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Suzanne is a protestant, her husband paul a catholic, but for them this is about business, not religion or tradition. how many rugs have you got here? just under 250,000. for paul's rug company, brexit means extra paperwork importing from great britain, but the protocol means it is easier exporting across the eu. it gives us in northern ireland an opportunity for one of the first times in 100 years to trade efficiently with the rest of europe and with the uk, and with gb, and to really benefit from our situation here which is quite unusual, and what's coming down the track here is potentially ...

The reversal of that. but for some northern irish businesses who import materials from great britain, the brexit protocol has meant a tangle of extra red tape. it makes logistics much more difficult, but companies like ours and others within the industry have said that was going to be an outcome of the deal that was negotiated. there are fears a storm is coming. the winds of brexit, the protocol and politics combining to buffet the people of this long—suffering island. mark easton, bbc news, newry. the annual extravaganza that is the eurovision grand final is upon us once again. and while uk...

But for them this is about business, not religion or tradition. how many rugs have you got here? just under 250,000. for paul's rug company, brexit means extra paperwork importing from great britain, but the protocol means it is easier exporting across the eu. it gives us in northern ireland an opportunity for one of the first times in 100 years to trade efficiently with the rest of europe and with the uk, and with gb, and to really benefit from our situation here which is quite unusual, and what's coming down the track here is potentially the reversal of that. but for some northern irish busi...

From the old irish province and counties of ulster, in the 1920s politicians drew a boundary line between the united kingdom and the new republic, a border twisted and tweaked to create a territory where british unionists would always control affairs. it was very messy. but today, a century later, and the largest political party in northern ireland supports irish nationalism. and now suddenly that boundary settlement which caused so much violence 100 years ago has been thrown up in the air, so it's notjust about economics, it's about politics and identity and unionism feels itself under threat...

Let's go live to stormont tonight, and speak to our ireland correspondent chris page. borisjohnson is to visit belfast next week. where are things heading? well, reeta, stormont has reached a new stage of stalemate, it's been known all week pretty much it was very unlikely ministers would be appointed here today, but now as well as not having a government northern ireland doesn't even have a devolved assembly. looking ahead, well, the dup leader sirjeffrey donaldson has suggested he does expect the government to move soon to address unionist concerns over the northern ireland protocol. the que...