We have benefitted enormously from the EU

In his letter of January 4, Joe Brennan complained about the ECB being ‘most shameful’ in its treatment of Ireland.

In his letter of January 9 he advocates an alliance with the UK instead of the EU. He, therefore, seems to be advocating going back to past situations when we were much more dependent on Britain.

Our membership of the EU not alone gives us access to a 500 million home market, it also gave us a net €43 billion gain from common policies since entry.