Maeve McTaggart: Simon Harris has a point about our relationship to Derry and Belfast, even if some of us don’t want to admit it

Taoiseach Simon Harris is right - we are not as connected as we should be. Photo: Collins

Maeve McTaggart

Dismissing Simon Harris’s comments that a younger generation is “more familiar” with other European cities than with Belfast or Derry means ignoring an uncomfortable truth: he has a point.

The Taoiseach made the assertion as a millennial, telling politicians from the UK and Ireland that his generation is “more familiar” with London, Berlin and Paris than cities on the same island, just north of the Border.