‘The game is up’: Former taoiseach strongly criticises British government’s negotiating stance. / Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said that the “game is up” for British negotiators irrespective of whether or not Article 16 is triggered.
Meeks, Keating, Blumenauer and Boyle Issue Statement on UK’s Threat to Invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol
09/11/2021
“The Northern Ireland Protocol was a significant achievement during the volatile Brexit process, and its full implementation is critical for ensuring Brexit doesn’t undermine decades of progress toward peace on the island of Ireland. ..."
It is the second double-decker bus to be torched in the past week, amid protests against the Northern Ireland protocol.
The Progressive Unionist Party, which is politically aligned to the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force, has said there is “no basis” for unionists to continue to support the Good Friday Agreement peace accord.
The next generation will reject Brexit and the way it diminished our country – Europe will welcome us back
03/11/2021
Across the world, there is incomprehension at what we have done to ourselves.
Wales Governance Centre Annual Lecture - 2021 - Brigid Laffan:
This lecture analyses how Ireland responded to Brexit and the manner in which Brexit disturbed the delicate political and institutional balances that were central to the Good Friday Agreement.
Alexandra Hall Hall says UK ‘damagingly’ downplayed impact on NI peace process.
International Fund for Ireland chairman Paddy Harte said it is impossible to rule out future disorder.
The head of a major peace fund in the north has warned paramilitary groups on both sides of the divide there are gaining support from vulnerable communities who feel they have been let down by the peace process. / "Brexit has brought up issues of culture and identity, and raised old sores that had gone well into the background."
British minister 'claimed no-deal Brexit would only hit a few Irish farmers with turnips in their trucks'
28/10/2021
A FORMER British diplomat said one government minister dismissed the risk of a no-deal Brexit on Irish firms as only affecting "a few farmers with turnips in the back of their trucks".
Alexandra Hall Hall says UK ‘damagingly’ downplayed impact on NI peace process.
The EU's former chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, says changes the UK wants to make to the Northern Ireland protocol have caused him to lose trust because what is at stake is not goods or trade but peace.
Frost’s latest remarks have been slammed as “a very strange way to make friends and build partnerships”.
Brexit inflames North’s identity politics
27/06/2021
Economic advantages of NI’s new trading arrangement overlooked by rejectionist rhetoric.
Former MP says problem is not sausages but ‘porkies’ from Downing Street.
A former Canadian general played a key role in creating the Good Friday accord.
The Brexiteer admitted that Northern Ireland had been "thrown under the bus".
US President Joe Biden will bring a grave Brexit warning to his first meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Prevent a row with the European Union from imperilling the delicate peace in Northern Ireland, write Steve Holland and Guy Faulconbridge.
Emmanuel Macron’s attack on UK’s failure to implement Brexit deal wrecks claims of G7 ‘harmony’
10/06/2021
Emmanuel Macron’s attack on UK’s failure to implement Brexit deal wrecks claims of G7 ‘harmony’.
In a move rarely seen between allies, Washington issued London with a demarche: a formal diplomatic reprimand usually reserved for adversaries.
JOE Biden will tell Boris Johnson not to let the row over Northern Ireland's Brexit arrangements put the Good Friday Agreement at risk when the pair meet today.
In an extraordinary diplomatic rebuke a senior US diplomat accused the UK's Brexit Minister of 'inflaming tensions' over Northern Ireland in a trade row.
Boris Johnson risks G7 becoming damage limitation exercise after Joe Biden Northern Ireland rebuke
10/06/2021
Boris Johnson is scrambling to avoid his big G7 Summit from sliding into a damage limitation exercise.
US president Joe Biden’s extraordinary intervention on Northern Ireland is ‘significant’ - Taoiseach Micheál Martin
10/06/2021
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the intervention from US President Joe Biden on the row over Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit position was “significant”. / President Biden ordered US officials to issue Boris Johnson with an extraordinary diplomatic rebuke for imperilling the Northern Ireland peace process over Brexit.
US president Joe Biden can “see through the spin and fog” from London on the Northern Ireland protocol and will urge the British government to implement the deal it agreed, Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said on Wednesday.