• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    If it wasn’t for NI being somehow behind the times compared to both England and Ireland, there would be a chunnel between them.

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      4 days ago

      I doubt it. The enormous cost of the chunnel made economic, as well as symbolic and political sense. Between ireland and UK it wouldn’t.

      Come to think about it, maybe now it should be closed

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        12 hours ago

        i’d say the largest reason it won’t happen is that ireland has a tiny population, compared to the channel tunnel linking london and france