A recent article featured interviews with students from Northern Ireland studying at universities in Dublin.

“You’re not Irish. You’re not one of us,” read the headline.

A student from Downpatrick, who identifies as Irish and holds an Irish passport, was told she wasn’t really Irish as she was a northerner.

A young man called Toirealach wearing a GAA top was asked where he was from and when he said “Belfast”, the next question was: “Oh, are you a Protestant?”

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With a name like his and a GAA jersey, what were the chances, he asked.

It’s not surprising. It’s just sad that we are still a people apart.

Maybe it was ever so with Ulster people. My Donegal friend is an Ulster woman through and through – it’s just when they drew the line for the border, she ended up on the Free State........

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