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If you are relying on opinion polls you might be very disappointed opinions change and change very rapidly in today's world. As for the other countries leaving the EU and wanting referendums that's still very much on the table. As for Vish comment that only 8% of the EU,s exports are to the EU. I would make 2 points firstly 8% is a big number if your economy fell 8% overnight we would know about it in a big way. Second that 8% is overall country by country it changes Germany for example being effectively the financer of the EU being the only economy of substance is very reliant on UK markets.

If you are relying on opinion polls you might be very disappointed opinions change and change very rapidly in today's world. As for the other countries leaving the EU and wanting referendums that's still very much on the table. As for Vish comment that only 8% of the EU,s exports are to the EU. I would make 2 points firstly 8% is a big number if your economy fell 8% overnight we would know about it in a big way. Second that 8% is overall country by country it changes Germany for example being effectively the financer of the EU being the only economy of substance is very reliant on UK markets.

Well the debate has started which is positive news. Despite what the nationalists would have you think Britain and Ireland culturally have a very close relationship thousands of British people live in Ireland and quite possibly more Irish people or immediate descendants live in Britain than Ireland itself. You don't need a passport to travel between the countries (although some airlines demand identification for security reasons) trade between the countries is inextricably linked. Once Britain leaves the EU it makes a lot of economic and cultural sense for Ireland to loosen its ties with the EU and strengthen them with its very close friend and neighbour. As for the polls, polls change (a few years ago there was a minority in Britain to leave the EU things change very fast) and if you recall a few years ago the Irish voted against the Lisbon treaty in national referendum and were then bullied by the EU into voting again until they got the right result. This won't be forgotten. It's early days but this is clearly something that's not going away. In addition there are other EU countries wanting exit referenda again this is not going away. But for Ireland it's a no brainer because of the close ties as above and I think it will happen for sure

I happen to think its a card we have to keep up our sleeve, gonna be some tough deals done and we are a small country , if the EU is tempted to sacrifice our needs then we have to keep all options open. Not happy about it tho, and not going to thank the UK for putting us in this situation. I sincerely doubt we will play that card( we are EU's biggest supporters) but its not a bad hand to let the EU know we have.