Originally Posted by
MechEngr
Isn't Ireland still a part of the EU? Why yes, yes it is.
Great job UK, the populist win of the century right there. It's so wonderful not to think through the results of an impulsive act.
The UK probably enjoys the knowledge that whatever lingering feelings about some past events, the Irish don't have supersonic interceptors that can get to London in just a few minutes. Perhaps the UK could acknowledge that selling potatoes at a profit off the island wasn't the smartest move during a famine and that restitution may take a while. In contrast, the American Choctaw tribe sent money to help Ireland in 1847, which the Irish still recall favorably.
I've tried, I really have, to find a single crumb of relevance in this post to the subject under discussion but without success.
As for the actual subject, an agreement such as this one between two sovereign nations to the benefit of both seems entirely sensible.