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‘The Prime Minister has been clear and consistent’, says Minister of State for Northern Ireland
We spoke to the Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Conor Burns, and began by asking him whether Boris Johnson or Dominic Cummings are telling the truth.
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‘Huge blackspots’ in knowledge of Northern Ireland’s history, says Derry Girls actress
She is best known for her starring role in the hit comedy Derry Girls, but now Siobhán McSweeney, who plays Headteacher Sister Michael in the show, is turning her hand to the real life beauty to be found in Northern Ireland.
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Revisited: Northern Ireland two-part special
What would it mean to be a Unionist, if the Union no longer exists?
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Northern Ireland protocol ‘can’t be renegotiated’, says Irish minister
The government is demanding “significant changes” to the Northern Ireland Protocol, the deal that Boris Johnson signed with the EU in 2019 to govern trade in Northern Ireland after Brexit.
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Brexit: UK tells EU ‘significant change’ to Northern Ireland Protocol needed to eliminate checks
The government is demanding “significant changes” to the Northern Ireland Protocol, the deal that Boris Johnson signed with the EU in 2019 to govern trade in Northern Ireland after Brexit.
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‘A hellishly difficult problem’ to solve prosecutions relating to the Troubles, says negotiator in Northern Ireland peace process
Jonathan Powell was chief of staff to Tony Blair in Downing Street and was intimately involved in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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Government facing opposition to plan to end Northern Ireland Troubles prosecutions
It’s estimated 3,500 people were killed in the decades of conflict in Northern Ireland that came to be known as the Troubles. The question of how to give their families justice has been a matter of tension and debate ever since.
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Calls for calm heeded as loyalist bonfires are lit in Northern Ireland
They were the fires said to have lit the way for the Protestant King William of Orange in his battle against the Catholics more than three centuries ago.
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Northern Ireland deputy First Minister calls for calm, amid tensions over loyalist bonfires
Northern Ireland’s deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill has appealed for calm, amid tensions over loyalist bonfires marking the eve of the Twelfth of July parades.
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Brexit: UK and EU agree to postpone ban on chilled meats entering UK from Northern Ireland
It was meant to be a day of post-Brexit deadlines but instead the sausage wars have lost their sizzle as the EU and UK agree to postpone a ban on chilled meats entering the UK from Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland’s new DUP leader Edwin Poots faces backlash over first minister nomination
After only three weeks in the job, the new leader of the DUP, Edwin Poots is facing a challenge from within his own party. A sizeable number of DUP members of the Stormont assembly and some of its MPs reacted with fury after he struck a deal over the status of the Irish language in…
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Northern Ireland, Part 2: Will Brexit lead to a United Ireland?
As some say the call for a border poll on a United Ireland is growing, what would it take to get to that point, and what would it mean to be a Unionist, if the Union no longer exists?
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Northern Ireland, Part 1: A return to the “bad old days”?
Paraic O’Brien explores how even though Northern Ireland’s youth weren’t around during the Troubles, the stories they are told strengthen the bonds of Unionism today.
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100 years on: where do the allegiances of Northern Ireland’s young Catholics lie?
If you live in Belfast, do you look to London, or do you look to Dublin? Or maybe you look to both, or neither.
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Northern Ireland wildfires which damaged environment ‘started deliberately’
The large wildfire which raged through the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland over the weekend, causing “unimaginable” damage to the environment, was started deliberately, according to officials.