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Legal challenges on no deal -The Irish Times

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SistemaAddict · 22/08/2019 19:33

I discovered The Irish Times thanks to a mumsnet poster and am grateful to them whoever they were. It gives a different viewpoint so I was having a look just now and found this article:

www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/three-legal-challenges-lodged-in-belfast-over-no-deal-brexit-1.3994050

I'm on the train with a banging headache so haven't done more than skim read but it looks interesting and I'll look properly and read around later on.

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beanaseireann · 22/08/2019 19:39

As a long time reader of The Irish Times ( aka the paper of note), glad to see another reader in here. Are you living in the UK ?
On what thread had it been mentioned before?

justrestinginmybankaccount · 22/08/2019 19:41

I subscribe to the Irish Times online, and the Brexit dialogue is so different... it amazes me what is NOT being said in the UK papers.

Fintan O’Toole nails it over and over.

ConorMcGregorsChin · 22/08/2019 19:52

This needs to be shared more.

bellinisurge · 22/08/2019 20:07

In my little bunch of newspaper apps, the Irish Times is the one I turn to for a sensible perspective. Which sounds like an advert Grin

SistemaAddict · 22/08/2019 20:11

It might have been bellinisurge but I'm not convinced it was. I'm trying to think why I was directed there and on what thread. Definitely a brexit thread though.

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SistemaAddict · 22/08/2019 20:17

Maybe @Peregrina? Or @usuallydormant?

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Focalpoint · 22/08/2019 20:23

Try listening to Pat Kenny on RTÉ radio 1. You can probably podcast him and he covers Brexit most mornings.

Focalpoint · 22/08/2019 20:24

Apologies Pat is on Newstalk not RTÉ - I'm living in the past

bellinisurge · 22/08/2019 20:33

I don't think it was me Smile

RuggerHug · 22/08/2019 20:35

Fintan is brilliant. David McWilliams podcasts about it are great too. Especially 'take it from us, the first 70 years of independence are the hardest, after that it gets easier'.

SistemaAddict · 22/08/2019 20:51

It's really bugging me now! It was a really long article and I read it before I fell asleep one night. Took me over half an hour to read. The history of Ireland in some way. Something about the DUP persuading people to vote leave.

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ny20005 · 22/08/2019 20:52

To be honest, any broadsheet outside of UK has a sensible perspective on brexit

Peregrina · 22/08/2019 21:12

I don't think it was me either.

SistemaAddict · 22/08/2019 21:12

It was indeed @usuallydormant so thank you. On @bellinisurge's thread about the Irish Sea border.

"Bercows, I suggest you look at a few articles from the excellent Tony Connolly, who is a really well informed Irish journalist (RTÉ). It is commonly accepted in the EU that the NI backstop is the preferred option and in fact the UK wide backstop was a huge concession given to May by the EU to help her get over her self inflicted DUP issue.

https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2018/1019/1005373-backstop-tony-connelly<a class="break-all" href="http://go.mumsnet.com/?xs=1&id=470X1554755&url=www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2018/1019/1005373-backstop-tony-connelly/" target="_blank">/

I'd also really recommend looking at the Irish Times if you want a non UK perspective, especially Fintan o'Toole."

Grin

That would have bugged me all night!

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SistemaAddict · 22/08/2019 21:15

It was an RTE article I was thinking of though but it was from there I discovered the Irish times too.

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