copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2018-03-22): The UK-Ireland border, which is proving to be the one puzzle Brexiteers can’t solve, runs through the back garden of his family home. [...] "I grew up at the border, I know how porous it is and it just won’t work if you try to control it here," says O’Reilly, furious that with a year to go until Brexit no practical solution has been agreed. [...] The Irish Government has estimated around 30,000 people cross the border every day. Most are commuting to work, travelling to see friends and family or to use health services. Thousands of them are schoolchildren.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2024-10-07): Border markings are inconspicuous, in common with many inter-state borders in the European Union. As the two states share a Common Travel Area and (as of 2021[update]) Northern Ireland (the only exception within the UK and only in some respects) and the Republic of Ireland are participants in the European Single Market, the border is essentially an open one, allowing free passage of people since 1923 and of goods since 1993. There are circa 270 public roads that cross the border.[3][4] Following the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, this border is also the frontier between the EU and a non-member country. The Brexit withdrawal agreement commits all involved parties to maintaining an open border in Ireland, so that (in many respects) the de facto frontier is the Irish Sea between the two islands. [...] Traffic [edit]The border is linked with 268 (often approximated as "up to 275") border crossing points.[3] Every month approximately 177,000 lorries, 208,000 vans, and 1,850,000 cars cross the border.[20] Around 30,000 people cross the border daily to commute.[21] [...] The larger and busier border crossings include national primary (N) roads in the Republic of Ireland which connect to primary route (A) roads in Northern Ireland. As of 2007, the busiest such roads were the N1/A1 route (Dundalk/Newry), N13/A2 route (Letterkenny/Derry) and N15/A38 route (Lifford/Strabane).[39]
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2022-02-03): Northern Ireland's Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots had ordered checks to stop from 00:01 GMT on Thursday. The checks are required as part of a Brexit deal, known as the Northern Ireland Protocol. [...] This avoids the need for checks on the physical border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2019-01-15): The Border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has been the issue that has bedevilled the Brexit negotiations, one that has overshadowed the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union. [...] The crisis provoked by the need to ensure that the Border remains "open" in all circumstances has come as a surprise to many of those who voted in the referendum on June 23rd, 2016. [...] Brussels believed a hard border could be avoided and the Belfast Agreement upheld if Northern Ireland remained fully aligned with the European Union's customs union and part of the single market after Brexit.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2017-05-14): Brian McDermott crosses the Border from his Donegal home in Moville every day to get to his job in Derry, but now he worries that the impending departure of the UK from the European Union could threaten not just his job but also where he lives. [...] His experience is typical of many who live and work along the Border. Some 30,000 people cross the Border daily along its 450km length. Half of them do so to travel to work or school, and many of them do so from Donegal into its natural hinterland of Derry. Most are well-educated, and cross the Border for well-paid jobs in education or healthcare. "In terms of work-based commuting, it's all about the northwest," says Justin Gleeson, the director of the All-Island Research Observatory. "One of the key things that's come up regarding the Brexit debate is the question of just how connected we are across the Border, and how people are flowing across the Border. If you imagine those 30,000 people crossing the Border on a daily basis, having a real hard Brexit with border controls slowing that whole movement down would completely change everything.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2018-03-30): Background Evidence on the movement of people across the Northern Ireland-Ireland Border Cross-border travel and movements between Northern Ireland and Ireland are extensive and, for many people, a regular feature of everyday life. People make cross-border journeys for a wide variety of reasons including to work, study, shop, visit friends and family, or as tourists. The paper examines the extent of the movement of people across the Northern Ireland – ROI land border and the role it plays in the economies of Northern Ireland and Ireland. It also examines movements between GB and ROI.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2022-10-15): Crossing the border is something most people have taken for granted since all Troubles-era security checkpoints were removed in the early noughties, following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. More than 30,000 people cross the border each day for work. [...] Non-Irish EU citizens who want to cross the border into the north will have to apply for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) before their journey.