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The Daily PollNEW FIGURES SHOW that it’s not just the border that is threatened by the impact of Brexit.
But with the negotiations ongoing between the UK and the EU, the idea of Brexit can feel very far away.
Do you ever think of the impact it will have on your life?
We’re asking: Do you worry about the impact of Brexit on your life?
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It’s time we moved away from being reliant on the Brits. We’ve been at the mercy at their whims too long. We should at Brexit as an opportunity to solidify our relationship with Europe.
@john Appleseed: Which ever way you look at it, England are our closest and strongest allie. We would be fools to push them away. The world or Europe atleast has seen calm waters since WW2. A storm can come out of no where…
@john Appleseed: i agree it is time to get the Brits off our back but we need the unification of our country or else life on this island will be seriously changed for a significant amount of people.
I live in Derry and travel to Donegal daily for work,this is my country,i should be free to live and work anywhere on this Ireland without being impeded by border controls.
British meddling in Ireland has cost us for far too long,let’s get shot of them once and for all.
@The Viking:
We’re not pushing them away, the British people voted to leave, it’s the Euro elite who want to punish the British and make it as hard as possible for them to have a soft Brexit. life will carry on either way.
@The Viking: yeah Britain is important to us whether we like it or not. Am I worried? Not as much as I am for the British people and more specifically my family and friends who live there. It’s going to be a disaster for the next generation of Brits not that any leavers are thinking about them.
@Martin Doherty: 100% agree Martin.
@Remy: Britain stood up to the powerhouse of Europe. They may struggle for a period but will bounce back. They always do. Tho we will still be suckling on Germany’s tits.
@The Viking: opposed to suckling at the tit of Britain. Where did that get us? Europe has done far more for us than Britain ever did.
@john Appleseed: Yes. Brain washing us. Taking away our culture. Making our laws for us. Putting us in financial crisis were our great grandchildren will be still paying of our debt. Wake up John.
@The Viking: what part of the crisis is due to europe? they gave us a large debt to fix our problems but we caused the problems. would it have been better to put this country through worse hell? what laws did they make for us? name one? stop reading the daily mail/express. if you hate europe, than go to the uk, thats if they don’t kick u out after brexit
@The Viking: so a step up from mass genocide
@john Appleseed: Yes cause Europe has been so nice to us with all of that bank debt we took on.
@Dec: most of it, they forced the government to bail a bank out, that should not have been been bailed out, a corporate bank who’s main bondholders were….. Ta da… German bank’s… They did the same with Greece..
So yes pretty much all of it is down to Europe…
Iceland burnt the bond holder’s 15years back with ALL there banks now have minimum debt, the sort which we won’t have for generations…
@Dec: Aren’t you an idiot, pro Europe is a bad thing unless you cannot were reading The Beano rather than The Daily Mail or Express (of which I am not guilty) Europe has skinned us alive financially to allow the gambling fat cats to get their money back at our cost. There are aplenty of new laws imposed on us but you won’t read that in The Beano other.
@Barry morcom: so we can stop blaming fine fail? ok!
@Jho Harris: wow what a dumb way to not answer a question!! so can you name a law that europe had imposed on us that we wouldn’t have anyway? by the way, read back what you wrote before calling someone an idiot
@The Viking:
I agree
@Dec: nope blame them too..
Because they took the decision and didn’t stand up for the country they were elected to do….
The brits did the same with northern rock bank which owed more but, the main difference was majority investments were personal mortgages..
People mainly pay..
Here it was business loans!!!!
Never going to get money back..
@The Viking: what you have described is everything the British had already done. We use English Common law in our musical process, many of our laws are just extensions and amendments to old British laws, our old Irish culture was irrevocably changed during the Penal and famine years to make us more Anglified. So claiming Europe is taking away our culture is like complaining about milk spilt centuries ago.
@Dec: We did of course make our own problems. Tho we did not need to take on such a burden as the loan we did. It turned out that we never needed it, but were pressurized into taking it.
Couldn’t give a toss about Brexit to be honest. I usually skip the articles on it. A lot of it seems to be pure and utter hyperbole. If and when it happens then maybe I will take a little more notice. There’s no point in worrying about something that hasn’t even happened yet. Worrying causes stress,which leads to health problems.
