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Travelling together to John Bruton’s funeral was easy compared with the tightrope they must walk soon

<strong>The long read:</strong> Datacentres are part of Ireland’s vision of itself as a tech hub. There are now more than 80, using vast amounts of electricity. Have we entrusted our memories to a system that might destroy them?

Lavery produced the sketch, which has never been seen in public, inside the Court of Criminal Appeal in London in 1916 during an appeal by Roger Casement.

Rendering of courtroom scene expected to fetch between £15,000 and £25,000

There are two distinct peoples in Ireland, who see and define themselves differently and antagonistically, the Catholic “Irish-Irish” Nationalists and the Protestant “British-Irish” Unionists. Ireland, which had been ruled by England since the 12th century, was partitioned in 1920-21 into Six and 26 Counties entities. The border dividing the Six and 26 Counties does not coincide, or even approximate to, the geographical location of the two distinct Irish peoples/ identities. It cuts right through them.