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Newly-appointed DUP leader Edwin Poots said that he had a "positive, frank, and useful" first meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Irish Government Buildings on Thursday night.
Jun 03, 2021
May 14, 2021: Edwin Poots (C) pictured at Stormont after being elected as the new Democratic Unionist party leader alongside new deputy leader Paula Bradley (L) and Paul Givan (R) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Getty Images
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Meeting will allow Government and Edwin Poots take stock of each other New DUP leader has been repeatedly critical of protocol since replacing Arlene Foster
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Dublin gets its first encounter with the new DUP leader this evening, when Edwin Poots travels south for his first meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin since he ousted Arlene Foster a month ago.
It’s not exactly the Irish Government’s first look at Mr Poots; he has been a capable and efficient operator of the North-South institutions during his time as a Stormont Minister.
That context, however, has been thrown overboard by Brexit and the discontent it has created, specifically by the application of the Northern Ireland protocol which has caused significant anger amongst unionists and loyalists in the North.