Back home in Ireland much of the political talk surrounding the UK referendum result centres on how we can get the best deal to enable us to maintain the over-reliant trading relation the country has had with the UK for centuries. This is a lazy approach, easily sold to the public; human nature resists change, however change is a constant in our lives. The wheel was once revolutionary, the combustion engine, the microchip, fast food.
It is a source of much frustration to look at a man who's been a politician for 41 years and achieved so little, look into an empty box in the hope that Santa Claus is going to put a few goodies in it so that we can continue our cosy, lazy trading status quo.
The box is empty Enda; however if you would dare to have a bit of vision, come out of the fog; there is a market of 400 million people with no trade barriers, who won't have trade barriers any time soon, and more further afield who are struggling to manage demand for nutrition among their exploding populations.
The economic constructs of the 1970s are no longer valid - the world is now the marketplace; and as well as that meaning we can sell to anywhere; it means buyers can go anywhere too. With Brother Trump in the White House changing his tune like a candle flickering in the wind, we can offer stability of supply to trading partners, wherever they may be.
Competition is fierce; ask any business where complaining about the competition while going backwards got them; they're more than likely not a business any more - it's compete or give up - and giving up is not an option.
In the modern world, we must strive to survive, we must adapt to grow and we must forget what we knew to be true in the past.
