to Marian Finucane, a radio presenter on Ireland’s RTÉ Radio 1. RTÉ is Ireland’s state broadcaster, i.e. the Irish equivalent of the BBC. Readers may notice […]
