Impartial analysis predicts farm incomes won’t be harmed – and maybe it’s time the Irish agri sector looked beyond our traditional markets, like we had to do post-Brexit
‘Reports suggest that the share of the UK’s beef market supplied by Ireland has fallen from 70pc to 68pc in the10 years since the Brexit vote, which shows remarkable resilience for an industry that was supposed to be so vulnerable’ Photo: Damien Eagers
It’s hard to believe that Brexit will be 10 years old this June. At the time I couldn’t believe my ears. Not only was the US in the process of electing Donald Trump, but the Brits had somehow convinced themselves that they’d be better off outside the EU.
There were acres of newsprint expended on the devastating consequences this would have on the Irish agri sector, given how utterly dependent we were on the British market for beef and cheese exports.