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Former taoiseach says ‘time, understanding and example’ needed to reach a solution to impasse

In 1825, Daniel O’Connell was invited by the House of Lords Select Committee to give a first-hand account of the living conditions in Ireland, which he did in graphic detail. The UK government was alarmed so it set up a royal commission chaired by the Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Richard Whately, who was also an economist. The commission sat for three years and produced a report in 1836 which has a number of voluminous appendices which contain a vast amount of information of great historical value. (They are available at UCD Library Cultural Heritage Collections.) The difficulty was...

Electorate didn't give its consent to this disruptive EU departure 31 December, 2020 00:59 The Brexiteers did gain a mandate for Brexit, in principle if not in practice, via their narrow referendum victory. Boris Johnson has, however, effectively delivered a ‘hard Brexit’. As a damage limitation exercise it does little to mitigate the adverse economic consequences of Brexit. The UK could have chosen to remain in the customs union – the optimum free trade agreement (FTA). It could have remained in the single market avoiding non-tariff barriers. It could have remained in...