Diarmaid Ferriter: We hardly need further reminders of how little the British Tories think of Ireland

Stand-off between the British and Irish governments over immigration is another illustration of the complexities of the ties between the two countries being denied in order to strike for ‘freedom’We hardly need further reminders of how little the British Tories think of Ireland, but unfortunately we have more, courtesy of former prime ministeris briefly touched on, in order for Truss to declare: “we must have a regime that is in regulatory terms separate from the EU and part of the UK”; this in...

The current stand-off between the British and Irish governments over immigration is another illustration of the complexities of the ties between the two countries being denied in order to strike for “freedom”. For the Tories, Ireland historically has been a pawn in other power games or an irritant to be denied.

Professor of migration law Bernard Ryan has pointed to the degree of quietude about the CTA because of historical reluctance “to give its content publicity”. In the early 1950s, both governments accepted that controls on the Irish border were not feasible, the Irish Department of Justice accepting, “we have no check on the entry of aliens from ... and we could not impose an effective check on account of the existence of the Border”.

A research briefing document on the CTA from last summer is available in the House of Commons library and observes: “Both governments recognise that there is potential for the CTA to be abused by people seeking to evade the usual controls on entry to Ireland or the UK… Operation Gull is a long-standing joint scheme by the UK and Ireland immigration authorities which aims to intercept and remove migrants who use this route to enter illegally.

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