In their daily lives, Northerners seem more grown-up than Southerners
The lines of office blocks along the Liffey quays are monuments to present success, not past glories. Photograph Nick BradshawThose words, allegedly spoken by William of Orange to his troops on the eve of the Battle of the Boyne, are painted on a gable wall that greets you on entering the Sandy Row area of.
‘I would do it again in a heartbeat’: former RUC officer consigned to a wheelchair by the IRA on serving in the Troubles One Border, two systems, endless complications: ‘My NI colleagues work from home while I am forced to commute to an empty office’ Anyhow, my mind wanders but the bus does not. Before long Banbridge is bypassed and Newry safely navigated. The Border comes into view; except it doesn’t really. Thankfully the warnings that Brexit would herald a return to physical infrastructure on the Border have not come to pass, but borders are more insidious than that.
Yet while Dublin has its problems, these are largely problems of success and not of backwardness. Moreover, they are problems that Belfast could help to solve. Dublin is bursting at the seams, whereas Belfast has the capacity to absorb much of this pressure if only their economies could work more closely together.
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