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Hello. Welcome to Irish Passport. Let's do it. Welcome to the Irish Passport. I'm Tim McInerney.

I'm Naomi O'Leary O'Leary. We're friends. Can you

both to Naomi? Anwarfath, Tim. This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.

I'm recording. One of the questions Hello and welcome to the Irish Passport mini-series half-pints.

One of the questions we've received most frequently from listeners is about Scotland and Ireland.

How do we relate to each other? What are the political, historical and cultural links?

I was recently in Belfast and I had the opportunity to ask just the man for the

question, Professor Graham Walker, an academic originally from Scotland who works at Queen's University

Belfast. His specialty is Scotland and Northern Ireland, the political and cultural links between

them and the impact of devolution, religion, sectarianism and identity.

He wrote a book about it called Intimate Strangers.

I asked him about Brexit, Scottish independence and the rise of the Scottish National Party

and what effect, if any, this had back on Northern Ireland.

But first, I asked about the important stuff.

Football.

What's the story with Rangers and Celtic?

Right.

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