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Halfpints: How did we get here? Four steps that led to the Brexit border crisis
An error-ridden Remain campaign, a centralised news industry, a political system where no one cares about policy, and the longtime invisibility and indifference that surrounds Northern Ireland, are all part of the reason why the border hardly came up in the Brexit campaign, and why we find ourselves on the brink of catastrophe now. Naomi sums it up from her perspective of working as a journalist in London during the campaign, and speaks to Matthew O’Toole, the Brexit spokesman from Northern Ireland who experienced the campaign from the other side: from inside 10 Downing Street.
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Halfpints: How will Brexit affect rights in Northern Ireland?
Halfpints: Brexit, the border, and Irish unity
Halfpints: Mary Lou McDonald
Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald sat down with us in her constituency office in north Dublin to talk Brexit, the EU and Irish unity. She explained her criticisms of the European project as a self-described “good European”, her ambitions to lead a government in Dublin, and what she thinks needs to happen ahead of a referendum on a united Ireland. Naomi discovers. This is the full cut of the interview partially featured in our finale of Season 2, ‘Nationalism’. Thank you so much for your support.
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