Ciarán Dunbar

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249 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Newscast · Who’s Causing The Violence In Belfast? · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

You know, this wouldn't be happening.

And the debate now, Coase, has now seemed to focus, in their minds at least, and in some other unionists, on this border, the open border.

But that open border was...

between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland is a vital part of the peace process.

So in a sense, we always return to Churchill's dreary steeples.

It always comes back to us.

It always comes back to that border issue.

That's pie in the sky.

I mean, it just can't happen for two reasons.

I mean, politically, that would be the end of the peace process.

Now, when I say the end of the peace process, I don't mean a return to widespread Republican violence.

That's not what I mean.

But it would end... The current settlement, yeah.

The current settlement, that would end.

And also, we have to look at the practicality of it.

You know...

During the Troubles, there was 30,000 British troops and 20,000 RUC men of one description or another.

There were watchtowers, there were helicopters, there were armoured cars, the bridges were blown up and it didn't close the border.

It's simply not possible.

So, I mean, so you have to put it like that.

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