@Dj: Couldn’t agree more Dj.I’d be more worried about the people in the poll that don’t know if they are worried or not…
@Dj: here here
@Horses for courses: haha very true
I think Ireland is beginning to realise for the first time what it means to be independent. We have always had the freedom to trade with our neighbour. The only thing that really change after independence was the flag over the GPO . We where still connected by economics, language and culture . Ireland is now dictated by the EU to how it can trade with its neighbour while the UK goes off into the big world . It’s like the UK is saying Ireland you are now the responsibility of Germany its goodbye from here .
@Tommy Whelan: Independant my ar $e … Then you actually back track and say we are in the hands of Germany now. ( which i agree on.) Make your mind up mate.
@The Viking: In the hands of Germany for all the wrong reasons by the way..
@Tommy Whelan: are you on drugs? They will be free??? Have you even paid attention? They haven’t a clue what they want or how they want it. The more they unravel the more I’m glad we’re not. This idea that we are ruled by Germany is old and tiresome. If you want to properly debate at least get educated.
@Tommy Whelan: yeah, remember the time germany and france told us to change our corporation tax a few years ago? Remember what we said to them? stop hyping the idea we are slaves to germany while pushing for us to be slaves to the uk
@Deborah Behan: we are ruled by Germany.
@Dec: And remember the time they told us we were owed over 13 billion in tax from apple but our leaders held strong and told them ‘No, apple should not pay more than 1% tax. We will contest that they should ever pay more!’
Oh, and remember when our banks collapsed because of our own developers, investors, politicians and bankers? And after Europe lent us the money so that our entire financial system wont collapse and everyone loses their savings and more, we give out to them for making us pay back the money we borrowed and blame they entire string of events on them! Serves them right!
Or remember when you could only buy 2 types of wine, had a choice of red or white cheddar for cheese, and had to drive around the country on what no other developed country would have called a ‘road’. Then the EU came and funded our roads, infastructure, and boosted trade into overdrive. What were they thinking? We never asked for that!
@Tommy Whelan: Under the Corn Laws which artificially inflated wheat prices in the UK, they encouraged Irish producers to export corn to England, as well as making it massively expensive to import corn to Ireland, leading us to become even more dependent on the potato, which led to the Famine. Dependence on the Brits has always been a disaster for us.
@Tommy Whelan: Hilarious. More news from Fantasy Island.
I’m from Enniskillen. Brexit is going to disproportionately impact Co. Fermanagh despite us overwhelmingly voting against it. It could potentially cut us off from our neighbours in Leitrim, Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan. The towns economy is highly reliant on cross border trade and any sort of change at the border will be disastrous.
Partition has been devastating for the North West of Ireland. Brexit has the potential to reignite some of the old problems that we thought we had left behind.
@Conor Conneally: The retail side in Enniskillen will be fine i reckon. Back when the border was manned by the British army and the customs were in Swanlinbar there was a good flow of traffic from the south into get the shopping. The day Erneside opened you couldnt get parked with all the southern cars in the carpark. If there is a so called hard brexit then people will adapt and deal with it. I personally think that the current UK government will collapse, a new one will get elected and the uk will vote again on leaving the EU.
@Derek Lyster: what about customs declared returning to the EU? It wouldn’t be worth your while purchasing goods from there
The UK is one of or biggest trading partner (the biggest, depending how you view it), and we must retain their business. About 4 million tourists come from there every year – and it’s our main destination for holidays, sport, work etc.
@Fank Pulman: The 4m is, by far, the largest number – by country.
@Fank Pulman: I work in the eu, my friends are in the eu, I holiday in the eu, I got my education in the eu. I never really had to deal with the uk. I dont have much dealings with the UK and also my friends
Some nights I just can’t sleep with the worry. I was so happy before Brexit, if only I could wake up from this horrible nightmare
Very much so – it’ll have a major affect on us!
Ffs….
@Dec: exactly, I worry about another 600 fake news stories about it!
