While we progressed and developed, our brothers in Eastern Europe remained trapped behind a curtain of iron, held in bondage by repressive Stalinist regimes, impoverished by a slavish devotion to a failed economic philosophy. These countries now look to us to turn the key and open the gate to admit them to our co-operative society. Let them emulate the Irish, give them the advantages that were granted to us in 1973 so that they too can, by their own endeavours, generate prosperity for their people so that they too can have stability and peace.