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2024-07-10): On Tuesday 31 August 2021 NISRA published a slide pack and infographic providing a summary of migration in Northern Ireland and the movement of people and transport between Northern Ireland, Ireland and Great Britain. They combine data outputs from the Northern Ireland Census 2011, the Ireland Census 2011, and the Labour Force Survey to detail the current level of migration in Northern Ireland. Following from this Higher Education Statistics, Tourism Statistics, Department for Infrastructure Transport Modelling, the CSO Cross Border Shopping Module and Mobile Network Operator Data will be used to highlight the complex people and vehicle crossings along the Northern Ireland and Ireland border. It is planned this will be further updated when more data becomes available.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2017-12-05): While significant progress has been made in relation to the first two, the Irish border issue remained unresolved. The roughly 300-mile frontier runs from Carlingford Lough in the north-east of Ireland to Lough Foyle in the north. It is estimated that more than 30,000 people cross the border every day – and Northern Ireland is particularly exposed to any raising of tariffs and imposition of structural barriers to its trade with the South because 25% of all its goods exports go south of the border. [...] The creation of a hard border would, in the minds of many people in both parts of Ireland, conjure up memories of the Troubles and severely damage and depress trade. Basic travel would be disrupted with thousands of civilians being checked when travelling between jurisdictions on a daily basis. There is also concern that the erection of manned, visible security posts along the border would be targeted by dissident Republicans. Policing a border is expensive, requiring cooperation from both sides. Dublin is reluctant to invest in border infrastructure for what it regards as a political disaster not of its making. [...] Ireland wants to avoid a hard border. While the UK government has agreed to this in principle, Ireland is seeking concrete details on how this can be achieved. Ireland’s first preference is for the UK to remain in the single market and customs union – but as the UK government has ruled out this option, Ireland is seeking clarity on alternative proposals. It is concerned about the impact that a potential border would have on the Northern Ireland peace process, cross-border cooperation, daily border crossings and trade.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2017-12-04): While the creation of the common travel area in 1923 allowed movement of peoples, over time the border would become a customs and security control that took on social, cultural and political significance. The decision by the then Irish Free State in the early 1930s to industrialise behind a tariff wall served to deepen the economic divide. [...] There have also been increases in tourism, investment and travel. Around 30,000 people cross the border daily for work purposes and approximately 177,000 lorries and 250,000 vans cross each month. Trade is now valued at around £3 billion a year. [...] For the 1.81m people in the North and the 4.78m people in the Republic, this cross-border trade is huge. Of particular importance is the agricultural processing industry with supply chains crossing the border several times before final production.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2017-11-30): The international border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is about 310 miles long with, depending on how many tracks you include, as many as 275 crossing points. [...] The other concern of course is economic. The economies of Northern Ireland and the Republic are completely interconnected. Huge amounts of goods and services cross the border every day without checks of any kind. [...] It is also estimated that at least 30,000 people cross the border every day for work. The movement of people is governed by the Common Travel Area between the UK and Ireland, which predates the EU.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2022-03-02): On 7th April 2017, Irish foreign minister Charles Flanagan stated to BBC News, "Over 30,000 people cross the Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily." [...] When we asked about the claim that 30,000 people cross the border on a daily basis, Annmarie O’Kane (Border People project manager at the Centre for Cross Border Studies) commented: "The Minister’s estimate of the level of cross-border mobility in this region may be somewhat conservative." She went on to explain that "the lack of exact statistical data and analysis on cross-border mobility is a very common problem in many EU border regions". [...] With these statistics in hand, we can begin to see the growing numbers of people crossing the Ireland-Northern Ireland border on a daily basis. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that the estimate of 30,000 people crossing the border every day for work is accurate.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2018-11-29): Between 23,000 and 30,000 people cross the Irish border daily to go to work, estimates the Centre for Cross Border Studies. The majority work in Northern Ireland and live in the Republic. [...] One cross border worker – who asked not to be named – reported that the loss in value of the pound was hurting his family’s income as he has watched his take-home pay fall by hundreds of euros a month after he transfers it from sterling to euros. [...] Since a peak in May 2016, a cross border worker over that 29 month period has seen around €5,747 wiped off of their income because of fluctuations in the value of the pound.