Newry nuclear dump a possibility: Renewables are the best option

Irrespective of what kind of a border Brexit fathers, be it a Donald Trump stop-’em-all wall or an arrangement satisfied by one of John McGahern’s patrols of the imagination, the report that the borderland town of Newry is one of 45 sites being considered as a place to dispose of the United Kingdom’s nuclear waste will stir a predictable response.

That response is unlikely to be celebratory, but may, like so many other public positions today, be built on emotion.