“We both share the same rivers, the same mountains, and some of the same problems, and therefore I think it is reasonable that the two premiers should meet and discuss matters of mutual interest, and that is actually what we did today.”
—Terence O’Neill, as Northern Ireland Prime Minister, in television interview after meeting Taoiseach, Sean Lemass, at Stormont, Belfast, 14/1/1965. Jonathan Bardon, Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1983, p. 273.
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