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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.
"..the goalposts continuously seem to change from the perspective of David Frost’s negotiation strategy and I think now that we’re seeing the goalposts shift once more."
Even the keenest Brexiteer must feel that the process has been tortuously long. / That has been, in large part, because successive British governments have refused to accept the trade-off between untrammelled sovereignty and friction-free access to the EU’s single market, a refusal that shapes today’s increasingly testy relationship.
Molotov cocktails and barricades have returned to Northern Ireland. The conflict there is 4 centuries old. But Brexit is the new reason why the situation has reached the boiling point in what had been an era of peace.
Pro-British loyalist militants in Northern Ireland said on Friday there had been a "spectacular collective failure" to understand their anger over Brexit and other issues as there was some respite in street clashes following a week of riots.
Pro-British loyalist militants in Northern Ireland said on Friday there had been a "spectacular collective failure" to understand their anger over Brexit and other issues as there was some respite in street clashes following a week of riots.
The renewed tension in Northern Ireland could have far-reaching implications for the future of the United Kingdom - and post-Brexit relations with the EU.
The disturbance in a Loyalist area of the city on Friday evening followed four successive nights of disturbances in the unionist Waterside area of Londonderry.
Unionists criticised for ‘incendiary’ rhetoric as dozens of officers injured in days of unrest.
It emerged today that the party has placed adverts, calling for a United Ireland referendum, in a number of prominent American newspapers.
Northern Ireland's Agriculture Minister Gordon Lyons does not have the authority to halt work on new permanent border control posts (BCPs), according to Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard.
Listen – Pro-Brexit politicians told to stop ‘crying salty tears’ and accept consequences of leaving EU
04/02/2021
“Those who championed Brexit and are crying salty tears now because of the consequences of Brexit need to accept that those are consequences of their decisions, their actions, and to not point the finger at others.”
'A dagger at the heart of the Union': Brexit reality for Northern Ireland will fuel Nationalist hopes of Irish unity
01/01/2021
Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill says Brexit is a gamechanger, but the DUP's Arlene Foster doesn't consider Irish unity inevitable.
Academics hold up Brexit as an example of the dangers of voting on an abstract concept.
SF MLA says changes to withdrawal deal would drive ‘coach and horses’ through Belfast Agreement.
Brexit will lead to referendum on Irish unity within five years, Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald claims
17/09/2020
The party president accused Boris Johnson of being willing to break the Good Friday Agreement in pursuit of his Brexit goals
Shockwaves felt both sides of Irish divide over plan to renege on withdrawal agreement.
HELENSBURGH, Scotland (Reuters) - James Henderson has spent most of his life fiercely opposed to Scottish independence. Now, reluctantly he is backing it.
Republican sentiment is rising over fears that Brexit will tank the economy, but Northern Ireland’s unionists won’t go quietly.
DUP MP questions Boris Johnson’s plans after producing letter about preparations.
Brexit is a “game-changer” that could trigger a referendum on Irish unification within three years, the leader of the nationalist Sinn Finn party said Saturday.
Former Sinn Féin president issues plea to backers to drum up support for poll in US.
Assembly hears of plans for customs posts at NI ports, setting the cat among the pigeons.
EU-UK deal means border posts to be created at Northern Ireland ports, says SF Minister.