Darran Marshall
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BBC News NI | Politics | Senior Journalist & Producer @BBCTheView | #SundayPolitics | #BBCRedLines
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19-06-2012 11:24:34
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Last night’s BBC The View challenge provided some interesting answers. Thanks to the students for taking part.
Can you do better and name all 32 counties?
Give this a go! No cheating! geoguessr.com/vgp/3150
.Simon Harris TD “may have said Derry & Belfast - but ask students if they’ve been to Clare, Galway or Donegal. I guarantee you they’ve been to Barcelona, to Paris,”
“Remember the age cohort too - very much focused on urban destinations”
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The Taoiseach said his generation are more familiar with London, Berlin & Paris than they might be with Belfast or Derry.
Has he a point?
Darran Marshall went to Dublin
Chris Donnelly Senator Emer Currie
Mark Carruthers
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Last night’s BBC The View is available on BBC iPlayer
Health crisis
Rita Devlin Niall McGonigle
When might general election be?
Nicholas Watt
Mark Carruthers
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The new Taoiseach, Simon Harris, caused a stir when he said people of his generation are more familiar with 'Berlin, Paris and London than they are with Belfast and Derry'.
Darran Marshall visited a Dublin university to see if it's true...
Mark Carruthers
'He was genuinely shocked at the low number of students coming from the north.'
Senator Emer Currie tells Mark Carruthers that Simon Harris TD made the remarks following his experience as Minister for Further and Higher Education...
'Bonfires and ballots.'
Nicholas Watt tells Mark Carruthers that a potential general election on July 11 could be problematic...
'With partition and the Troubles people didn't look north.'
Chris Donnelly tells Mark Carruthers that he understands the point made by Simon Harris TD about cross border travel...
Darran Marshall
'They're going into work these days and there are just endless obstacles to them being able to deliver the care they desperately want to do'
Niall McGonigle from The Royal College of Surgeons of England talks to Mark Carruthers about the challenges hospital staff are facing every day
#bbctheview
'Some of our members describe being a nurse... as akin to being in a domestic violence relationship'
Rita Devlin tells Mark Carruthers that nurses are being burned out by the work load they face
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'You wouldn't go on a plane without enough staff but you go into hospital with not enough staff'
RCN Northern Ireland director Rita Devlin talks to Mark Carruthers about the pressures our hospitals are under
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Taoiseach Simon Harris TD recently said “I’m of a generation where people are more familiar now with London and Berlin and Paris than they might be with Belfast or Derry.”
Chris Donnelly & Senator Emer Currie discuss
#BBCTheView ⏰ 11.10pm tonight
Kitty Holland's The Irish Times reports of the Stardust inquest hearings over the past year have been truly exceptional.
Her long read below is well worth setting some time aside for.
It’s a very hard watch … but the archive footage of Stardust & testimony in this RTÉ report by Samantha Libreri are powerful, and explain how some of the wrongs have now been put right.
Is Taoiseach Simon Harris TD right to suggest his generation is more familiar with Berlin than Belfast? 🗺️🔍
BBC News NI's The View put it to the test at Technological University Dublin - you can see the feature in full on tonight's @BBCTheView at 23:10.