Jun 11, 2026 · 24 min · 5 segments
The Common Travel Area and migration under the microscope, Ireland to spend €165m on hosting the EU presidency, that soccer fixture and alumina from Co Limerick ending up in Russia.
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Juliet GashPanelistThe government here... seem to be in conversation with the government of the UK, or they have been for quite a while.
But at the same time, there's a new emphasis coming on this.
It's really flashbacks to this month, 10 years ago, the Brexit vote and all that fell out in the years afterwards in terms of the invisible border on the island of Ireland and all that had happened.
But yes, this back in focus after it emerged, the alleged suspect in Monday's knife attack had came from Paris, entered the island of Ireland at Dublin and then travelled to Belfast where he was granted refugee status.
The message from the Irish government really is that there is constant engagement with the British side, that they have improved.
But you look at the British media on the other side and there's a lot of criticism of Ireland on this.
British cabinet ministers facing tough questions on BBC radio for example and of course you have the comments as well from the DUP such as Gavin Robinson looking for the open porous borders he calls it to be closed so it's a real delicate one for the coalition but they are really trying to stress that there's an ongoing engagement with Britain on this.
Of course, it's not a straightforward thing in terms of the border, though, and the common travel area, Juliet, because as we know, Jim O'Callaghan and the department here have been saying that for a very long time, the vast bulk of asylum seekers coming to Ireland are now coming down across the border as well.
It seems that actually there's a mismatch more come down from north to south than go up though the records aren't very clear.
I think we just have figures on the amount of people who do claim asylum at point of entry in Ireland and the assumption is that the rest of them which is the bulk around 80-90% are coming in another way which would be the assumption being by Belfast.
they're not claiming asylum at the airport or at seaports so they're coming in another way.
The only other way can be obviously across
And so I suppose in a riposte to Gavin Robinson, Padraig Tobin saying, no, what we need is a border down the Irish Sea.
So we're back to this conversation of where does the border go? The difficulty is, or one of the advantages to the island of Ireland and that free travel, is that there are no border checks between the north and the south.
And while technically the Common Travel Agreement doesn't apply to non-EU, non-UK citizens, they're not checking.
yes.
Because from all of our research, we're all taking great interest in the CTA at the moment.
It applies to UK and Irish citizens.
The government here... seem to be in conversation with the government of the UK, or they have been for quite a while.
But at the same time, there's a new emphasis coming on this.
It's really flashbacks to this month, 10 years ago, the Brexit vote and all that fell out in the years afterwards in terms of the invisible border on the island of Ireland and all that had happened.
But yes, this back in focus after it emerged, the alleged suspect in Monday's knife attack had came from Paris, entered the island of Ireland at Dublin and then travelled to Belfast where he was granted refugee status.
The message from the Irish government really is that there is constant engagement with the British side, that they have improved.
But you look at the British media on the other side and there's a lot of criticism of Ireland on this.
British cabinet ministers facing tough questions on BBC radio for example and of course you have the comments as well from the DUP such as Gavin Robinson looking for the open porous borders he calls it to be closed so it's a real delicate one for the coalition but they are really trying to stress that there's an ongoing engagement with Britain on this.
Of course, it's not a straightforward thing in terms of the border, though, and the common travel area, Juliet, because as we know, Jim O'Callaghan and the department here have been saying that for a very long time, the vast bulk of asylum seekers coming to Ireland are now coming down across the border as well.
It seems that actually there's a mismatch more come down from north to south than go up though the records aren't very clear.
I think we just have figures on the amount of people who do claim asylum at point of entry in Ireland and the assumption is that the rest of them which is the bulk around 80-90% are coming in another way which would be the assumption being by Belfast.
they're not claiming asylum at the airport or at seaports so they're coming in another way.
The only other way can be obviously across
And so I suppose in a riposte to Gavin Robinson, Padraig Tobin saying, no, what we need is a border down the Irish Sea.
So we're back to this conversation of where does the border go? The difficulty is, or one of the advantages to the island of Ireland and that free travel, is that there are no border checks between the north and the south.
And while technically the Common Travel Agreement doesn't apply to non-EU, non-UK citizens, they're not checking.
yes.
Because from all of our research, we're all taking great interest in the CTA at the moment.
It applies to UK and Irish citizens.
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