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Sep 3, 2026
Tim McGarryHOST
They always told the truth.
Cormac MooreHOST
But the Irish News obviously told the truth, but at the time, were there many Unionist readers of the Irish News? I wonder whether, you know.
Cormac MooreHOST
Fewer than there are now.
Tim McGarryHOST
Yeah, I would think so, yeah.
Tim CairnsPANELIST
He's not Donald Duck.
Tim CairnsPANELIST
They know who, that, that he's someone who, who is a thoughtful Unionist contributor.
Tim CairnsPANELIST
Now, on the other side of it, what on Earth was someone in a quasi-judicial body texting a Slugger O'Toole article or tweets to, to, to the other people on that body and say, "Well, before you make the decision, maybe you should have a read of this." [laughs] I mean, this is bizarre.
Tim CairnsPANELIST
This is bizarre stuff.
15 MINS LATER
Michael McKernanPANELIST
[laughs]
Tim CairnsPANELIST
But, um, [laughs] so, so now the, now the question-
Michael McKernanPANELIST
And I never say Unionist mindset
Tim CairnsPANELIST
No, no, no.
Cormac MooreHOST
Um, it was, it was to, to, you know, s- stop the IRA.
Cormac MooreHOST
Now, a- and they were under pressure from British government as well, and from, um, the Unionists, as you said, because, um, the, the, the Irish government's constantly getting, uh, um, pushback from, uh, Unionists and, uh, British government saying, "You know, this is a, you know, you, you, you're, you're letting the IRA into your territory.
Cormac MooreHOST
They're using it as a staging post for attacks in the North, and then they come back over the border and nothing happens to them," you know? So, you know.
Tim McGarryHOST
Well, that, I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a Unionist trope that they still say now about the Troubles, that the Republic was a safe haven for-
Tim McGarryHOST
...
Tim McGarryHOST
the Irish government's ambivalence to the North.
Tim McGarryHOST
And they're al- and, you know, Unionists would say they're a hostile foreign state.
Tim McGarryHOST
They've got articles two and three.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
So Caledon is just inside the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
It was majority Protestant, and it's controlled in 1968 by the Unionist Party.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
And as we described last time, if you're controlled by the Unionist Party, if you're in a village there or town, then most of the houses, almost all of them, are given to Unionist voters, i.e. Protestants.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
There are more than 250 Catholic families in the area that are on the waiting list for housing, and some of those families have been waiting for as long as a decade.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
But this particular council house, which is 9 Kinnaird Park, has just been allocated to a 19-year-old woman called Emily Beatty, who is a secretary for a local solicitor who's very big in the Unionist Party.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
Emily Beatty is engaged to a member of the reservist B Specials, and she is, of course, a Protestant.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
And to local Catholics, the fact that she's getting this house seems absolutely outrageous.
8 MINS LATER
Dominic SandbrookHOST
It's much harder to do, I would say.
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