Brexit and you: what impact will it really have?

Irish people are failing to make a personal link with the effects of Britain leaving the EU

Keen readers of this column may recall that, last October, we measured public opinion on economic and political events in terms of their likelihood of happening and their potential to impact on “me”.

One of those scenarios we measured was that of Britain leaving the EU (before it became universally known as Brexit). I fear that, like many others, Irish people were complacent on this issue, with only a lowly three in ten ...