Letter to the Editor: Ireland puts unnecessary difficulties in the UK’s way

Your headline, ‘Brexit calling time on the rural Irish pub’ (Irish Examiner,November 25) gave me a wry smile, knowing that, within walking distance here in urban Maidenhead, The Crown has shut down, The Farmer’s Boy is being demolished, while the Craufurd Arms has survived by becoming a community-owned pub — and none of this has much to do with Brexit.

However, if there really has been any Brexit effect on pubs in rural Ireland, then the recollection of your notorious headline from November 15, 2018: