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LUAS SERVICES ARE being affected in both directions on the Green Line due to an earlier incident in which a passenger took ill on a tram heading to the city centre.
The passenger became sick on the northbound tram at the Milltown stop near Clonskeagh with Luas saying that a medical emergency had caused a 20 minute delay.
Services were affected in both directions following the delay but Luas has now said that this caused services to be rerouted and their destinations changed.
“Please accept our apologies for this and for any and all inconvenience this has caused you this morning,” Luas said in a tweet this morning.
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Border poll not border posts – first step in dealing with the headache.
@Toon Army: Why for it to be rejected by the Nationalists in the north?
Before a border poll we need to get our own house in order.
Example a man with 4 kids earning a decent wage but has used the NHS his whole life. That is one example you will be asking families to give up free health care, decent services provided for their property tax, cheaper prescriptions, cheaper road tax and insurance.
That is leaving out the fact that the more hard line unionists hate everything Irish.
I remember that road up to the late 90s & there was no checkpoints on the actual multiple border crossings as there was no towns between them. There was occasional checkpoints that either end. Up to the early 2000s the Cavan surface was awful and Fermanagh side was smooth and like heaven of a surface compared to Cavan even though our road tax was fair dearer and boy is out pre 08 tax now insane compared to there highest luxury new car tax rate.Another reason why there was no checkpoint was possibly as the song goes “there is plenty of lakes in Fermanagh” as there is alot around that road as well.
United Ireland :)
@ED: __The Tory Party are the only ones interested in positioning a border between Northern Ireland and the South…they need to sort it out.
@George Hogan: No they’re not, the Tory party have zero interest in a hard border between Northern and Southern Ireland. The only ones who want it are the bureaucrats in Europe.
Someone should tell the Germans. They are the only ones interested in having a border.
@Revolting Peasant:
Funny, i thought it was the British and the Ulster Unionists that resulted in the partition of this island.
You have some cheek to blame the Germans, who have ploughed billions of their own taxpayer cash into both sides of the border.
@Revolting Peasant:
The British Empire imposed this border not The German.
@Revolting Peasant:
The absolute stupidity of certain Irish people who use each and every opportunity to bash the EU and Germany really knows no bounds. Britain votes to leave the EU and its Germanys fault they havent a clue what theyre at, christ almighty
Thankfully as every poll shows, theyre an extreme minority
@Revolting Peasant: WTF does this have to do with Germany? Trying living in the real world.
@Con Murphy: unionist population across the NORTH OF Ireland now below 50 % population. . We have 2 choices either we go for repartition of the 6 county state where over 70 % of West of the bann is Catholic and contains over 60 % of its land mass or build on strong relationship with unionist and with Britain it would be better chance of United Ireland and peaceful one too look how unionist population have warm to the South since the ending of the Troubles.. i think unionists and nationalists on this island have so much more in common than they relies.
@Fred Jensen: F Germany , don’t think they won’t be getting it back Fred with interest , easy for them when there selling the whole world turbines and motors
The past was a British/Irish enforced border, the future is a EU (German) imposed border.
But your all so blinded by hate from your one sided version of history you can’t see that.
@Revolting Peasant:
The past was a British imposed border (are you actually blaming the Irish for the partition of this island?). And the future is a British imposed border due to their choice to leave the EU customs union. Can you and your tabloid reading ilk get that into your little skulls.
@Fred Jensen: You should try to get your head around the concept that it will likely be an EU enforced border not a British one, hard I know for your tiny europhile mind.
@Revolting Peasant: why? Wasn’t the whole point of Brexit so Britain could control their own borders?
@Dave O Keeffe: Brexit was a plethora of reasons but I think you’re referring to removing the rights of EU migrants to live, work and claim in any EU country they choose. Not a checkpoint charlie situation just control of the labour market as it drives down t&c’s same as here.
@Revolting Peasant: Apart from EU migrants with an Irish passport. I wonder if anti EU Irish would be so keen about it if they planned restrictions on Irish citizens as well
@Bobby wilson: Just swallow your pride and be done with it – rejoin the UK.
@Fred Jensen: Fred, 26 counties chose to leave the UK (then submitting to defacto rule from Rome then Brussels, but at least not London where there were 100 democratically elected IRISH MPs!!) Now the UK chooses to leave the EU.
So who’s “fault” is it?
@Bernard: .. solution to the 6 couty state is never going to be a 100th % unionist or 100th % nationalist days of 1 million protestants and 1/2 million Catholics . … Catholic population is up at 900 thousands and protestant population is down to 900 thousands. .. nothing will happen without the consent of the Catholic /nationalist /republican population …
@Bernard: 26 counties didn’t choose anything. britain had already partitioned the country by the time of the treaty negotiations
I’m just astounded that a journal journalist actually left Dublin and came to the border. The population on the other side don’t want a hard border, we don’t want a hard border, the British govt don’t want a hard border so who actually wants one? The traditional smuggling interests would love one. It’s years since they all built their massive houses. Maybe they’ll go high rise this time.
@Patrick J. O’Rourke: ACTUALLY the British are desperate for a hard border…they had a vote based on just that. It resulted in a thing called Brexit. Maybe you’ve heard of it?
They may claim to not want one in the north, but if Belfast suddenly has a refugee city we’ll see.
