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Calls to cast aside the Northern Ireland protocol are “completely unrealistic”, Simon Coveney has said adding it “will not happen”. Ireland, the EU and the UK have a legal obligation in an international treaty to implement the protocol, the Foreign Affairs Minister said. “The protocol is not primarily the problem here, the problem is caused by Brexit, and the kind of Brexit Britain pursued and insisted on, because there were alternatives that would have been much easier to implement. ...

Explainer: Why has a row broken out over checks between GB and Northern Ireland? There’s a lot going on. Here it is, all broken down into bite-sized pieces. By Gráinne Ní Aodha Wednesday 3 Feb 2021, 5:14 PM Feb 3rd 2021, 5:14 PM 34,073 Views 39 Comments Vehicles disembark from the P&O ferry arriving from Scotland at the port of Larne. Imag...

Louth TD says people need to have confidence in Covid vaccine rollout Reporter:  ); ‘Support and confidence’ are needed to ensure that the public has faith in the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú has said. The Sinn Féin TD was speaking after the EU pulled back from their threat to trigger Article 16 of the Irish Protocol in order to stop AstraZeneca vaccines being exported out of the EU. He said it was ‘foolhardy in the extreme’ for the EU to ‘even moot the ...

NI heads of government divided over protocol after Covid-19 vaccine row First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill have clashed over the Northern Ireland Protocol. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA) Sat, 30 Jan, 2021 - 15:55 Rebecca Black, PA Northern Ireland’s joint heads of government are divided over the Brexit protocol in the aftermath of an EU attempt to slam on the brakes over Covid-19 vaccination supply routes. First Minister Arlene Foster has urged the UK Govern...

THE EU attempted to block the transit of Covid vaccines to the UK last night after its own crisis regarding a shortage deepened. Why did the European Commission revoke Article 16?

There have been another 17 Covid-19 related deaths in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health reported. Thirteen of those deaths occurred in the 24 hours up to 10am on Saturday and four happened previously. The death toll has risen to 1,831. Another 455 new cases have been identified in testing. There have been 3,841 positive cases in the past week, down from 5,329 in the previous seven days. Hospital occupancy is at 91% with 2,773 people in beds. A total of 69 patients with Covid-19 are in ...

How Ursula von der Leyen’s vaccine supply assault backfired spectacularly A week that began with Brussels determined to force AstraZeneca to its knees ended with the European Union humiliated 30 January 2021 • 11:13pm Ursula von der Leyen during her speech to the World Economic Forum Credit: Shutterstock It was Friday evening, around 9.20pm, and on the line was the British Prime Minister. Boris Johnson was demanding to know why the EU had invoked Article 19 of the Northern Ireland Brexit pr...

EU officials attempted to reimpose controls on the border Brussels has been forced into a humiliating U-turn over attempts to trigger a clause in the Brexit deal that would have imposed border controls in Northern Ireland. The European commission had planned to create a “vaccine border” which could have seen checks at the border of Ireland and Northern Ireland to prevent shipments entering the UK. The move was seen as a bid to prevent it becoming a backdoor for jabs to be sent to the UK mai...

BBC Newsnight host Faisal Islam savaged the EUs vaccine chaos as a mess and total calamity during a furious live TV row with the Spanish Foreign Minister.

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