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Brexit and Borders: The Northern Ireland Protocol

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 4:30–6:00 PM

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Join Irish journalist and author Tony Connelly for a lecture and discussion on “Brexit and Borders: The Northern Ireland Protocol." Connelly is the Europe editor for RTÉ News and Current Affairs. This event is sponsored by the Center for Freedom and Western Civilization’s Forum on Economic Freedom. Register here to attend virtually via Zoom.Tony Connelly is Europe Editor for RTÉ, Ireland’s public broadcaster, and has been reporting periodically from Ukraine since 2004, and more recently on the Russian invasion. He has also reported on conflicts in the Middle East, including the current conflict in Gaza, Africa, the Caucuses and the Balkans and the Middle East. He has reported extensively on Brexit, and has been covering EU and European affairs from Brussels since 2001.Connelly’s documentary “Hidden History,” on his grandfather and the Irish War of Independence, was broadcast on RTE in June, 2023. He is the recipient of two ESB National Media awards, a European Journalism Award and a New York Festivals radio award for his documentary on the Ukrainian soccer team Shaktar Donetsk. He has received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the UCD Smurfit Graduate School journalism awards, and an Irish Law Society Justice Media Award for his coverage of the Brexit negotiations.Connelly is the author of Brexit and Ireland, nominated Irish non-fiction book of the year in 2018, and Don’t Mention the Wars: A Journey Through European Stereotypes, published in 2014.

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