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IRISH EXAMINER | October 30th, 2019
Taoiseach Would Like United Ireland, But Playwright Tom MacIntyre
Dies Aged 87
Only With Northern Consent C

aoiseach Leo proceedings to a divorce.
Varadkar has said “There is the sense that
The would like to we will get a deal. They President & Founding
Publisher
see a united Ireland in his will ratify it and they will Paddy McCarthy
lifetime. leave the European Union,
Editor
Mr Varadkar was taking but then the next thing Grahame Curtis
part in a phone-in show on starts, which is negotiating
radio station Today FM a new relationship,” he Associate Publisher
where listeners “could ask said. Irish playwright and poet Tom Marc-Yves Tumin
him anything”. “What we’re doing at MacIntyre has died aged 87. News Editor
Asked if he would like to the moment is a kind of The Cavan native was best known David Carter
see a united Ireland, he divorce. Members are for his theatre work, in particular Arts & Entertainment Editor
said: “I would, but only in deciding, making sure that “The Great Hunger.” Brad Balfour
accordance with the Good Earlier this week, UK the kids are looked after, MacIntyre also wrote two novels Sales Director
Friday Agreement so that’s Prime Minister Boris deciding the financial set- and six collections of poetry. John O’Rourke
only with the consent of Johnson was warned that tlement that type of thing. His play, The Gallant John Joe,
the majority of people in loyalists in Northern “The next step then is, won the Irish Times/ESB Irish Classified Advertising
John O’Rourke
Northern Ireland. Ireland will “not tolerate an how do we get on with Theatre Best New Play Award in
“That’s really important economic united Ireland”. each other after divorce 2002/ Art Director
stuff and nobody should be Sinn Féin vice president because we’re still going to He also played football his county, Heidi Gross Kelley
forced into anything they Michelle O’Neill said on need to have a friendship of and is survived by his wife Celine and Contributors
Joe Murphy, Joe Kavanagh, C.S.
don’t want. Tuesday that Brexit means some sort. his five children from his first mar- O’Brien, Mike Fitzpatrick, Seamus
“And also, I think, if we the British and Irish “So, it just moves on to riage to Peggy McCarthy. C Kelleher, Bert Randolph Sugar, John
ever get to that point, we Government needs to the next phase, but the Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
need to make sure that begin preparing for holding most important thing in the 14% Of Prisoners ‘Locked Up Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
unionists in Northern a border poll. Ms O’Neill first phase was just to pro- Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
Ireland and British people said the poll could take tect those really important For 19 Or More Hours A Day’ Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
Daly, Jim McKeon
in Northern Ireland feel place within five years. things like making sure Nearly a fifth of prisoners are now
that a united Ireland is a Asked how he feels there wasn’t the border being locked up in their cells for Contributing Photographers
warm place for them.” about the current Brexit between North and South more than 19 hours a day. Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
Wong
“We don’t want to have impasse, Mr Varadkar said and people’s rights are pro- A new report from the Irish Penal
a repeat of what happened Britain leaving the EU is tected and that people can Reform Trust has raised concerns Circulation
John Philip, Manager
100 years ago when a only stage one of the still travel freely between about the scale of overcrowding in North East - Paul Hamrock
minority were left behind.” process, and compared the Britain and Ireland.” C many facilities. West Coast - Jim Clement
It says that’s leading to some Historian
O’Dwyer & Bernstien, LLP inmates having to sleep on mattress- Events Consultant
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es on the floor of their cells.
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