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Press release Taoiseach’s address at Brookings Institution Ireland: Shaping the Future at Home and in the World. 15 March 2021   Thank you for your welcome John (Allen). I am very pleased to join you and the Brookings Institution for today’s event and I look forward to my conversation with Tom (Wright). For more than a year, humanity has together fought a pandemic, the likes of which none of us has seen in our lifetimes. It has had profound impact wherev...

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An ex-chief adviser to David Trimble has said the former First Minister was wrong to criticise the decision by loyalist paramilitaries to withdraw support for the Good Friday Agreement. Mr Trimble, one of the architects of the peace deal, said the move by the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) in protest at the Irish Sea border should be "deplored". The LCC represents the views of terror groups the UVF, UDA and Red Hand Commando. But David McNarry, Lord Trimbles special adviser at the time of ...

Turning his attention to the current occupant of Number Ten, Mr Habib added: “Boris Johnson has not been any better. “He did not challenge the false narrative, reaffirmed it and put a border down the Irish Sea, leaving Northern Ireland behind. “Even though writing in the Telegraph on September 12 last year he confessed he had agreed the Protocol with one arm tied behind his back and that it threatened the fabric of the country, he nevertheless implemented it.” Mr Habib said he first cal...

Unionists aim to break Northern Ireland protocol of Brexit agreement Northern Ireland’s right-wing unionist parties and hardline Tory Brexiteers, with the support of loyalist paramilitary groups, are intent on breaking the Northern Ireland Protocol component of Britain’s European Union (EU) withdrawal agreement. The protocol is a ramshackle and fragile compromise devised to avoid any return to a “hard border” between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It became necessary beca...

» Peadar Whelan Within 24 hours of the British Government’s unilateral move to set aside the so-called Northern Ireland protocol, and break internationally binding agreements made with the EU, Unionist death squads have threatened to withdraw support for the Good Friday Agreement, accusing the European Union of undermining their “rights under the agreement” through implementing the protocol. The British government move, announced on Wednesday 3 March, to unilaterally extend the grace per...

February 2021 Criminal groups abducted hundreds in north west, while ethnic and regional tensions ran high in south amid farmer-herder conflict; meanwhile, tensions rose in south east between govt and Biafra secessionists. Criminal groups in Feb reportedly killed at least 112 and kidnapped over 450 people, mostly in Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto and Zamfara states (north west), but also in Niger state (Middle Belt). Notably, armed group 17 Feb abducted 42 students and school personnel in Niger state,...

NI protocol row: Irish Government is a bunch of chancers, DUP MP claims 00:00:00 / 00:00:00       He said: "When it comes to trust, Simon Coveney ought to look at his own record and how people in Northern Ireland view him. "On one hand, he talks about maintaining the peace in Northern Ireland and protecting the Good Friday Agreement... while at the same time, as David Trimble pointed out a few weeks ago, he was one of the instigators in ripping up the Good Friday Agreement. "That is what ha...

The first 6 paragraphs of the Belfast Agreement are a declaration of support from its signatories. Paragraph 5 is very clear where it states: