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Submitting... It reads: “If the application of this Protocol leads to serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties that are liable to persist, or to diversion of trade, the Union or the United Kingdom may unilaterally take appropriate safeguard measures. “Such safeguard measures shall be restricted with regard to their scope and duration to what is strictly necessary in order to remedy the situation. “Priority shall be given to such measures as will least disturb the functioning of this Protocol. “If a safeguard measure taken by the Union or the United Kingdom, as the case...

Submitting... Letter to the editor Mr Baxter erroneously states as fact that I and a number of business leaders were obsessed with the land border, claiming “All they talked about was we need to keep the Irish border open, otherwise the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) will be broken and it could lead to trouble, if we were to have customs posts set up between Northern Ireland and the Republic.” It is a matter of record that I warned of the potential for a border in the Irish Sea, with a return to the bad old days of suspicion over the movement of goods and people from Britain’s ports and ai...

The policing of republican funerals is back in the news after that of Eamonn McCourt in Londonderry on Monday. McCourt had been an a member of the IRA and had been imprisoned after being injured in a gun battle between the IRA and the Army in 1981.

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SF issues press release about farm conditions in India amid clamour for funeral answers Adam Kula © Image of Indian farmers protesting in Delhi, from BBC bulletin, 26-01-21 It is under pressure to reveal which councillors and which MLAs (if any) were present for the send-off, which has generated a row because of the numbers of people involved in the cortege. Funeral numbers are supposed to be limited to 25, and social distancing of two metres (six feet) is meant to be strictly observed. The PSNI has said it is looking into “likely” breaches of the coronavirus rules at th...