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Tim O'Connor
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Lawyer, writer on rugby and the law, rugby tragic, sailor. All views entirely personal.
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Tim O'Connor
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Mick Wallace’s look and some of Mattie McGrath’s attitudes, alright.
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The anger from some Northern Irish business and business reps today over DUP accusations that they are ‘puppets’ is really striking, and to my mind unprecedented twitter.com/bsholdings/sta…
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Tim O'Connor
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As with Mams, so with Mammys: nobody’s going to risk getting that, “No, it’s alright, I’m *fine*” disappointed look. 😉
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Tim O'Connor
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Jordi Murphy was born in Barcelona. His parents are both Irish. He is an Irish citizen since birth. They moved home when he was 9. He has played all his rugby in Ireland. If you or Pichot think he’s not Irish or “foreign” because of where he was born, then you are fools.
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Tim O'Connor
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Like I said: do both.
And fast.
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But, here you have the vice-chairman of World Rugby trying to push lifted clickbait that would suggest Jordi isn’t quite Irish.
It is shoddy, shameful stuff and nobody in that office should be doing this or anything like it.
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Tim O'Connor
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To show just how meaningless it is, Rhys Ruddock was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Welsh father, is an Irish citizen since birth, learned a lot of his rugby in Wales, plays for Ireland.
Is Rhys Irish and Jordi not?
The answer is, of course: they’re both Irish.
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Tim O'Connor
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Second, the data lifted is shoddy.
Take the Irish players. Jordi Murphy was born in Barcelona to Irish parents. They moved home when he was 9. Has his being born in Barcelona any relevance to being Irish, a citizen of Ireland from birth?
Not a tap.
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Tim O'Connor
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First, if you’re going to lift from a source, acknowledge it. I have no time at all for that source, but lifting their - shoddy - work without acknowledgement is, bluntly, plagiarism. And not an approach a global rights holder is wise to encourage.
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Tim O'Connor
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The problem there is, they fought on that turf, they’ll damn well do it again because it worked. So that turf has to be contested, as well as the moral high ground, because if the polls are this narrow when the looming disaster is clear, not doing so risks losing again.
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Tim O'Connor
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In which the vice-chairman of World Rugby shows himself to be a unfit for the role.
Thread explaining why. twitter.com/ap9_/status/10…
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Tim O'Connor
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Seconded. This is pitiful and shameful stuff.
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Nicolai von Ondarza
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Wow, that is indeed a step change. And it shows that leaving the EU has not only economic, but also political costs in terms of solidarity between the member states. #brexit twitter.com/rosscolquhoun/…
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Tim O'Connor
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Well, Athlone is just down the road...
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There is room for a pro-FoM principled campaign, and for one on practical politics to split the blocking cohort.
There probably has to be. Because faex Brittaniae.
But if it needs both to beat those out to end all FoM, then damn well do both. Because it’s not Plato’s Republic.
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Tim O'Connor
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This is where I tend to quote Cicero on Cato, because that's the clash.
"But, though he has the best intentions and from the best motives, he still sometimes hurts the republic, because he speaks as though he lived in Plato’s Republic, and not in Romulus' shit-heap".
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Tim O'Connor
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If it's selling a "Well, we'll ask for reforms that are actually the status quo", then nobody's pretending it's perfect or principled. But, like Heriot said, politics should be like an andouillette - it should be a bit shitty, but not too much.
The question is what's too much.
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Tim O'Connor
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So, then, if you want to keep *any* FoM, you have to crack that blocking cohort. It might not even be deliverable, or realistic, but you have to find a way to crack that cohort to save FoM, as well as everything else - including livelihoods, even lives - that Brexit will wreck.
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Tim O'Connor
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Practical politics, then, has to face the grim truth that there are enough - if not a majority, certainly a blocking cohort - for whom "less foreigners" is decisive.
Leave knew this, descended into the pit to sell it, and won. They sold their souls, but ended *everyone's* FoM.
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Tim O'Connor
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So, principle faces the not-all-that-small problem that to persuade people in a matter of months that foreigners moving in and out is a A Good Thing when up against hundreds of years of reflexive Foreigners Are Bad is not what one might call an easy sell.
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