Former Irish Times editor Conor Brady laments that the media in the Republic are ignoring Ireland's six northern counties.
He regrets that "so many of the Southern news media have also lost or reduced their interest in what goes on." He told an Armagh summer school on Friday:
If the decades of violence on this island and the decades that preceded them taught us anything about living together it should be that we need to know about each other.
If we don't know about each other we become prey to suspicion, to stereotyping, to mistrust and ultimately to hostility.
Brady, now a member of the Garda Ombudsman Commission, regretted that the entertainment and cultural listings of most of the Dublin papers do not list events in the north. "Very little seems to happen north of a line from Newry to Sligo," he said.
Those who run the media in the north and south ought to have what he called "an active vision that is not bound by the winding, twisting line on the map that we used to call the border".
Source: Irish Times
