Herbaceous border might solve our thorny problem
WE SEEM to have reached an impasse as to what kind of Border we’ll have postBrexit. Hard or soft? Who knows?
Well, I’ve discovered a solution to this present woe and it comes from a book written in 1453, by the Irish monk Aloysius the Agitator, called ‘Impractical Solutions to Intractable Problems’. Its prescription for situations where “…neither rational agreement, nor compromised acquiescence, to a synthetic accordance of both parties to which, in deference to God’s will, might cease rancorous dispute, and discord, is not forthcoming, nor is likely to be so forthcoming, the felicitous opinion, for the man of God, is to go the way of the ass”.
Therefore, with regards to the question do you want a hard or soft Border, might I suggest Aloysius’ felicitous option of a “herbaceous” one: after all, it’s both hardy and perennial.
It ought to be noted that Aloysius was burned alive at the stake in 1462 for suggesting similar over a disputed boundary of the Pale. Malachi Maguire
Clane, Co Kildare