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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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Donaldson becomes DUP leader after Poots’ resignation
In Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party is getting its third leader in two months.
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DUP in disarray as Edwin Poots quits after 21 days as leader
The Democratic Unionist Party is looking for a new leader again, as Edwin Poots stepped down after just 21 days in the job.
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United Ireland not a ‘terrifying prospect’ to many loyalists says Irish commentator
We spoke to the Belfast-based author and commentator, Susan McKay, about the latest political developments in 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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Boris Johnson on Brexit, N Ireland, Biden and Trump
Our Political Editor Gary Gibbon speaks to Boris Johnson from Cornwall, where the Prime Minister is hosting the first G7 summit – representing most of the world’s biggest economies – since the Covid pandemic with the global economic recovery and climate crisis high on the agenda.
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‘The UK has not moved as fast as the European Commission would’ve wished’: Former senior civil servant on UK-EU row
Philip Rycroft was permanent secretary for the Department for Exiting the EU from 2017 until 2019.
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Post-Brexit politics ‘poisoning relationships on the streets’ of N Ireland, says manufacturing chief exec
Stephen Kelly is chief executive of Manufacturing Northern Ireland. He shared a video in 2019 when Boris Johnson assured a group of Northern Ireland Conservatives that everything would work in NI post-Brexit.
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EU’s ‘patience very thin’ after no agreement in ‘sausage war’ talks with UK
The EU and the UK remain at loggerheads over the UK government’s threat to delay checks on chilled meats being imported from the mainland to Northern Ireland. The EU says any grace period allowed while the post-Brexit system bedded in is now over, and it’s time to stick to the rules of the Brexit deal.…
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Boris Johnson ‘would be very wise’ to offer Ballymurphy apology says former head of British Army
We spoke to General Sir Richard Dannatt, who was head of the Army from 2006-2009 about the prospect of an amnesty for soldiers and civilians accused of historical crimes in Northern Ireland, and whether it’s time for the UK government to apologise for the Ballymurphy massacre, following today’s inquest findings.
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‘Today was a landmark, a day for truth and justice’ – Ballymurphy families’ campaign
We spoke to John Teggart, of the Ballymurphy families’ campaign for truth and justice, and Mickey McKinney, from the Bloody Sunday families’ campaign in Derry.
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Ballymurphy: 10 people shot dead were innocent, inquest finds
It’s just a few months short of half a century on from three bloody days when up to 40 people were shot by paratroopers on a West Belfast estate, 10 of them fatally.
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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.