Ireland’s political class is facing a moment of truth. Following yesterday’s extraordinary events - with the EU temporarily triggering Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol as part of its desperate effort to manage its self-made vaccines crisis - the Dublin elites have some serious soul-searching to do.
Some EU bureaucrat screwed up. They reversed it. Irish people see through the whole Brexit farce. The EU has its faults, but it enables us to see ourselves as a nation among equals. That’s why we like it. And that’s why the Brexiteers don’t.