Episode 2: UK Election Special - What Is The DUP

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The dramatic UK election result has suddenly made Northern Irish politics more pressing than ever. Are you trying to figure out what the DUP is anyway and what all this means for Brexit? We answer all these questions and more in this special UK election edition of The Irish Passport. It includes a report from a loyalist pipe band event where we asked marchers what they thought of Brexit, and got some surprising answers....

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.2	Let's do it.
0:03.0	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.7	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:05.9	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:06.9	We're friends.
0:07.6	Can you hear about to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat Tim.
0:09.8	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.1	Uh-huh.
0:13.3	I'm recording.
0:14.1	One, two, two, three.
0:16.5	Okay. Hi, everybody. Hello, and welcome to a special edition of the Irish Passport podcast. We had to
0:40.0	rush to our microphones and record this special episode because of the really exciting events
0:45.5	in the UK, the election which has resulted in a hung parliament and has raised speculation that
0:51.1	the DUP, the Northern Irish Party, may be called in to shore up a
0:54.8	conservative government. So we've been flooded with questions because of the shock result about,
0:59.8	you know, who are the DUP? So we decided to make this special episode, which is about unionism.
1:04.5	And we're not the only ones asking questions. Here's David McCann of the Northern Ireland
1:08.3	blog, political blog, Slugger O'Toole, with some of the questions
1:12.3	that he was asked this morning. I am David McCann. I am the deputy editor of the Northern Ireland
1:17.9	current affairs website Slugger O'T. The DUP has traditionally been seen as one of Northern Ireland's
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