Despite the ( current)Teashops fervent wish for us to forget their behaviour in the period since our referendum, I’m by no means sure he will get his wish.
The big boys money talked in December when Brussels blinked,And the apparatchiks in the comission are no doubt still seething and plotting revenge in small petty inconveniences and no doubt bigger ones if the opportunity arises.
Eires govts problem is still one of geography ( the wrong side of the U.K.) and the squandering of good will over here.
Every inconvenience the EU puts in Britain’s path inconveniences Eire as well, The more awkward the Eu becomes , the more incentive there is for the U.K. to trade outside their market.which includes the bogtrotters!.
I have said this before but Eires large market in dairy and beef here was gifted to them by tariff walls going up when we joined the EEC.It was not a god given right to market share and other countrys will want a bite of that trade back ( not least Australia in the midst of its trade war with China).
We should pointedly favour trading relationships with commonwealth countrys first. ( Eire pointedly refused to join the commonwealth)
so in conclusion , on trade , we should trade with them if they can compete on price, but no favours , and if the EU plays silly buggers with us again , no effort to shield Eire from the collateral damage. They are not friends , they are users, and whilst we can hold our nose and do Buisness I hope our politicians take heed how (yet again ) Eire behaved when it thought it could get away with it.
imho of course.