A looming crisis in Irish-British relations?

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Tensions threaten to flare again between Ireland, Britain, and the EU with a new UK prime minister who has promised to take a hard line on the Northern Ireland Protocol. The death of Queen Elizabeth however put a pause on developments for the period of mourning, and produced some fascinating moments too as her successor King Charles met with Sinn Féin and acknowledged them as the biggest party in Northern Ireland. Naomi and Tim catch up on current events, discuss the Dublin drama turning heads in Brussels, and why the Irish government resembles a rotisserie chicken... Patreon supporters can listen to a bonus debrief episode dissecting the complex Irish reaction to the death of Queen Elizabeth over on patreon.com/theirishpassport You can follow us on Twitter at @PassportIrish

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.4	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Hello, everyone, and welcome to an all new episode of The Irish Passport podcast,
0:44.0	and you might have been expecting our next installment on the War of Independence miniseries,
0:48.6	which is coming up, we promise you, but first we really have to get a grip on what's happening in current affairs,
0:58.1	because we've been leaving it a little bit thrown to the wayside for the last few months while we've been on the War of Independence.
1:00.1	So...
1:00.7	Today, we...
1:01.6	Yes, I have corralled Naomi, Naomi F. O'Leary, to tell us everything that's going on.
1:08.3	What are we going to be talking about, Naomi?
1:09.7	Right. So we have
1:11.2	a menu of current affairs to kind of provide the latest on, including what's the latest with
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