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Colm McCarthy is a contributor to the Irish Farmers Journal.
Colm McCarthy on 17 Apr 2019
All aboard the slow train to bankruptcy
Why would the State spend another €100m on a train line in the west that is not fit for purpose?
Colm McCarthy on 10 Apr 2019
Colm McCarthy: Brexit's three ultimate outcomes
There has been inexplicable confusion in the UK political debate about the customs union.
Colm McCarthy on 03 Apr 2019
Colm McCarthy: no-deal leads back to a deal
The EU-27 will bring the same set of preoccupations back to the table whenever Britannia Unbound comes back, as it would inevitably do, seeking some form of free trade agreement.
Colm McCarthy on 27 Mar 2019
Solid reasons for solidarity of the EU-27
The Good Friday Agreement was a very European peace deal. The two states concerned agreed that the frontier could stay where it was but that it would become invisible for all practical purposes.
Colm McCarthy on 20 Mar 2019
UK's political torment continues
The most damaging element in the descent into crisis has been the insistence, contrary to all expert advice, that Brexit was going to be simple.
Colm McCarthy on 13 Mar 2019
Brexit prediction is a dangerous occupation
Prediction is a dangerous occupation in this shambolic environment, but it looks, on Wednesday afternoon, as if extension is the most likely outcome.
Colm McCarthy on 07 Mar 2019
Brexit – why bother?
What is the point in leaving the EU at all if the constraints of both customs union and single market must indefinitely be endured?
Colm McCarthy on 27 Feb 2019
Growing Tory rebellion yet to play out
The UK’s environment minister Michael Gove, raised the issue of tariffs on imports from EU countries at the annual conference of the National Farmers’ Union in Birmingham last week.
Colm McCarthy on 20 Feb 2019
Colm McCarthy: controlling our carbon footprints
The climate challenge is real and the delay in facing the music means that policy changes could be abrupt whenever they eventually arrive.
Colm McCarthy on 13 Feb 2019
Colm McCarthy: balance on the BBC?
When the dust settles, the abject performance of the BBC will come under scrutiny.
Colm McCarthy on 06 Feb 2019
Is a citizens' assembly a way forward for the UK?
Referendums in Ireland avoid political and constitutional crises for a different reason.
Colm McCarthy on 30 Jan 2019
Spinning the Brexit bottle
Don’t hold consultative referendums with a 50-50 prospect of winning would be one obvious lesson, especially for a party calling itself conservative.