Richard Curran: After all the trash talk about migrant border issue, the Tories know our fates are intertwined

Cartoon by Graeme Keyes

Richard Curran

You could be forgiven for thinking relations between the Irish and British governments had hit some kind of new low this week. Think again and remind yourself of what it was like during the Troubles or the middle-Brexit negotiations.

A public spat about migrants fleeing the UK to come over the Border to Dublin triggered a bizarre round of political trash talk.