Back Door Euro €

Peter Hain the Northern Ireland Secretary, told the New York-based Irish Echo it would become "increasingly difficult to look at the economy of north and south except as a sort of island of Ireland economy".

Hain said: "We are deepening north-south co-operation in a number of areas. The Northern Ireland economy, though it is doing better than ever in its history, is not sustainable in the long-term.

So, is this the Euro through the back door, or are the Republic of Ireland going to ditch the Euro in favour of the Pound.

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