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The video is part of TheJournal.ie’s Brexit Road Trip – watch it in full here.
ALL SIDES IN the Brexit negotiations have repeatedly committed to avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland.
But this week will prove crucial in deciding if all sides meant it when they made that commitment: EU leaders are due to discuss the Irish border issue tomorrow and on Thursday, and after years of talks they still seem no closer to reaching a deal that will please all sides.
During our recent Brexit Road Trip, we spoke to historian Father Joe McVeigh at St Michael’s Parish Church in Enniskillen about what danger the reemergence of a hard border would pose.
“The fear is now, that if there’s a hard Brexit and a hard border, and customs and excise posts are put up again, that will provoke some reaction from a group like the IRA, and that there will be attacks on these border posts as symbols of a division in Ireland.”
“I’ve seen it happen in the past, and I fear it will happen again,” he said, adding that he is still hopeful there will be a last-minute resolution. Which is also Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s prediction.
Video and additional reporting by Nicky Ryan
Watch our view above for the full report, or click here to watch our full short documentary on Northern Ireland’s border.
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So Dublin city which has at least twice the population of Cork has more births . Jesbus what a scoop !!!!!!!!!!!
Only just, by about 20%. Probably due to CUMH serving a much bigger area than Cork alone
I am sure the CSO use the parents address rather than the hospital address when counting births by county.
They’re using the individual county/city council local authority areas, not regions.
Pops:
Dublin City : 527,612
(Dublin all local authorities: 1,273,069)
Cork County: 399,802
(Cork City and County : 519,032)
this rubbish is not news
All we want to know are the birth rates and are they rising and falling and the reasons why. The article was full of padding and doesn’t quite tell the reader what they want.
Also, Dublin city probably doesn’t include, Fingal and Dun Laoghaire and those other county areas, but who knows.
I take that back, there is a graph with the rates.
Most idiotic headline ever.
At least you can comment on it unlike the Hickey ones?
Must be really a quiet news day?
It’s not actually.
But as usual the Journal locks down comments on the important stories.
Even when they’re happening outside this jurisdiction.
Pathetic editorial stance.
Realistic looking Irish family in the photo … Not
You man must be brushing his teeth with Weathershield to get them that white.
Tbf, have you seen the women in Cork?
I know it’s hard to get a girl into bed when she’s not strung out on heroin!
Sums fail Beachmaster.
If Dublin has more than double the population of Cork, and Cork is only 25% behind in births…. It seems the amount of procreation going on per head is a lot higher in Cork.
They are all stunners in Havanas at 3am after a few Captains and Coke and a Heino chaser
Old peoples homes are not brothels Beachmaster ;)
Battle of the babies. How do you chaps come up with this shit.
Just double the amount of skangers going around the place so!
HON DUBLIN BABIES
Can people stop saying hon?
Cork has a higher HIV problem than Dublin as well?
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