David McWilliams: Ireland needs Britain
If an angry post-Brexit EU attacks our nearest neighbours, we will be the ones to suffer - so we should start preparing now
As a 21-year-old student, I stood in the Great Hall, Bruges, in September of 1988. Little did I know that the speech I was about to hear would constitute the opening salvos of a battle that would culminate with Brexit.
In the now-famous Bruges speech, Mrs Thatcher picked her audience, her moment and her message.
Along with ten other Irish students, I was a postgraduate at the College of Europe. The College of ...