Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Implications of Brexit for Foreign Policy: Dr. Karen Devine, DCU
9:00 am
Dr. Karen Devine:
I will be brief. I want to pick up on Senator Daly's point about the use of the word "pig". Where it came in was that Ireland was in with the PIIGS, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, countries. We were labelled the PIIGS, which I found difficult to take, and I go into the forensic analysis of that in the paper in terms of how Irish leaders responded-----
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