Colm McCarthy has consulted with the European Commission and the World Bank. He has worked with the ESRI, the Central Bank and UCD, sat on a string of state boards and advised a number of governments about public sector cost savings. But in a previous life in the 1990s, he also tried to get a Dublin soccer team playing in the Scottish league. The plan failed for a variety of reasons, but a key issue was national structures and the fact that teams do not have freedom of establishment – McCarthy was effectively trying to relocate a Scottish team to…

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