What does the “Troubles Legacy Bill” mean for Northern Ireland?

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We’re back and diving straight into breaking politics, as Naomi explains the chilling implications of the UK government’s new “Northern Ireland Troubles Legacy Bill”. This controversial new law has provoked outrage from across the communities of Northern Ireland, uniting unionist and nationalist political parties against it. But what does this law entail, how will it affect the people of Northern Ireland, and why does it represent a tense new chapter in British-Irish relations? We explain all. Listeners to this episode might be interested in these previous instalments of the Irish Passport Podcast: Collusion: https://www.theirishpassport.com/podcast/s3-episode-3-collusion/ Poetry and Pain: https://www.theirishpassport.com/podcast/s3-episode-4-poetry-and-pain/ Thanks as always to our Patreon supporters for keeping the podcast running. If you would like to access extra content from the Irish Passport, you can support the show at www.patreon.com/theirishpassport.

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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.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay.
0:16.7	Okay. Hello, everyone. We're back. We're back from our summer rest and we're in for a whole new season of the Irish Passport podcast. Naomi, how are you? Are you feeling rested?
0:48.0	Hi, yes, thanks, Tim. Great to be back and hi to everybody.
0:51.0	Now, we're back actually jumping straight into political season
0:55.1	because a whole lot of things are happening at this beginning of September, 23.
1:00.2	There have been some really, really breaking developments that we need to talk about,
1:03.9	and that concerns you might have seen on the news today,
1:06.4	an extremely controversial bill that relates to Northern Ireland,
1:09.9	and that has passed the House of
1:11.2	Commons in Westminster. And Naomi, you've been reporting on this a little bit, so I'm going to ask you
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