@Alan Moore: to be fair if you look at twitter or some articles that are been written about the brexit affect on ireland, some brits think ireland will become a 3rd world country because of it. Read a funny (it wasn’t meant to be!) article where they slam ireland and its history before concluding “maybe eire can rejoin the uk at the sand of all this”. seriously! thats how dumb this is getting
@Alan Moore: there’s a difference between speculative news and fake news. Fake news is the latest siren song for the Trump administration to distract from what’s really going on. It’s a term we should shun.
@Dec: I know there are some Muppets out there.
Listened to George Galloway on news talk yesterday banging on about the north should have a referendum about a united Ireland…
Oblivious that the republic should have one to see if they want them and there huge debt…
It’s a bigger picture than people realise I think..
Absolutely not….you can’t do anything about it so why worry?
Not really, seems little point in worrying when no one really knows what is going to happen. Soft hard exit, reintroduced border controls or trade alliance.
No, there are far more important things in life to worry about.
This is not a very useful question for an all-Ireland poll. If you live on the south coast and aren’t involved in international trade, the impact of even the hardest form of Brexit may be largely unnoticed on a daily basis. If you live near what might be re-designated an “unapproved road” across the border, have property that spans it, do cross-border business or have family on either side, the impacts of a hard border could be dramatically negative. For those who see the prospect of profits from smuggling, the opportunities of tariff differentials would of course be wonderful.
My biggest worry is that our government seem incapable of grasping the potential gains from it, and even Luxembourg are beating us to some opportunities already.
I have no worries, planning on sending my daughter to Edinburgh for college next year. Cheaper than sending her here!!
My family live the uk, I could always get a uk passport.
So I have no issues with Brexit. I’m in favour of it.
I think the doomsday scenario for Ireland is if we leave the EU because our incompetent gov effed up our own country a decade ago, the EU saved us and Greece from going bust because it was in their best interests not to have any countries in the EU block go bust. The EU is saving us right now because our utterly useless current bunch of politicians are proving they couldn’t and still can’t run the country properly. We badly need better quality politicians in this country.
I would just love to see England completely break away from Ire their hanging on like a bad smell every place they go they are bad news . It is time to vote on a United Ireland .
Our history with the British is a very complex and thinking / discussing about our history with today’s mind set just makes it worst. Go way way back in history and our links were always there. Like the EU the UK wanted to to make our countries one which did work with Wales and Soctland for most part were at peace. Again it was done a old fashioned way if it were done differently our countries be much better off, cause like it not we share a lot more than what we see / think. Even today the UK flag still as representation for Ireland and this was not for control it like the EU flag we didn’t choose it but there s star there for us.
Our own idiot politicians actions can do far greater damage to our country than any brexit. Just look at the damage they’ve caused in the last decade or so, and there was no brexit! We’d be as bad as Venezuela now only for the fact that the EU didn’t want us to fail.
I tend not to worry about things that I have no control over. It’s pretty pointless
Look up Country Squire Magazine Brexit. Get stuffed , Eire. By Jim Browne. Shocking read in my opinion.
I’m a glass half full person. It will lead to more jobs hear, in banking and some manufacturing. The farmers may lose out.
@prop joe: agreed, the only thing is the EU farmers have CAP and access to the common market
@prop joe: The UK is Ireland’s largest market for Agri. This is very serious. Irish and UK Universities are very inter-twined. Our medical consultants do their courses in the UK. Professors from UK Iniversities audit Irish ones and vice versa to ensure adequate standards. All NDE Personnel working in industey in Ireland are trained in the UK as Ireland has no NDE Institutes or accredied training programs. No NDE means no Pharma companies or any other Process Installation. Uk is the only option since English language. Most of Ireland’s imports for day to day goods come through the UK.
All of the British shops are RIPPING us off oi
I couldn’t give a fiddlers curse about Brexit
This article is a bit of a joke, half of the jokers on here don’t know whats going on in the own community, if the do they don’t give a fook……
Got enough to worry about with the government, the Donald, and pugsy kim.
It doesn’t bother me in the slightest England is fudged. Has anyone being there resently they are alive with hate for everyone and everything. They
If you do you are not informed
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