PAT + JUDE TALK ABOUT FROST’S ARTICLE 16 THREAT, SIMON C HURRYING TO ARMAGH, AND 15% CORPORATION TAX

1. Why don’t the EU tell the UK to go ahead and unilaterally trigger Article 16? They keep threatening, suggesting they are in the dominant position when it’s clear they are in deep doodoo. Or do you think they’ve been hoodwinked into this ghastly protocol trap?

  Michael D Higgins isn’t going but Simon Coveney – and some SDLP people – are going. To this service in Armagh, that is, to ‘mark’ the partition of Ireland and the establishment of Northern Ireland. Given that 81% of people in the south thought Michael D was dead right not to accept the invitation, are Simon Coveney and the SDLP cutting a rod for their own back?

The South’s corporation tax will move shortly to 15% from its present 12.5 %.  Will this mean no more tech giants settlng up in the south of Ireland?

Oh, and check who Pat names as his ‘Gobachán of the Week’. Pat takes no prisoners on this one…