Tag: Northern Ireland

• 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.

• Tuesday, March 16th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  EU launches legal action against Britain over Northern Ireland and alleged Brexit accord breach

  

  The European Union launched legal action against Britain on Monday for unilaterally changing trading arrangements for Northern Ireland that Brussels says breach the Brexit divorce deal agreed with London last year.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party will take legal action against Brexit

  

  Members of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) are set to take part in legal action challenging part of Brexit, the party said on Sunday. DUP opposes the Northern Ireland protocol, which covers post-Brexit trade between Britain and Northern Ireland, because it creates barriers between the British region and the rest of the UK and has caused disruptions.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:33 UTC

  UK/EU talks to overcome post Brexit frictions in Northern Ireland; Dublin pleads for calm

  

  Britain and the EU vowed on Thursday to resolve post-Brexit trade frictions over the Northern Ireland border in the wake of the UK's departure from the bloc. Northern Ireland was barely mentioned in the parliamentary debates prior to the 2016 Brexit referendum.

• Wednesday, February 3rd 2021 - 06:03 UTC

  The Northern Ireland Protocol, fails Unionists' testing

  

  The two Northern Irish ports of Larne and Belfast temporarily suspended border checks and withdrew staff on Tuesday amid safety fears. Officials pulled a dozen staff members from duty at Larne Port after an “upsurge in sinister and menacing behavior,” Mid and East Antrim Borough Council said.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  EU/UK reach post-Brexit deal on Northern Ireland; Johnson meets EC head in Brussels

  

  The European Union and UK have reached an unofficial agreement on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland and its land border to the EU. The deal is not tied to last-gasp trade talks, but could help grease the wheels. The co-chairs of the EU-UK joint committee on Tuesday announced an “agreement in principle” pertaining in large part to the Irish border issue.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Biden does not want an Ireland/UK guarded border; insists on Good Friday peace deal

  

  U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said on Tuesday he did not want to see a guarded border between Ireland and the United Kingdom, adding that he had previously discussed the matter with the British and Irish prime ministers and other European leaders.