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Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
, Paul Howard, best known for the Ross O’Carroll Kelly series, turns his satirical eye from wealthy South Dublin to an imaginary government department devoted to preparing for the reunification of Ireland.
On today’s Inside Politics podcast he talks to Hugh about how the concept allowed him to explore both the absurdity of the border’s existence and the ridiculousness of trying to remove it They discuss the book’s origins as a sitcom, how his experience as a child in Ireland with an English accent helped him develop an ear for phonetic quirks and why Ireland’s Call may be the perfect anthem for a United Ireland.
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