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Let’s talk about union but without unionists

Posted By: October 01, 2016

Patrick Murphy. Irish News.(Belfast). Saturday, October 1, 2016Oh good, we are going to have an all-Ireland conversation. Enda Kenny announced it in the Dáil this week, so it must be a good idea. No, I do not know what an all-Ireland conversation is (although I have had conversations about this evening’s all-Ireland) but apparently it has to do with the UK’s […]

May: There should be no ‘return to the “borders of the past”

Posted By: October 01, 2016

Claire Simpson. Irish News (Belfast).Saturday, October 1, 2016THERE should be no return “to the borders of the past” post-Brexit, British prime minister Theresa May has said.The fate of the Irish border has been plunged into uncertainty since June’s referendum result, with fears for the peace process and economy. Although the UK voted to leave the European Union, 56 percent of people in […]

Twaddell cul-de-sac a two-way street again

Posted By: September 29, 2016

Allison Morris. Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, September 29, 2016In 2013  a plethora of reporters and I  stood for the guts of ten hours at a riot in Woodvale in north Belfast. Ross Kemp was there filming which is never a good sign.While the football tops of those throwing the stones, bottles, bolts and anything else that came to hand,  had changed from the […]

Border lines blurred by new technology

Posted By: September 29, 2016

Newton Emerson.Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, September 29, 2016The British government has discussed using drones to patrol a post-Brexit Irish border, in order to comply with the EU customs union.This is according to former Labour leader Ed Miliband, who denounced the idea as “ridiculous”. However, it fits in with proposals already made by the Irish government. Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said customs posts need […]

All-island Brexit approach essential

Posted By: September 28, 2016

“… even if Arlene Foster can’t take her blinkers off and finally admit she made an idiotic mistake advocating Brexit. …She can remain in denial as long as she likes but The North’s economic fate after Brexit is inextricably linked with The South’s. Time for her to leave her unionist time warp.” Brian Feeney. Irish News.(Belfast). Wednesday, September 28, […]

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