Headaches are only for the Customs. Happy days ahead for border smuggling. It will be like the good old days.
This isn’t that hard to sort out, the UK is leaving the EU so if everyone could pick up their toys put on their big boy pants and make a deal in everyone’s interest. The sun will rise after brexit.
The Germans don’t like borders it means they have no control
@FlopFlipU: Is that why Germany has no land border?
Why is everyone going on about borders its the EU as usual bullying us telling us how to run our country loaning us money to bail out the bond holders and holding us to ransom over it.you can be sure they will insist on a hard border but we shoukd tell them where to go we cant afford a hard border never mind the 6 counties
@Mark Dawson: Ireland ratified the treaties which allow for hard or soft borders. Every EU country with an external border gets funding from the EU to maintain that border. The “EU” aren’t telling us anything we haven’t already agreed too.
@Mark Dawson: I have a strange admiration for people like you. Mostly this sort of hysterical rubbish is only posted by anonymous cowards. I am glad to see you at least will put your name to this opinion.
Now, what about the British bullying?
We don’t need a border Irish and English have their own work/travel agreements bring in a car we pay vrt, bring in drink cigarettes same laws as now would stay the same for people wanting to get into UK that would stay the same all those Europeans are hardly going to start working illegally. And same laws that govern goods would be the same, there are things you can’t buy here you can get in the North.
The UK will more than likely not put up a border between north and south things will remain the same as now if not better the good Friday agreement would be non existent if a border was to be put in place the UK and Ireland have very good trade relations and if the EU respect us as a nation they will give us and the UK an allowance to have a free crossing border as is now I currently travel to and from Lisnaskea from the Rep. and 1 in 5 of the vehicles I meet on the road are southern reg.
Well done to all the Alt-Right Trump fanboys who were celebrating Brexit, what a mess your fellow citizens are in now, morons.
Build a wall
Yet despite BREXIT being the biggest challenge to the peoples North and South of the border, Provisional SF cowards still put their cult before normal politics, only interested in cheap populism rather than responsibility
The article says “quirks of geography may illicit a sort of bemused curiosity from outsiders”. The verb should be ‘elicit’ meaning to draw out. The adjective ‘illicit’ means not legal.
Give it 10 years, there wont be a British Border in Ireland or a ‘Northern Ireland’ either.
Everything the Brits touch, they balls up. Their problem, let them drown trying to fix it.
@Tomás O’Loughlin: you seem to have remarkable faith that the Irish are capable of doing anything right!
The only ones who want a hard border are the unionists. They believe it will safeguard their precious union.
Of course there will be a hard border,people traffickers will dump people here to cross the border to the U.K.,one of the UK’s big issue is controlling their borders and no one over there is stupid enough to believe that we will effectively Mann our borders.
It’s back to the mattresses then .
Seems likely the British will say the Irish border is EU problem….Then we should tell the EU it’s not our problem….If the British and Irish governments refuse to set up this hard border then the EU themselves will.have to do it….
@John003: Yes then we will not be able to nip to ASDA for a few cheap bottles of Vodka without a passport.
@John003: all of the EU countries decided on the rules and treaties for the EU. We decided and agreed on how the EU treats with countries outside of the EU. There is no such thing as a separate entity EU, so “they” won’t have to deal with the border, it’s the countries that make up the EU that will deal with the border of which Ireland is one. Saying the Irish government can refuse to recognise the border is a fantasy.
@John003:
Yeah and the EU answer will be in that case that Ireland is outside of the Common Market and any goods from Ireland has to go through external customs as well.
@John003: wait until the north becomes the main route for people smuggling and refugees. Remember Calais. Imagine that in Belfast.
The UK can’t demand that the EU have an unprotected border to an outside the EU country, and frankly considering the entire basis for Brexit, the fact that they’re now pushing open borders is ironic indeed.
Ask them what they did when the original border was in existence? It is interesting to see that a fuel business is mentioned here, has that anything to do with the fact that it is in close proximity to the actual border? Just asking ?
There’s one obvious solution.
You’ll have to leave too.
@Damocles: No. The only obvious solution is a reunited Ireland within the EU.
It’s considered a separate country today , it’ll be the same when they leave , just media dramatising everything . They got different currency different rates , what exactly is going to change the day they leave , duck all . They bang on about security but have they not got security going to the uk from ni
The UK wants more control over its border, and to accomplish that they want to force the EU to have an open border with a non-EU country.
What a mess.
I can’t see how this will actually play out without some sort of border control.
And hey, what happens if a future UK gov changes immigration policy, and suddenly loads of unskilled workers flow into the Republic via the UK?
This is gonna end badly.
Should be funny Scouting Ireland have a site called Castlesaunders. It was build as a peace center with cross border funding. if you drive in front drive your entering from Co. Cavan and if you exit by back drive your in Co. Fermanagh
The site is split between the two Counties.
Looks to me that a hard border will only happen if dissidents create one by their traditional methods.
Am quite sure that neither government wants to man border posts, which then become targets needing protection, with all the risks & negative consequences for citizens on both sides, never mind the integrated trade aspects.
As for a border poll, forcing one in the short term is very likely to push everyone into defensive mode, & it would fail anyway, leaving a chasm of mistrust again.
Let’s see what emerges from negotiations, which are time limited, so sit tight.
Looks like that border was drawn by a child.
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