Bradley, Denis (9 October 2017), Denis Bradley: There will never again be a border in Ireland, at: 6 April 2023
• Regarding talks about the re-imposition of a hard border in the run-up to Brexit in 2017 and how much a burden it had been for those that lived near it for much of their lives until unrestricted crossing was permitted.
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For those of us who are approaching senility and who have lived near or beside it, the Border has been a pain in the ass for most of our lives.

— Denis Bradley

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "For those of us who are approaching senility and who have lived near or beside it, the Border has been a pain in the ass for most of our lives." in the context of "Bradley, Denis (9 October 2017), Denis Bradley: There will never again be a border in Ireland, at: 6 April 2023
• Regarding talks about the re-imposition of a hard border in the run-up to Brexit in 2017 and how much a burden it had been for those that lived near it for much of their lives until unrestricted crossing was permitted." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Denis Bradley

Denis Bradley is a former vice-chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, which oversees the running of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in Northern Ireland. Bradley is a freelance journalist and a former priest.