CLEAR WINNER - While Brexit is set to represent a negative shock to the Irish economy as a whole, the Dublin office market is one of the few areas that stands to benefit due to relocation activity from London. Transfers from London to Dublin have been modest with no signs of a "Brexodus" yet. But in a survey of company moves since the 2016 referendum, Dublin is the clear winner when it comes to snagging UK companies looking for an EU hub, accounting for a quarter of all Brexit related moves. Ireland is attracting 48 projects to Dublin and two to Cork, ahead of Luxembourg (39) and Paris (24). 

  NO DEAL DISASTER - Foreign Policy warns " A No-Deal Brexit Will Destroy the British Economy". For example, the Irish economy is closely linked with Britain's, and much of Ireland's trade with the EU passes through Britain. Moreover, no deal would lead to the imposition of a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, putting into doubt the survival of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which ended decades of violence between Irish nationalists and Unionists loyal to London. NO HYPE - The Guardian says, Don't buy the Brexit hype.   The EU knows it holds all the cards and recognises the danger of giving ground. Its priority is to accommodate Dublin, not London. The British government has never understood the Brexit process. It expects the EU to treat the UK both as an equally powerful third country, and as a member state still deserving the EU's protection. It is neither. And so in a battle of red lines, the UK will lose. SELF-INFLICTED WOUND - Brexit could end up going down as "one of the biggest and most needless self-inflicted wounds in history", Hillary Clinton told an audience at Queen's University in Belfast recently.  Clinton, who was at the university to receive an honorary degree, warned that "the uncertainty surrounding Brexit for everyone is substantial, but here in Northern Ireland is acute", saying the country was both "a contributor to the impasse and compelling reason to resolve it. ... Twenty quiet years can make it easy to take for granted that peace and prosperity will always continue. History teaches a different lesson."