John Downing

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506 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Sep

John Downing’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Indo Daily · Would a border poll actually deliver a united Ireland? · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

And despite the secularization of the southern counties and all of that, they still see it as a Catholic structure and and all of that.

So they have big misgivings.

But there are other questions, standards of living.

People always cite the health services, welfare state in the North.

Now, in actual

fact.

Things are probably better by now south of the border.

But there are other issues like for example, standard of cars that people drive north of the border, uh versus the more usual type of rust bucket that one has found driving around down here.

That is is unspoken but but a huge issue.

I think, you know, when the practical day to day uh things are past

People both sides of the border are going to take a lot of convincing.

Something has existed for a hundred years plus, you know, that carries a force of its own.

You look at Germany, for example, East Germany, West Germany, you know, that really only existed about 40-50 years, yet they are still trying to piece the

DDR and the old uh German Federal Republic together.

you know, uh thirty years on from re reunification.

So these these processes are slow and difficult and they're n not always neat or predictable.

The Indo Daily · Jim O’Callaghan v the Lawyers: The high-stakes legal aid showdown · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

One of the very bright boys from South County Dublin, son of a senior civil servant, very well educated, did very well at school, went to Gonzaga, that famous Jesuit college in South County Dublin.

Other people who went to Gonzaga include Michael McDowell, former governor.

Attorney General, Minister for Justice, Eamon Ryan, leader of the Green Party, many other people prominent in public life, onto UCD, studying law and a stint in Cambridge University.

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