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James Conor Patterson

Doesn’t the government know that leaving the ECHR would breach the Good Friday Agreement?

The agreement is crucial to peace in Northern Ireland.

By James Conor Patterson

Doesn't the government know that leaving the ECHR would breach the Good Friday Agreement?

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Brexit will destroy my late grandfather’s dream of an open Irish border

My grandfather, who died the same week as the Brexit vote, experienced the humiliation of crossing checkpoints just to…

By James Conor Patterson

“Bar Story”: a new poem by James Conor Patterson

That night he takes the freight ferry from Heysham to Warrenpoint and stands by the railing of the upper…

By James Conor Patterson

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