Gloves off, Washington to the rescue! Brexit update

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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It’s return of the clowns as Naomi and Tim dissect the latest Brexit drama and speak to Congressman Brendan Boyle, whose cutting criticism of the British government went viral after the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared it would break international law. Where are we, how did we get here, and what lies ahead? We sum it up ahead of a crunch week in the talks between the European Union and Britain that have extremely high stakes for Ireland. Featuring original music by Michael Fry, who is @BigDirtyFry on Twitter. Support us on Patreon to gain access to our full library of bonus episodes and othe rextra content overat www.Patreon.com/theirishpassport Follow us on Facebook and Twitter at @PassportIrish. If you enjoyed this episode, do give us a good review in your podcast app and share it with your friends.

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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 both, Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.8	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.1	I'm recording.
0:14.1	One, two, two, three.
0:16.5	Okay. Hello, everyone.
0:55.7	Hi, and welcome back to the Irish Passport podcast. Now guys earlier on this week we were already waist deep in the production of another episode which will be coming your way very soon by the way but events in international politics right now are so potentially explosive that we just had to record this episode first. Exactly. So you guessed it. It's a time for the return of the chaos and more borders than ever before. It's Brexit. If you've been tuning in for a while, you'll already be familiar with our occasional Brexit updates,
1:28.5	where we break down exactly what's going on and what the potential consequences especially might be for Ireland.
1:34.7	Because even at the best of times, you know, these interminable, like, U-turns and twists in these negotiations,
1:40.6	have been really hard to keep track of.
1:42.5	And especially right now, as 2020 is throwing
1:45.7	everything she has at us, it's been more difficult than ever to stay up to date with what the
1:51.1	hell is going on in the UK. So, you know, Naomi, like, I do get this general sense of people
1:57.5	that they've just lost patience with all this and they just don't really care anymore.
2:01.6	Yeah.
2:02.1	Like here, you know, here we are. Like, it's four years after the referendum. Like, and it feels like
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