Paul Colgan: Ireland’s love affair with Europe faces a fresh test

You’d think that given the bruising troika years and the fact that we still toil in order to service the debt of private bankers that our attitudes towards the European project would have cooled considerably.

Yet, according to the Eurobarometer findings of just last summer, albeit findings which were made before the Brexit referendum, we are the most enthusiastic of all EU citizens.

Not only that, but next to Luxembourg, we are the keenest on the common currency.