Tide turning for Scottish bravehearts disillusioned with Westminster

Despite fear of change, Scottish people are disillusioned with Westminster and believe it’s time to make their own decisions, Jonathan deBurca Butler discovers while talking to Scots living in Ireland

WHEN I bumped into Newstalk broadcaster, Henry McKean, in Dublin in July I told him that I was hoping to talk to him about the upcoming independence referendum for the article you have just started to read. Though he was born in England and has spent much of his life here in Ireland, McKean considers himself a Scot. His father is Scottish and he spent four pre-teenage years in Glasgow.

“There’s no way they’ll go for it,” he said to me that day. “They’re a bunch of wimps.”