The Rt Rev John McDowell, the bishop of Clogher, a diocese that cuts across the Irish border, has written in the Daily Telegraph to ask Boris Johnson to consider his legacy when it comes to the Irish border.
The bishop, whose diocese includes County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland and County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, wrote an open letter to Mr Johnson, saying: “I am writing as someone who has always recognised the almost impossible difficulties and stresses placed on those who have a vocation to public life, particularly politicians…But sometimes an individual should say things which might otherwise go unheard in the cacophony of other, better-known voices; the alternative would be to simply wither in the silence of exhaustion.”
Rt Rev John McDowell explained that his job is to care for people on both sides of the border and that “although our priorities and the methods we use to achieve them may be different, I think it is fair to say that our goals overlap; nowhere more so than in the current difficulties surrounding brexit and the Border, which (very worryingly) give every impression of escalating towards a crisis. For those of us old enough to have lived through longest civil conflict in post-War Europe, the very word ‘escalation’ is resonant with overtones of lived horror and real tragedy. As such, it is reassuring that those in power on both…
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