Author: Frank Schnittger

Discussion of Brexit has been almost exclusively based on the proposition that the UK will exit en bloc, and that the only possible exceptions to this are if Scotland were to vote for Independence, or N. Ireland were to vote to...

Alan Dukes, former Leader of Fine Gael, Leader of the opposition and Minister for Agriculture, Finance and Justice has responded to my letter to the editor criticising his original Irish Times article purporting to advise...

Alan Dukes is a former chief of staff to Ireland’s EU commissioner who subsequently held the three key cabinet ministries of Agriculture, Finance, and Justice, and then became leader of Fine Gael (the current Irish...

Theresa May made great play at the Conservative Party conference this week-end of the UK leaving the EU as one unit.  Well she would say that, wouldn’t she? But I suspect that many Scots will have a different take on...

The European Commission has made a ruling charging Ireland with giving illegal state aid to Apple and ordering Ireland to collect €13 Billion in back taxes due – a figure that represents c. 6% of Ireland’s...