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Dundalk TD say unity is 'a topic now in all corners of Ireland' in his Easter Sunday speech Reporter: ');  '); Dundalk TD Ruairí Ó Murchú said that unity is 'a topic now in all corners of Ireland' and called on people to remember the 40th anniversary of the Hunger Strikes. The Sinn Féin deputy gave an online speech on Easter Sunday, ahead of the party's main online event, hosted by leader Mary Lou McDonald. He recalled all those who had died from Covid-19 across the island and said that Ireland was 'now entering a more hopeful phase' because of vaccine roll-out.

AN IRISH Language Act (ILA) must be delivered in line with the commitments of the New Decade, New Approach (NDNA) Agreement, according to a local Sinn Féin MLA. On Monday, March 22, it was claimed on BBC Radio Ulster’s Nolan Show that the DUP would block the introduction of the ILA unless the NI Protocol was scrapped. The failure to bring in legislation around the Irish language was one of the main reasons powersharing collapsed in Northern Ireland. A commitment to introduce an act in the NDNA was central to the restoration of powersharing. Education Minister Peter Weir dismissed t...

» Declan Kearney Sinn Féin National Chairperson "The DUP needs to stop making bad decisions. A chaotic unravelling of the political process is not a strategy, and it is not leadership. Positive leadership, and finding new compromises and accommodations, will be the foundation stones for moving forward" - Declan Kearney ­The DUP's former leader used his ‘Newsletter’ column last week to erroneously conflate the existence of the Irish Protocol with identity and constitutional issues.  He omitted, like others, to acknowledge that having cheer led for a hard Brexit, the Protocol is in fa...

Bluster, bluff and a freewheeling approach to facts have been the hallmark of the attitude of Boris Johnson to the problems Brexit posed for Northern Ireland, writes Dick Roche. Dick Roche is a former Fianna Fáil politician. He was the minister of state for European affairs when Ireland conducted the two referendums on the Treaty of Lisbon of the European Union, in 2008 and 2009. In 1691 the Treaty of Limerick marked the end of the Williamite War in Ireland. Key provisions in the Treaty were broken “before the ink was dry”.  The Irish have been chary about treaties with their nearest ne...

DUP leader Arlene Foster has said Northern Ireland people feel like they are "lesser citizens" than those in the rest of the UK as a result of the NI Protocol.