BRUSSELS (AP) — The Northern Ireland party that props up the government of British Prime Minister Theresa May insists that European Union proposals to avoid a hard border in Ireland after Brexit are “not acceptable.”
Brussels bureaucrats are set to reject the Prime Minister’s proposals for the Irish border and a unique but ‘softer’ form of Brexit, offering only a trade deal such as that agreed with Canada.
European Council President Donald Tusk has doubled down on demands that Northern Ireland remains tied to the European Union’s (EU) rules after Brexit, shortly before a critical meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May.
Tony Blair has called on the EU to help Remain loyalists keep Britain inside the bloc, and claimed Brexit could lead to civil war.
The UK will refuse to pay the agreed so-called Brexit ‘divorce bill’ unless the European Union (EU) backs down on its attempt to force Northern Ireland to stay inside the bloc’s Customs Union.
LONDON (AFP) – Mary Lou McDonald will on Saturday replace Gerry Adams as the president of Sinn Fein following his decision to step down after 34 years as the figurehead of the Irish republican movement.
Northern Ireland will remain locked in the European Union’s (EU) Single Market and Customs Union, a hardline draft withdrawal agreement, seen by British negotiators, has demanded.
A deal has been struck between the UK and the EU on phase one of the Brexit negotiations, which hinged on the status of EU citizens in the UK, the bloc’s financial claims on Britain, and the border between Ulster and the Republic of Ireland.
The Democratic Unionist Party’s Nigel Dodds affirmed that the United Kingdom was right to vote to leave the European Union after the party rejected a draft proposal which would leave Northern Ireland tethered to the bloc.
Rumours are swirling that Theresa May is willing to effectively leave Northern Ireland within the EU’s Customs Union and Single Market to meet its demands on Britain’s border with the Irish Republic.
British police have been subjected to widespread derision after appearing to suggest that bumping into someone “under the mistletoe” without consent is rape.
Contents: The issue of Ireland’s border threatens to collapse EU-UK Brexit negotiations; Ireland’s government faces vote of no confidence on Wednesday
Contents: European Union Brexit negotiator gives Britain a two-week ultimatum; The most intractable Brexit problem: Northern Ireland; Can the Brexit decision be reversed? The author of the rule says it can.
Contents: Britain’s Labor party makes dramatic U-turn on Brexit policy proposals; UK’s Tory government struggles with Brexit policy positions; Ireland calls Theresa May’s Irish border proposal ‘delusional’
The European Commission’s chief Brexit negotiator has offered Northern Ireland the possibility of retaining elements European Union (EU) membership after Brexit.
Freedom of movement will continue after Brexit, with migrants able to fly straight from Europe without a visa and no immigration controls along Irish border, new government plans have revealed.
Britain will seek to retain an open land border with the Republic of Ireland with no border posts, security, or even CCTV cameras after Brexit, even though this could potentially leave a totally unguarded back door to the Free Movement European Union area.
LONDON (AP) — Britain says there must be no border posts between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic after Brexit.
LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s prime minister says it is “only a matter of time” before same-sex marriage is legalized in Northern Ireland — the only part of the United Kingdom where it still is banned.
LONDON (AP) — The leaders of Northern Ireland’s main political parties said Tuesday that they have not reached a deal to restore the collapsed Catholic-Protestant power-sharing government — and there is unlikely to be agreement before the fall.
The Democratic Unionist Party’s leader in Westminster, Nigel Dodds, has said their ‘confidence and supply’ deal with Theresa May is not a bribe, and will strengthen the whole country.
The much-mooted deal between Theresa May’s Conservative Party and Arlene Foster’s Democratic Unionist Party has been signed at Downing Street.
Theresa May’s Conservative Party and Arlene Foster’s Democratic Unionist Party have signed a deal which will see the Northern Irish party support the government on Brexit legislation.
The Queen’s speech, which lays out the governing party’s legislative programme, has been postponed until June 21st, with the announcement of an agreement between the Conservative and the Democratic Unionists delayed by the Grenfell Tower fire. This has left Sinn Féin time to seek meetings with the Labour Party in Westminster.
The prospect of a pact between the Tory Government and Ulster’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has been welcomed as “positive” news for Jewish people and Israel by community leaders.
Speaking to Sky News Sunday morning Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn failed six times to condemn the IRA over their bombing campaign in the 1980s and 1990s. In a wide ranging interview with Sky News’s Sophie Ridge, Corbyn was asked repeatedly to
Permitting Hamas to run in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections without the terrorist organization disarming first was “a mistake,” former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged this week.
The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator has warned Irish politicians that Britain’s departure from the bloc “will have consequences” in an address to their parliament.
LONDON (AP) – A commission searching for one of the so-called “disappeared” victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland says it has discovered human remains in a French forest. The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains has been
EU leaders will discuss at a summit this weekend whether to back automatic membership for Northern Ireland after Brexit if it ever reunifies with Ireland, sources said on Friday.
Contents: Brexit: The die is cast, and the EU is playing hardball; Britain proposes ‘The Great Repeal Bill’; Scotland demands a new referendum on leaving the EU; Northern Ireland considers reuniting with the Republic of Ireland
DUBLIN (AP) — Britain says Northern Ireland is at dire risk of losing self-government if rival parties fail within weeks to resolve key differences.
DUBLIN (AP) — The British government faces a deadline on whether to extend negotiations on Northern Ireland’s political future or renew direct control from London.
Senior officers decided not to pursue Martin McGuinness over his alleged role in a terrorist attack that killed nine people because it would be too “politically sensitive”, it has been claimed.
According to Lord Tebbit, “the world is a sweeter and cleaner place” thanks to the death of ex-IRA terrorist Martin McGuinness, “a coward who never atoned for his crimes”.
Northern Ireland’s former deputy first minister and one-time IRA commander Martin McGuinness has died aged 66, his Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein said on Tuesday.
DUBLIN (AP) – The senior Protestant politician in Northern Ireland has left the door open to stepping aside as part of negotiations to revive the British territory’s unity government with Catholics. Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster said Sunday her
DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland’s snap election has left the rival extremes of politics virtually neck and neck for the first time — and facing a bruising battle to put their Catholic-Protestant government back together again in an increasingly polarized landscape.
DUBLIN (AP) — Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party, has fallen just short of becoming the largest party in elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly.
DUBLIN (AP) — The Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party is seeking gains in an early election that could shape the fate of Catholic-Protestant cooperation in Northern Ireland.
DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland’s voters are deciding who should lead them, an election overshadowed by acrimony between the dominant Irish Catholic and British Protestant parties. Thursday’s elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly will determine which parties on each side
