The Tory Brexit Secretary is reportedly working on plans with the European Union (EU), which could keep Northern Ireland locked inside the bloc, with a large “buffer zone” on the Irish border to minimize customs checks.
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster has slammed pro-Brussels campaigners like Tony Blair and John Major for “using” Northern Ireland politically, as well as those propagating “myths” about a hard border after Brexit.
The Irish Premier called for the UK to remain tied to the European Union’s (EU) Customs Union, as Theresa May prepares new Brexit proposals that she says will keep the bloc happy and the Irish border open.
Theresa May has attacked the leading Brexit-backing Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg in front of other MPs, slamming his support for a clean Brexit, outside the Customs Union with the Irish border open.
Northern Ireland is becoming less and less Protestant and is likely to have a Catholic majority within three years, according to a new analysis of demographic trends in the country.
Contents: Ireland border issue continues to confound Brexit negotiations; Despite warnings from China, Trump signs the Taiwan Travel Act
Leading Brexit-supporting Jacob Rees-Mogg has argued the European Union (EU) is manipulating the issue of the Irish border in an attempt keep the UK tied to many of its rules and regulations.
Arlene Foster, who leads the Brexit-supporting Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) which props up Theresa May’s minority government in Parliament, has slammed Remainers for using the threat of violence in Northern Ireland as a political expedient.
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.
