Suzanne Harrington: My Irish passport is my most treasured possession

"It means that I now have more rights while living in the UK than a UK person living in the UK with a UK passport."
Suzanne Harrington: My Irish passport is my most treasured possession

Maybe it’s down to unintentionally doing intermittent fasting – not as a weight management thing, more a case of post-lockdown pre-Christmas blue-arsed-fly syndrome fuelled entirely by caffeine and adrenaline – I find my normal levels of fury at those Eton messers running (that is, ruining) the UK are approaching a kind of wild-eyed, mouth-foaming crescendo. I should probably have a banana

Brexit is bearing down on those of us daft enough to still be resident in the UK like a runaway truck, as we flop prostrate in the road, already flattened by Covid. Tesco are stockpiling food. Not for the festive rush, but for when we are reduced to eating each other’s pets and small children in January because the food delivery lorries are backed up in Calais. 

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