Should ireland exit the euro

Some has been due to the bumbling leadership of Ursula Von Der Leyen, a Prussian conservative whom no one in Ireland has ever had the chance to vote for or against.

The situation is made worse by the fact that the ever EU loyal Irish Government has so far refused to try and buy additional vaccines outside the EU procurement programme because it does not want to diplomatically embarrass its friends in Brussels.

The Hungarian government, despite also being in the EU, has purchased one million doses of the Russian Sputnik vaccine which, from all the evidence, works as well as any of the others, and better than some. A moment of temporary madness, in which Ms Von Der Leyen appeared to be channelling some variant of Basil Fawlty in reverse, it also spoke of an almost colonial arrogance which makes Insider picture Hapsburg ministers in Vienna signing decrees relating to parts of Poland or Slovakia they had no intention of ever visiting.

Here again, Insider thinks it is clear, when nudge comes to shove, the European Commission do not have our best interests anywhere near their hearts - and we have no direct means of voting them out.

We are currently in the Euro. The North uses Sterling. Pro-Euro voices will say the 32 counties should trade, with each other and the world, in euros, and indeed, it is not easy to break free from the euro. However, if Ireland wants real independence, and the power to make the economic transformation a United Ireland would need to, such as investing massively in areas like the Shankill Road and Dublin 8, then we must be able to do so without every step of the way having to ask the ECB and the EU Commission's permission.

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Let's not try to renegotiate the protocol. This is definitely not our aim and I believe that we can find the good solution to the outstanding issues," Sefcovic told a news conference. McEntee stuck to that line on the Today programme, saying the UK had given undertakings to ensure there was no return to the borders of the past.

In addition, she said, Ireland would hold the UK to its role as co-guarantor of the Good Friday agreement. We respect that it was a democratic decision. We are protecting a peace process.