Irish interfering with Brexit - Let British decide for themselves

THERE is something deeply unsettling at the sight of senior Irish politicians travelling to the UK to tell people there how they should vote in the in-out EU referendum later this month.

It is true that the visit, last week, by Taoiseach Enda Kenny, and this week, by Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charlie Flanagan, have been by way of pleading to the Irish community in Britain rather than instruction.

In the respect, they bring to mind the remarks made when Ireland decided to exit the British Empire, once and for all.