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Loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland say they are “withdrawing support” from the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that brought an end to “The Troubles” – a 30-year conflict that left over 3,500 people dead.

Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary groups have told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson they are temporarily withdrawing support for the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement due to concerns over the United Kingdom’s Brexit deal with the European Union. While the groups pledged “peaceful and democratic” opposition to the deal, such a stark warning increases the pressure on Johnson, his Irish counterpart Micheal Martin and the EU over Brexit. The 1998 peace accord, also known as the Belfast ...

In a letter citing Brexit as their reason, groups pledge ‘peaceful and democratic’ opposition to the deal

TIRELESS: Lisa’s sister Joanne alongside Detective Superintendent Jason Murphy at a search in 2019 Filming the documentary begins today, a poignant anniversary date which is emotionally difficult for the Dorrians but one they approach with courage. "The programme is due to go out next year so this will be the only opportunity to film on Lisas anniversary," explained Joanne. "It will be hard for us, but as a family we are determined to do it." Lisas tightly-knit family will spend today visitin...

DUP has a history of dialogue with loyalist grouping Nigel Dodds, Jim Allister and the Rev Mervyn Gibson at the Ulster hall rally in December 2019. Arlene Foster was pictured with Dee Stitt, then chief executive of Charter NI THE DUPS decision to meet the Loyalist Communities Council to discuss tensions around the Northern Ireland Protocol was met with criticism and claims it was legitimising loyalist paramilitaries. The body, which was set up in 2015, represents outlawed ...

Northern Ireland is no longer governed as integral part of UK

They werent all Billy boys, but the bully boys have certainly been crawling out of the woodwork again, not that they ever really went away.

• Edwin Poots, Arlene Foster and Jim Allister » Peadar Whelan “Unionists last night erupted in fury after the EU unilaterally activated a crucial clause in the Brexit deal, in what Arlene Foster dubbed ‘an act of incredible hostility’ .” So read the opening paragraph in the front page article of the Belfast unionist daily News Letter on Saturday January 30 as news emerged that the EU threatened to invoke Article 16 of the Irish protocol and block the importation of anti- Covid-19 vac...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s declaration that the UK is prepared to invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol to ensure there is no border down the Irish Sea has reopened an unresolved element of the Brexit saga that puts unionism front and centre. DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr told Mr Johnson yesterday the protocol “has betrayed us, and has made us feel like foreigners in our own country” as his party intensified efforts to suspend the arrangement that avoids a hard border in the isla...

EUs article 16 blunder has focused minds on Northern Ireland Lisa OCarroll Brexit correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP The EU’s aborted attempt to trigger article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol could be a blessing in disguise for Northern Ireland. Its decision to pull the emergency cord on an agreement that had introduced regulatory checks on some products travelling between Britain and Northern Ireland without notifiying Dublin or Lon...