Posted By: October 28, 2016
Victims campaigner Raymond McCord had taken a legal challenge to Brexit at the High Court in Belfast. Picture by Hugh Russell Irish News (Belfast). Friday, October 28, 2016 A CHALLENGE to the British Prime Minister’s power to trigger Brexit negotiations has been dismissed at Belfast High Court. The case was taken by a cross-community group of politicians and human rights campaigners […]
Posted By: October 27, 2016
SDLP leader Mr. Eastwood speaking at the UUP conference on October 22, 2016The leader of the SDLP has suggested that the UK’s pending exit from the EU has caused the “shadow of the past” to fall over the British Isles once more.Colum Eastwood, MLA for Foyle, also accused the UK Government of “amnesia or ignorance” over the effect Brexit will have on […]
Posted By: October 27, 2016
Daniel McConnell. Irish Examiner. Thursday, October 27, 2016No agreement exists with the British government about the use of Irish ports as border control points, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.British ministers including secretary of state for Northern Ireland James Brokenshire had claimed London and Dublin were working to strengthen Ireland’s external borders to combat illegal migration into the UK after Brexit.He said such a “high […]
Posted By: October 27, 2016
Belfast Telegraph. Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Thousands of people travel back and forth over the Irish border for work every day The Government’s dual ambition to maintain the common travel area between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and to control the UK’s borders has been condemned as “contradictory nonsense” by a Labour MP.Thousands of people travel back and forth […]
Posted By: October 26, 2016
Amanda Ferguson . Reuters,| Belfast, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Northern Ireland’s High Court will rule on Friday on a challenge against British plans to leave the European Union without a vote in parliament, the first judgment in legal cases that are being closely watched by politicians and markets. A cross-party group of politicians, including members of the British province’s largest Irish nationalist parties, brought the challenge earlier […]