Irexit: is Nigel Farage encouraging Ireland to leave the EU?

Former UKIP leader’s Dublin visit fuels fears of “Irish Brexit” bid

Nigel Farage
Farage is a speaker at the Irexit: Freedom to Prosper conference in Dublin on Saturday
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Ireland has shown little indication that it regrets joining the EU in 1973, but Nigel Farage hopes to change that with a trip to Dublin this weekend.

The former UKIP leader will address Trinity College later today and is backing a so-called Irexit conference on Saturday. “Both events are stirring up controversy,” Bloomberg reports.

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