Senator Mooney raised a question on which I touched in The Irish Times about where this fits. I will try to answer it. Let me make an Irish point. Over a long period, however we run the clock – and it is most popular to run our colonial clock for about 800 years – one thing is clear. There was never a time when the entire continent of Europe held its breath for an Irish choice. This too is a measure of the power of connected sovereignty and of its wider capacity to influence.