‘Insular shell of Brexit gloom’

A chara, – Further to Denis Staunton's London Letter ("Britain retreats into insular shell of Brexit gloom", August 31st), if the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, believes that it is "ironic" that Britain is negotiating to leave the EU while Albania is negotiating to join, either he doesn't understand irony or he doesn't know Albania. – Is mise,

BLAIR NOONAN,

Dublin 6.