Halfpint: Drama in the DUP

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Chaos hits the Democratic Unionist Party, Northern Ireland’s largest pro-British bloc, as new leader Edwin Poots is deposed in a revolt just 20 days after taking up the position. Naomi and Tim hear why the woman he usurped Arlene Foster is laughing, the Irish language dispute at the centre of Poots’ downfall, and what it all tells us about dynamically changing politics in the North. This is a Halfpint bonus episode made specially to thank our Patreon supporters. To hear our full archive and support the podcast, head over to 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.
0:02.3	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	Ano Arfad, 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.
0:14.3	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Hi everybody.
0:39.7	Hello and welcome to Half Pints.
0:41.3	The bonus content of the Irish Passport podcast we make especially to thank our Patreon supporters.
0:46.9	And thanks to everyone who supports us on Patreon as ever.
0:50.5	We're checking in.
0:51.4	First of all, let's talk about what happened the drama overnight. The Democratic Unionist Party has lost its new leader after only 20 days. So Edwin Putes had kind of been behind this heave against Arlene Foster, who'd been the leader for a good while, and succeeded in that heave was made leader only to face a rebellion
1:12.5	himself from his own party. Okay, right. So let's break that down. So Eileen Foster was in place as
1:19.4	the DUP leader for ages. She was there for ages and she had, I mean, she like a lot of people
1:26.0	would see her as ultra-conservative, even reactionary, but
1:29.6	relatively to a lot of the kind of policies that you see in the DUP, she was also seen as kind
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