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SF MLA says changes to withdrawal deal would drive ‘coach and horses’ through Belfast Agreement.
Academics hold up Brexit as an example of the dangers of voting on an abstract concept.
'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.
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.”
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.
It emerged today that the party has placed adverts, calling for a United Ireland referendum, in a number of prominent American newspapers.
Unionists criticised for ‘incendiary’ rhetoric as dozens of officers injured in days of unrest.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"..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."
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.
Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald said suspending the Northern Ireland Protocol could endanger the entire withdrawal agreement.
Sinn Féin say they will veto a Stormont Executive move to make border checks unlawful as part of the NI Protocol.
Northern Ireland’s deputy First Minister said ‘for Edwin Poots to take any unilateral action would be unlawful’.
Students risk becoming Brexit's 'collateral damage' as tuition fee hikes and reduction in university places are considered on back of Brussels funding cut
14/01/2022
Increases in university fees of almost 60 per cent are be considered by the Department for the Economy.
The system for checks on agri-foods at Northern Ireland's sea ports is "not fit for purpose", according to an audit carried out by the European Commission.
DUP minister accused of ‘breach of international law’ with bid to halt Northern Ireland post-Brexit checks
02/02/2022
The UK Government’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis has indicated that he will not intervene after the controversial move by the devolved minister.
Disbelief and outrage across EU as UK says it won’t do anything to stop end to Brexit food checks in Northern Ireland
03/02/2022
European media responded with shock and disbelief this morning after a minister in Northern Ireland ordered to end checks on food in his country and the UK declared it won’t do anything about it.
The status of Brexit checks at Northern Ireland ports remained unclear on Thursday morning after a deadline passed for a ministerial order to halt them.