Economics
Ireland Hits Brexit Alarm in Biggest Foreign Crisis in 50 Years
- Weakening pound, border with U.K. are sources of concern
- Northern Irish nationalists demand vote on reunification
Dublin.
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The prime minister is under pressure, economists are slashing growth forecasts and companies are warning of Brexit’s dire consequences. London? No, Dublin.
The intertwining of trade and finance means no other country is feeling the fallout from the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union more than Ireland. In the year the Irish marked the centenary of their uprising against British rule, the country remains at the mercy of the unfolding drama in its closest neighbor.