Alan Barrett
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502 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
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The other difficulty now, of course, though, is that inflation has now entered the system.
OK, because inflation is now in the system, there's normally a reaction, which is perfectly understandable that people, for example, through wage negotiations will seek to have a wage increase.
You know, food prices are likely to go up.
There will be things that...
Planting won't have happened in the same way because of the, you know, the nitrogen issue.
And there's a whole range of knock on effects.
So I don't think we're going to be back to normal, let's say, by the end of the summer or anything like that.
Obviously, this is very positive, but I think it will take time to sort of work its way through.
Absolutely.
I mean, if you go back a while ago, we were worried about, for example, running out of jet fuel and actually not just sort of prices going up, but that there would be actually sort of constraints on supply of certain things.
It looks like we will at least avoid the most sort of catastrophic dimensions of that.
And obviously that's really positive.
Alan?
Yeah, no, it's a fascinating article.
And again, it digs much deeper, really, I think, into what was going on.
So, I mean, Mary sort of talked about the point there already, that one of the things that these areas suffer from is the fact that there's still a loyalist paramilitary presence, which seems to be sort of, you know, curtailing normality to a certain extent.
But just to broaden it, I mean, one of the things we've known for quite a while is,
is that working class loyalist communities, to a certain extent, were left behind after the Good Friday Agreement.
And it's a very well established fact that especially if you look at working class Protestant boys in Northern Ireland, their rates of sort of stool completion and general success lags substantially behind other groups.
So something has happened in Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Agreement.
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