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Anton Savage: What a pensioner and a drug dealer taught me about the referendum result

Rather than trying to guess the electorate’s motivations, we should focus on understand the subtleties and nuance at play in their voting choices

Anton Savage: It’s easy to assume that a pensioner on a free travel jaunt to Cork would be egregiously offended at the idea of selling cannabis, and this one might have been

An overheard conversation between a pensioner and drug dealer reminded me that we must stop thinking of ourselves as being the same as the UK and the US. We may share a language, we may share huge amounts of culture, sport, arts and entertainment. But we are not the same, though in recent years we have lulled ourselves into thinking we are.

We hold conflicting ideas in our minds and hearts in a way that ...