One very tangible risk posed to the Irish economy is the potential disruption of the land-bridge to continental Europe that the UK physically provides to Irish trade with the rest of the EU. Currently, exports consigned in Ireland and bound for the continent can travel overland through the UK with minimal administrative burden.
Mr. Greenspan comments on the current direction of the US economy and the fiscal situation in the United States Testimony by the Chairman of the Board of the US Federal Reserve System, Mr. Alan Greenspan, before the Committee on the Budget of the US Senate on 29/1/98.