Ireland’s day of reckoning
Sir: John Waters is more right than he knows when he talks about the Irish attitude to Brexit (‘Paddy powerless’, 13 October). We Irish and our media have developed a consensus gene across many issues — without exception, all comfortably on the left. There is no significant media outlet in Ireland that would challenge in any way the prevailing orthodoxy here, which is that Brexit is an act of national self-harm. There is a certain smugness too, which is getting in the way of the reality, which is that we of all people should want Brexit to work to the benefit of both the EU and the UK. Our day of reckoning is coming. We will see how Europhile we are when Emmanuel Macron gets his way and corporate tax rates across the EU are harmonised.
Tommy MacDonnell
Dublin, Ireland
Racing certainty
Sir: Robin Oakley’s description of the likely difficulties in replicating, post-Brexit, the Tripartite Agreement between the UK, Ireland and France (The turf, 13 October) fails to make an obvious point.
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