Brexit threatens to make Irish in North ‘second-class citizens’
Oireachtas committee told hard border would lead to fears ‘we are going backwards’
A sign in Derry calling for no border in Ireland . File photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
Brexit threatens to make Irish citizens in Northern Ireland “second-class citizens” after the UK leaves the European Union, an Oireachtas committee has been told.
Concerns were raised about the effect of Brexit on human rights by a joint committee of North-South bodies set up under the 1998 Belfast Agreement and Northern Ireland-based human rights experts when they appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Wednesday.