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Dont show me this message again✕ Boris Johnson will probably hand out many more UK work visas to India (AFP via Getty) I t is sometimes reported that Boris Johnson’s preferred method of decision-making is to delay matters for so long that the decision effectively makes itself. Hence the cancellation, or rather postponement, of his trade mission to India. Having no doubt been informed by his own health advisers that India was to be placed on the “red list” for travel restrictions, the p...

Comments The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), the largest Irish American organization in the US, has written to President Joe Biden urging him to fill the vacant Northern Ireland Special Envoy position. The AOH wrote to President Biden on April 10, the 23rd anniversary of the singing of the Good Friday Agreement, to express "their concern that increasing violence and inflammatory rhetoric by senior leaders of the Unionist community are a threat to the over two decades of peace the Goo...

Northern Ireland is back as the most dangerous open wound in British political life Patrick Cockburn © Provided by The Independent On the night of 15 August 1969, a Protestant mob burst into the Catholic part of west Belfast and burned down houses in and around Bombay Street, forcing the Catholic population to flee. The pogrom had a traumatic impact on Catholics in Northern Ireland, delegitimising the authorities for tolerating or assisting the mob, and playing a key role in t...

Martin Schirdewan on the violence in Belfast over the past week: “The scenes coming from across the North of Ireland in recent days have been shocking.” “Across the political divide, working class communities have suffered the worst effects of poverty, health inequality, unemployment and conflict. These communities are most damaged by the ongoing health and economic crises. “Young people have nothing to gain by following criminal gangs down the blind alley of communal strife and sectari...

The real culprit for Northern Ireland’s current unrest is Boris Johnson’s hard-line Brexit The i 6 hrs ago Anna Behrmann © Provided by The i A member of the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service extinguishes a JCB digger which was set alight close to the Loyalist Nelson Drive Estate in the Waterside of Derry City, Co. Londonderry (Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire) Prodding fiery old blood-enemies Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness into sharing self-government in Northern I...

Dundalk TD say unity is a topic now in all corners of Ireland in his Easter Sunday speech Reporter: );  ); Dundalk TD Ruairí Ó Murchú said that unity is a topic now in all corners of Ireland and called on people to remember the 40th anniversary of the Hunger Strikes. The Sinn Féin deputy gave an online speech on Easter Sunday, ahead of the partys main online event, hosted by leader Mary Lou McDonald. He recalled all those who had died from Covid-19 across the island and said that Ireland ...

AN IRISH Language Act (ILA) must be delivered in line with the commitments of the New Decade, New Approach (NDNA) Agreement, according to a local Sinn Féin MLA. On Monday, March 22, it was claimed on BBC Radio Ulster’s Nolan Show that the DUP would block the introduction of the ILA unless the NI Protocol was scrapped. The failure to bring in legislation around the Irish language was one of the main reasons powersharing collapsed in Northern Ireland. A commitment to introduce an act in ...

» Declan Kearney Sinn Féin National Chairperson "The DUP needs to stop making bad decisions. A chaotic unravelling of the political process is not a strategy, and it is not leadership. Positive leadership, and finding new compromises and accommodations, will be the foundation stones for moving forward" - Declan Kearney ­The DUPs former leader used his ‘Newsletter’ column last week to erroneously conflate the existence of the Irish Protocol with identity and constitutional issues.  He ...

Bluster, bluff and a freewheeling approach to facts have been the hallmark of the attitude of Boris Johnson to the problems Brexit posed for Northern Ireland, writes Dick Roche. Dick Roche is a former Fianna Fáil politician. He was the minister of state for European affairs when Ireland conducted the two referendums on the Treaty of Lisbon of the European Union, in 2008 and 2009. In 1691 the Treaty of Limerick marked the end of the Williamite War in Ireland. Key provisions in the Treaty were b...

DUP leader Arlene Foster has said Northern Ireland people feel like they are "lesser citizens" than those in the rest of the UK as a result of the NI Protocol.