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Podcast: The BelTel
Episode: What Dublin’s secret files reveal about NI, Trimble, Bruton, JFK and Casement
Description: Unionists fiercely resist calls for a border poll for on a United Ireland, but that was not always the case. David Trimble campaigned for a poll in 2002 – secret files reveal he was dismissed. Newly released Dublin files reveal former taoiseach John Bruton was suspicious not only of Sinn Féin and the SDLP, but even his own Department of Foreign Affairs. Other files reveal a young John F Kennedy was happy enough with partition of Ireland and how Roger Casement was a source of controversy long after his execution. Ralph Reigel from the Irish Independent joins Ciarán Dunbar...