Opportunities and risks abound as UK heads for the EU door

So, what a momentous week this was. Ireland qualified for the second round of the European Championships revisiting, in doing so, the heady days of the 1988 competition which heralded a new era of self-belief and may even have helped set the national psyche for the real tiger times. Oh, and Brexit. 

To be followed by the certainty of a second Scottish referendum. This is now a reality.

Ireland needs to accept that this is the case and face up to several realities.