Alternative to a federal Europe

MY sense of rising bewilderment is tempered only by anger as I listened to Enda Kenny pontificate, while out beleaguered politicians are led a merry dance by our EU masters.

Has the Government worked out a strategy that enables an orderly withdrawal from the EU? Sarkozy and Merkel, relentless in their pursuit of a federal Europe, continue to hoist their own agendas on member states. It grieves my heart to listen to Michael Noonan confirm that France and Germany would ultimately have a right to dictate how Ireland manages its budgetary and fiscal policy, should this Franco-Germanic pact become a reality.

The question that this government has to answer is, why are we continuing to be a part of a failed paradigm?