Fiasco was started in UK

Sir — Brendan O’Connor’s article (Sunday Independent, November 17) has scored a goal, or should I say, a try, in this post-soccer era, by reminding those of us who read the Sunday Independent, but not that ‘rag of rags’ the UK edition of The Sun, that it had the effrontery to call our Taoiseach, a ‘Brexit Buffoon’ who should ‘shut his gob on Brexit and grow up’.

Let me remind The Sun, that the only known buffoon is a dishevelled, tousled, blondhaired t*** of their own who has been given carte-blanche to roam around Europe creating mayhem wherever he goes.

After giving a two-fingered gesture to Angela Merkel, the Brits are busy paddling their leaky raft as far as possible from EU shores, only to have their passage blocked by the good ship ‘Kathleen Ni Houlihan’ captained by Leo who is securely anchored and not for moving.

Leo has been threatened by a shot across his bow which accused him of ‘rookie diplomacy, puerile insults and threats to veto trade negotiations’.

Has The Sun not realised that after 800 years we both called it quits and buried the hatchet but we, the Irish, still remember where it is buried? We are no longer the ‘capdoffing’ nation we used to be.

Theresa May wants her cake and to eat it as well. She wants a hard border between the North and the South rather than a border down the middle of the Irish Sea. Here in the Republic we have had our fill of 60 years of a visible border dividing our country and will not tolerate it again. Theresa May, or any of her Brexit buddies, haven’t a clue how to solve the problem and her raft is floundering in a morass of uncertainty and misgiving.

As Brendan O’Connor asked: ‘could it be that they have forgotten that the whole fiasco was their idea in the first place?’ It is now their nemesis, they invented it, they broke the Entente Cordiale, now let them fix it. Leo, stand by your guns. Micheal McKeown, Blackrock,

Co Louth