{"id":677243,"date":"2026-01-06T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677243\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:03:17","slug":"darragh-mccullough-mercosur-could-well-be-the-next-brexit-and-cause-minimal-bother-to-irish-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677243\/","title":{"rendered":"Darragh McCullough: Mercosur could well be the next Brexit \u2013 and cause minimal bother to Irish beef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Impartial analysis predicts farm incomes won\u2019t be harmed \u2013 and maybe it\u2019s time the Irish agri sector looked beyond our traditional markets, like we had to do post-Brexit\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Reports suggest that the share of the UK\u2019s 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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4ad094dc-e2db-49e9-bf46-6d820ca7bb85.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;Reports suggest that the share of the UK\u2019s 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&#8217; Photo: Damien Eagers<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s hard to believe that Brexit will be 10 years old this June. At the time I couldn\u2019t believe my ears. Not only was the US in the process of electing Donald Trump, but the Brits had somehow convinced themselves that they\u2019d be better off outside the EU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Impartial analysis predicts farm incomes won\u2019t be harmed \u2013 and maybe it\u2019s time the Irish agri sector looked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[95791,802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-677243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-beef-prices","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115847116036645919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}