Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Irish Central Border Area Network

Mr. Andy Hallewell:

I will add a very quick soundbite on the back of what Mr. Campbell described. In 2018 we had a project that was funded by the reconciliation fund. We brought young people together from both traditions and both sides of the Border to look at Brexit. It was a difficult sell because they were not into Brexit in any shape or form. We used the vehicle of storytelling to try to elicit some of their thoughts and feelings about Brexit. We ended up having a residential event in County Donegal. We brought with us a group of young people from a very deprived part of Omagh from the unionist tradition. Many of them said to us during the event that they had never travelled across the Border before and they had never thought of doing so. It is one example, although a kind of microcosm, but it is something which could be built on through the opportunities of PEACE Plus and other measures.

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