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Calls to cast aside the Northern Ireland protocol are “completely unrealistic”, Simon Coveney has said adding it “will not happen”. Ireland, the EU and the UK have a legal obligation in an international treaty to implement the protocol, the Foreign Affairs Minister said. “The protocol is not primarily the problem here, the problem is caused by Brexit, and the kind of Brexit Britain pursued and insisted on, because there were alternatives that would have been much easier to implement. “The EU wanted to share a customs union and a single market with the UK, that would have meant no ...

Explainer: Why has a row broken out over checks between GB and Northern Ireland? There’s a lot going on. Here it is, all broken down into bite-sized pieces. By Gráinne Ní Aodha Wednesday 3 Feb 2021, 5:14 PM Feb 3rd 2021, 5:14 PM 34,073 Views 39 Comments Vehicles disembark from the P&O ferry arriving from Scotland at the port of Larne. Image: AP/PA Images Image: AP/PA Images THERE ARE PROBLEMS with post-Brexit trade between Northern Irela...

Louth TD says people need to have confidence in Covid vaccine rollout Reporter:  '); ‘Support and confidence’ are needed to ensure that the public has faith in the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú has said. The Sinn Féin TD was speaking after the EU pulled back from their threat to trigger Article 16 of the Irish Protocol in order to stop AstraZeneca vaccines being exported out of the EU. He said it was ‘foolhardy in the extreme’ for the EU to ‘even moot the triggering of Article 16’ as ‘it was grist to the mill of the Brexiteers who are already using ...

NI heads of government divided over protocol after Covid-19 vaccine row First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill have clashed over the Northern Ireland Protocol. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA) Sat, 30 Jan, 2021 - 15:55 Rebecca Black, PA Northern Ireland’s joint heads of government are divided over the Brexit protocol in the aftermath of an EU attempt to slam on the brakes over Covid-19 vaccination supply routes. First Minister Arlene Foster has urged the UK Government to intervene, while deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill has insisted the protocol must sta...

THE EU attempted to block the transit of Covid vaccines to the UK last night after its own crisis regarding a shortage deepened. Why did the European Commission revoke Article 16?