The Irish are a dopey, gullible lot.
The Republic of Ireland - the EU's little lapdog - has offered to pay for Northern Irish students to take part still in the EU's Erasmus Scheme. This allows 10,000 EU students a year to attend any EU university they want to. Many British students were scared that Brexit would mean they'd not be able to take part in Erasmus.
Yet the newly-independent UK has replaced the Erasmus Scheme with its own Turing Scheme - which is vastly superior. It allows 35,000 British students each year to study anywhere in the WORLD, such as at a US Ivy League university.
So the mugs in the Irish Republic are offering to pay for Northern Irish students to attend Erasmus even though the UK has set up a far superior scheme.
You have to laugh