Ireland has come too far to be dragged back in time by Brexit | Paul McGrade

The Good Friday agreement let the Republic lay ghosts to rest. Let’s not return to unwinnable debates about identity

We may be about to see the biggest Anglo-Irish row since the early 1980s. In the next few weeks don’t be surprised if Tory MPs and “sources close to the government” turn up the heat on the taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, branding him bloody-minded and reckless over insisting on a legal “backstop” to prevent a post-Brexit hard border in Ireland.

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