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2023-04-11): New economic opportunity has also forged ties across the border. An unexpected result of the Good Friday Agreement has been the emergence of the "all-island economy", made up of businesses and industries that function as cross-border entities between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. [...] At the border itself, "cross-border trade has risen in large amounts in recent years, especially in goods", says Dr Eoin Magennis, senior economist at Ulster University. At least 30,000 people are thought to cross between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland on a daily basis, including many for work. [...] Brexit has changed the dynamic somewhat. The end of The Troubles may have laid the foundation for economic cooperation, but it was logistically possible due to the creation of the EU Single Market in 1993, which allowed the free movement of goods, capital, services and labour across the Republic of Ireland-Northern Ireland border.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2022-05-19): As Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another country, she said, "what is happening here is completely unique". Some people crossed the border – which is unmarked except for signs switching from miles to kilometres – accidentally, aiming for Dundalk in the Republic, but ending up in Newry. [...] Elderly Ukrainians who have family in Northern Ireland were waiting in unsuitable homes in the Republic while their visas were processed. Eventually, they also crossed the border "out of sheer frustration", Henry said.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2024-05-04): For longer than a year, gardai have been grappling with the challenge of managing migrant flows across the border from Northern Ireland. In an intricate dance of enforcement and political diplomacy, they have been running "shadow operations" in the region, trying to make their presence felt while remaining invisible. It is proving an impossible task. Each week, when time and manpower permit, detectives from the Garda National Immigration Bureau travel from the capital to Louth, where they set up checkpoints on the M1 to stop cars, minibuses and coaches that might be transporting
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2017-08-08): The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is currently more or less invisible. There are no border controls meaning goods and people move freely to and from the neighbouring countries. [...] This is deeply important to the UK economy. A House of Lords report published in December said that €60 billion is traded between the UK and Ireland each year, and an estimated 30,000 people cross the Irish border every day. A hard border would put this at risk. [...] How this would be managed is unclear, as any kind of open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland would mean that the UK would still have an open border with the EU, making stopping free movement impossible.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2018-12-10): More recently, in 2007, the two countries came up with plans for reintroducing border controls. If the plans had been successful, then it would have meant the end of the Common Travel Area between the two areas. However, the proposition raised significant outrage from all sides and eventually led to the abandonment of the proposals in 2011 and the subsequent renewal of the "de facto" agreement. That year, December 20, 2011, was the first time that the UK and Irish authorities officially agreed on the maintenance of the border. Data shows that approximately 177,000 lorries, 1,850,000 cars, and 208,000 vans cross the border every month. Additionally, about 30,000 people cross the border on a daily basis for work. [...] The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (EU) on June 23, 2016, commonly referred to as Brexit. This decision will mean that Northern Ireland is no longer part of the EU, and will, therefore, complicate the Ireland-United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) border since the free movement agreements in the EU only applies to members of the EU. However, representatives from the EU, the Irish government, and the UK government have all stated that no party wishes to have a hard border between the UK and Ireland. Aside from trade and immigration, health issues have also been raised.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2019-12-09): For most of the tens of thousands of people who pass over it every day – to buy goods, go to work, holiday, or move in search of a better life – crossing the Irish border is now a painless exercise. The only giveaway may be a road sign switching from miles to kilometres, or the ping from a mobile phone changing networks. [...] With increased checks on the Irish border seen as politically undesirable, it may be that these in-country checks increase instead. They risk turning Northern Ireland – where one in five farm workers is an EU migrant – into ‘one big border’, as one civil-rights group put it. [...] People move, and cross borders in the process. That is a fact of life, not least in Ireland with our long histories of emigration, and today, when around 30,000 people cross the ‘frictionless’ Irish border each day.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2023-11-02): Hayward, Katy, "Life and Work across the Irish Border", Annales des Mines - Réalités industrielles, n° 2020/3, Août 2020, p. 101-105. [...] The local effects of Covid-19 on the lives of people living in border counties (or border communities) will not enter the scope of this present chapter even though cross-border movements comprise daily shopping runs, visits to family members on both sides of the border, movements of students, but also daily trips back and forth for work-related reasons. [...] Achim Ahrens, John FitzGerald, Seán Lyons, "Commuting across the Irish border", Economics Letters, 2020, p. 190, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109060 consulted 4 May 2023.