Now it is back, and the island of Ireland is staring down the barrel of a hard border. Ireland is caught between undoubtedly ignorant rightwing Eurosceptic British politicians and the mammoth Brussels bureaucracy. Theresa May can insist all she likes about being benign, but I fear she is part of a process – a process – of not taking Ireland or Northern Ireland at all seriously. The reversion to historic type was well signalled by the insulting appointment of Theresa Villiers as Northern Ireland secretary. Alison HackettDun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland• So Arlene Foster thinks a Corbyn-led government would be “disastrous for Northern Ireland”.

Source: The Guardian November 19, 2017 19:07 UTC