There will be plenty of passionate believers in Brexit who will tell you that, no matter what the economic consequences, it was the right thing for the UK to do.  There may have been an economic impact but it wasn’t about that, it was about something more important, something intangible. In the case of Brexit, they will say, it was about sovereignty. The GAA sees itself as special and different. There are many good reasons for this view of itself. The GAA is different. The role it has in communities across Ireland is a special one. It sustained people during…

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