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2017-06-06): How many people cross the border daily? The exact number of individuals that cross between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland every day is difficult to quantify, but the figure is likely to be in the tens of thousands. The Centre for Cross Border Studies, which has offices in Armagh and Dublin, has estimated that between 23,000 and 30,000, external people cross the border daily for work.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2019-01-17): This could have significant negative consequences at a time of political stasis in NI with this lack of political leadership leaving a vacuum for increased societal division down sectarian lines and the threat of turning back the clock to a time where people do not feel they are being treated equally here. Around 30,000 people cross the border on a daily basis to go to work or study, this ability to move across the border freely would be impacted by any physical infrastructure at the border.[1] It is vital that any eventual solution or backstop avoids any hardening of the border and avoids erecting any new barriers. [...] For more on how voluntary and community organisations believe Brexit will affect them and the people across Northern Ireland they serve, read NICVA’s Brexit case studies report here. [...] Organisations providing support to people and communities can share their service information here
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
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Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2016-10-13): Anti-Brexit campaigners erected six mock customs checkpoints along the Northern Ireland and Irish Republic border on Saturday, in a protest over the possible impact to peace, jobs and the free movement of workers. Northern Ireland, a British province, will be the only land frontier between the United Kingdom and the European Union once Britain leaves and some fear that will mean a return to checks at the border where about 30,000 people cross each day for work. The frontier was marked by military checkpoints until a 1998 peace deal ended three decades of violence between Catholic nationalists seeking a united Ireland and Protestant unionists who wanted to keep Northern Ireland British. More than 3,600 died in that time.
Claim: 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily. (Charles Flanagan, 2017-04-07)
Evidence (2017-08-03): Perhaps the most discernible aspect of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland is just how indiscernible it is. With few signposts marking the end of one jurisdiction and the beginning of another, travelers going between the two rely on subtle clues indicating they’ve crossed from one country into another—the changing color of road signs, speed limits switching from kilometers (the Republic) to miles (Northern Ireland), or the more obvious shift between sightings of the Irish tricolor and the Union Jack. [...] "Now if you travel between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, it’s like driving from New York to Connecticut—you just keep going," Senator George Mitchell, the primary architect of the Good Friday Agreement, told me. "In fact, it’s hard to even know it now." [...] The challenge facing British and European negotiators is how to reconcile the U.K.’s decision to leave the EU with the bloc’s customs union and single market, without implementing a hard border. This is particularly important when it comes to trade between the EU and the U.K. and, more specifically, between Ireland and Northern Ireland. According to a December 2016 report by the U.K. House of Lords, approximately 60 billion euros are traded between the U.K. and Ireland each year, and as many as 30,000 people are estimated to commute across the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland each weekday for work. Between members of the EU, such trade is not subject to tariffs, nor are the individuals crossing the border subject to passport checks.
Claim: Only the Irish language is banned in courts in Northern Ireland. (Linda Ervine, 2018-08-03)
Evidence (2018-08-03): English is the working language of court proceedings in Northern Ireland; interpretation and translation services are provided for those who do not speak or understand English. Whether this policy is informed by the Penal Laws is currently contested.
Claim: Only the Irish language is banned in courts in Northern Ireland. (Linda Ervine, 2018-08-03)
Evidence (2024-09-09): The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022 (c. 45) is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom providing "official recognition of the status of the Irish language" in Northern Ireland, with Ulster Scots being an officially recognised minority language. [...] - repeal a 1737 ban on the use of Irish in Northern Ireland's courts;[20] [...] - ^ "The role of the Irish language in Northern Ireland's deadlock". The Economist. 12 April 2017. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
Claim: Only the Irish language is banned in courts in Northern Ireland. (Linda Ervine, 2018-08-03)
Evidence (2022-10-26): The legislation will give the Irish language official status, allow the use of Irish in courts and see the appointment of Irish and Ulster Scots/Ulster British commissioners. [...] Campaign group Conradh na Gaeilge welcomed the legislation's passage but called on Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris to appoint an Irish language commissioner immediately. [...] Also speaking in the Commons chamber, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said he was "sorrowful" the law was not passed at Stormont but that it was an "important step on the way to recognising that the Irish language is a key part of the identity of many people in our community".