Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK Referendum Result: Discusssion (Resumed)
12:05 pm
Mr. John Sheridan:
Yes, caution. There is no doubt but that there is mental turmoil along the Border because a huge number of families are joined at the hip. Whereas one area of the North may have been rather a cold place, there was a warmer reception in the hinterland along the Border where they lived and in the South, and many marriages and many farms are spread across both sides of the Border. There is a voice there not being heard yet. If Article 50 is ever triggered - its triggering in March is a rush job to bounce people into it - we will not lose that big voice in Westminster. To look at the Westminster seats yesterday when James Brokenshire was announcing what was happening in Stormont, not very many people were there to listen. They did not seem very-----
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