Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----regarding the level of trade. Interestingly, when I tweeted about this, someone replied that Ireland was the UK's fifth largest export customer and that there were more exports from Britain to Ireland than there were from Britain to Spain or Italy. We must provide some education on this matter, as there is a great deal of misinformation that needs to be corrected. It is appalling that a journalist could write an article like this and believe she could get away with it.