Titian confused in Ireland with new member (8)
I believe the answer is:
initiate
'new member' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'titian confused in ireland' is the wordplay.
'confused' is an anagram indicator.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ireland' becomes 'ie' (two letter country code).
'titian' anagrammed gives 'nitiat'.
'nitiat' placed inside 'ie' is 'INITIATE'.
'with' is the link.
(Other definitions for initiate that I've seen before include "Start - trigger" , "found" , "Bring up a topic or prepare the way for" , "Start, launch" , "Cause (process) to begin" .)