{"id":153842,"date":"2025-11-22T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153842\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:24:09","slug":"colin-murphy-a-100-year-puzzle-still-unsolved-why-irelands-border-remains-a-tricky-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153842\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Murphy: A 100-year puzzle still unsolved \u2013 why Ireland\u2019s Border remains a tricky issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A British soldier checks a driver's ID at a vehicle checkpoint on a border road in Co Fermanagh, in 1976. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/825a3083-a6c7-46f3-9fe4-7dc255db7339.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A British soldier checks a driver&#8217;s ID at a vehicle checkpoint on a border road in Co Fermanagh, in 1976. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This day 100 years ago, the Irish government was preparing to travel to London for a bout of knife-edge diplomacy in Downing Street \u2014 the results of which still resonate today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">WT Cosgrave\u2019s government faced an existential threat. Four years earlier, Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins had signed up to the peace treaty with Britain on the basis that it promised the eventual achievement of what Griffith called \u201cessential unity\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British soldier checks a driver&#8217;s ID at a vehicle checkpoint on a border road in Co Fermanagh,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,26913,43,3415],"class_list":{"0":"post-153842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-michael-collins","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sinn-fein"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}