Author: Frank Schnittger

Ireland’s Post Brexit strategy

The Brexit vote has already had an effect on consumer confidence and investor sentiment in the UK with the Governor of the Bank of England warning of the likelihood of at least a technical recession in the near term. A prolonged...

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The Brexit Negotiation process

A reader who wishes to remain anonymous writes (By email): Is it yet clear what the process for British Exit is and what is to be negotiated?” UK politicians seem to depict a different view of what is involved than the EU...

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RIP: Finbarr Flood 1938-2016

Finbarr Flood was one of my first bosses in Guinness and taught me much of what I have learned about surviving in big business. He had joined the company as a messenger boy aged 14 and also played semi-professional soccer as a...

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Brexit and a United Ireland

The 1998 Good Friday Agreement is an international Treaty between the UK and the Republic of Ireland lodged with the United Nations.  It was incorporated into the Irish Constitution by a referendum which was carried by a...

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Tories do ruthless so well…but Boris?

With Labour stuck in what seems like an interminable leadership struggle, the Tories are wasting no time putting together a new order post Brexit.  Within days of losing the Brexit referendum, Prime Minister David Cameron...

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