Tag: Northern Ireland

• Wednesday, May 18th 2022 - 09:26 UTC

  Changes to Northern Ireland Protocol by London could lead to a trade war, warns Brussels

  

  The European Union has announced that it will respond with all measures at its disposal if the British government pushes ahead with unilateral changes to the Brexit deal on Northern Ireland. UK has said it wants to change the legally binding treaty that it signed less than two years ago.

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• Saturday, May 14th 2022 - 19:51 UTC

  The delicate political situation in Ireland: Good Friday agreement hangs on a thread

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – Four months ago, Jonathan Powell warned that the Good Friday agreement of 1998 that ended 30 years of killing in Northern Ireland was at risk.

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• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Pro Ireland unity Sinn Fein wants to form a government this week; UK, US, Ireland call for caution

  

  Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party that wants Northern Ireland out of British rule to create a united Ireland, has won for the first time the largest number of seats in the Belfast legislature, (27 out of 90) and announced that on Monday will be going to Stormont seat of the region's assembly to form a government. Meantime the governments of UK, US and Ireland have called on all parties to agree on a new administration.

• Friday, May 6th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Possible bag of surprises for Johnson and Northern Ireland at local and regional elections

  

  People across the United Kingdom headed to the polls on Thursday for local and regional elections in a vote that will indicate the mood of the British public midway through the first full term of Boris Johnson's premiership.

• Friday, February 4th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Brexit trade protocol leads to Northern Ireland First Minister resignation

  

  Northern Ireland's First Minister Paul Givan Thursday handed in his resignation citing discrepancies regarding Brexit protocols. As a consequence of his decision, Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill also leaves her position as Deputy First Minister, due to the existing power-sharing arrangements dating back to 1998.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  Northern Ireland recalled 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when 14 Catholic marchers were killed by paratroopers

  

  Northern Ireland recalled in silence the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre when British paratroopers killed fourteen unarmed Catholic protestors in downtown Londonderry. In a poignant procession families of the victims retraced the original 1972 civil rights march through the city with crowds lining the streets in a show of respect and solidarity.

• Monday, November 8th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Second bus in two weeks torched in unionist neighborhood of Belfast

  

  Four men hijacked and set fire to a double-deck bus in Newtownabbey, Belfast, Northern Ireland. According to the police report, the driver and a small number of passengers were able to leave the bus before it was torched, with no reports of injuries, but the vehicle was a total loss.

• Wednesday, October 20th 2021 - 22:36 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth cancels Northern Ireland trip on doctors' advise

  

  British Queen Elizabeth II has called off a two-day Northern Ireland tour after being advised by her doctors to rest, Buckingham Palace announced Wednesday.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2021 - 07:55 UTC

  Northern Ireland protocol: UK/EU on collision course heading for a trade war?

  

  The question of Northern Ireland's post-Brexit trading arrangements, better known as the EU/UK Trade and Cooperation Treaty, has the United Kingdom and the European Union on a collision course.

• Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 21:26 UTC

  The long shadow of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: no celebrations on its hundredth anniversary

  

  On Monday, May 3, Northern Ireland marked its centenary under coronavirus restrictions, growing post-Brexit unrest and a leadership crisis marring the anniversary in the British-ruled province.