Ireland joining the EU: ‘What was the alternative?’
John Bruton recalls a time before membership of the European Economic Community (EEC) when Ireland was a ‘much poorer country’. The former Fine Gael leader, Taoiseach, opposition spokesperson for agriculture, and ambassador of the European Union (EU) to the United States, tells Bernie Commins why there was no alternative to joining the EEC at that time
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