AN SDLP Assembly member has criticised the questioning of new DUP leader Edwin Poots on yesterday's Andrew Marr Show.
A majority of MLAs in the Stormont Assembly have signed a joint letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson stating their opposition to proposed legislation to amend the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Shockwaves felt both sides of Irish divide over plan to renege on withdrawal agreement.
The SNP is on the rise once again in Scotland and nationalist parties in Northern Ireland outnumber unionists for the first time in history.
Report cites leaked proposals for clearance areas 5-10 miles from border and real-time tracking of goods.
The SDLP's Claire Hanna used her maiden Commons speech to raise issues about the impact of the UK's withdrawal from the EU, telling MPs the 2016 referendum created a "problem that didn't need to exist" and which "reopens old wounds".
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.
Dogmatic obsession means that Johnson won’t lift a finger to help Northern Ireland.
Last week, the prime minister said Northern Ireland was unable to prepare fully for a no-deal Brexit because of the collapse of devolution.
Pro-Remain parties in Northern Ireland criticise ‘petty’ decision by UK government.
Opposition to the arrangements that have created trade barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK was a factor behind rioting that flared in several loyalist areas across the region in April.
Sinn Féin accuses UK government of ‘Tory petulance’ claiming its leader Mary Lou McDonald had been excluded from the talks.
Colum Eastwood: “We’re on the road to a united Ireland – and that’s going to be unstoppable”
06/03/2023
The leader of Northern Ireland’s nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party on Brexit, power-sharing and updating the Good Friday Agreement.
There were some concerns raised with SDLP councillor Rory Farrell and Sinn Féin councillor Conor Heaney laying the blame for the loss of European funding firmly on Brexit.
Refusal to nominate speaker derails legislature and raises stakes in London’s dispute with Brussels
He said the move "hugely reduces" the risk of post-Brexit divergence on product standards between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
DUP threats on Brexit protocol ‘won’t make a damn bit of difference,’ blast Northern Irish rivals
04/02/2022
Other parties in Northern Ireland’s unraveling administration say Boris Johnson doesn’t care whether power-sharing survives in Belfast.
DUP leader under fire for rejecting EU offer that would remove 80% of protocol checks.
Entirety of UK will have 'not for EU' printed on goods says Tory foreign secretary James Cleverly
16/05/2023
Goods across the entire UK will have the words ‘not for EU’ printed on their packaging as a consequence of Brexit, the foreign secretary has said.
EU warns Boris Johnson's plan to tear up agreement risks 'peace' in Ireland and will result in no-deal
07/09/2020
Prime minister told to stick to agreement, to ‘protect peace and stability on the island and integrity of the single market’
He was booed in Scotland. In Wales, a chicken submitted to his embrace, but politicians held him at arm’s length. And in Northern Ireland, there were rumblings of Irish unity — which could only come at the expense of its ties to the rest of the United Kingdom.
The Government has "systematically destroyed" trust across Ireland, according to SDLP Claire Hanna who has criticised Boris Johnson at his last Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs).