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How would the health service manage a ‘united Ireland’?
Could medicine be a healing force on the island?
If there were real aspirations of national unity – or political coherence on this island (as it might be better defined) – the health service would have a relatively simple role. It would simply be to duplicate the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, writes
Terence Cosgrave
We have never tried the Tom Sawyer method of persuasion on this island – preferring to believe instead that we can persuade others to join us on our political journey with threats and intimidation – despite the fact that their stated self-definition is to travel to a different place.
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2. Dublin is ‘taking it with a ‘grin’ of salt’
Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney, as far back as autumn 2017, played a blinder in securing the North’s special status along with then-Irish EU Commissioner, Phil Hogan. Taoiseach Micheál Martin also worked hard at trying to keep Johnson on board.
When the Taoiseach was talking directly to Johnson on Tuesday, about a joint Irish-British 2030 soccer World Cup bid, there was no mention of this announcement which came 24 hours later.
Now Ireland is caught in the middle. Unless there is real talk on compromise, the options narrow: there could be “a hard border” in Ireland. Or, the rest of the EU could begin checks on all island of Ireland goods, limiting the benefits of single market export access.
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