The Irish Border: A Reply to O’Brennan
Our proposal to drop the backstop in the Brexit negotiations over Ireland (see Proposal #6 Irish Border) has elicited some predictably intemperate and inaccurate responses. Leading the charge, John O’Brennan, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Maynooth University, took to Twitter to complain that our argument was ”bizarrely ill-informed” and demonstrated ”how British elites understand little or nothing about Ireland (and don't want to waste time trying to gain u