Cavan man writing Tusk’s speeches
AN Irish proverb found its way into the latest Brexit squabbles as EU President Donald Tusk uttered the words, ‘Ní neart go cur le chéile’ – there is no strength without unity.
Now it has emerged that the man most likely to have put those words into Mr Tusk’s mouth is his speechwriter, Irishman Hugo Brady. As an adviser to Europe’s most senior politicians and diplomats, the legal expert from Cavan has a ringside seat to the negotiations over Britain’s messy divorce with the EU. Mr Brady studied journalism at Dublin City University. He has a masters in economic science and a diploma in European law from the Law Society of Ireland. He has been a speechwriter for Mr Tusk for three years, having cut his teeth in the Centre for European Reform where he was a Senior Research Fellow.
He regularly writes about Europe’s strategies in dealing with organised crime and counter-terrorism and has published essays on Britain’s future in Europe and how to protect free travel within the EU.
Of late, he has spoken in glowing terms of Ireland’s diplomats, saying, ‘I can see probably what most can’t: Ireland is the best prepared of any country for the Brexit negotiations’