A good article on the afterthought that was Ireland on the run up to the Brexit vote
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/...3242732?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
And on the EU influence on N.Irl. This is close to the point I was trying to make.
"Being removed forcibly from a broader European context was dismaying. Not because I idolised Jean Claude Juncker or kept framed judgments of the European Court next to my bed. Because I felt instinctively that Europe had something to do with accommodating people like me. And much more importantly, part of accommodating the troubled place I came from."
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/...3242732?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
And on the EU influence on N.Irl. This is close to the point I was trying to make.
"Being removed forcibly from a broader European context was dismaying. Not because I idolised Jean Claude Juncker or kept framed judgments of the European Court next to my bed. Because I felt instinctively that Europe had something to do with accommodating people like me. And much more importantly, part of accommodating the troubled place I came from."