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Northern Ireland is no longer governed as integral part of UK

They weren't all Billy boys, but the bully boys have certainly been crawling out of the woodwork again, not that they ever really went away.

• Edwin Poots, Arlene Foster and Jim Allister » Peadar Whelan “Unionists last night erupted in fury after the EU unilaterally activated a crucial clause in the Brexit deal, in what Arlene Foster dubbed ‘an act of incredible hostility’ .” So read the opening paragraph in the front page article of the Belfast unionist daily News Letter on Saturday January 30 as news emerged that the EU threatened to invoke Article 16 of the Irish protocol and block the importation of anti- Covid-19 vaccines into the Six Counties from Europe. Days earlier a public row erupted between Britain and the E...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s declaration that the UK is prepared to invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol to ensure there is no border down the Irish Sea has reopened an unresolved element of the Brexit saga that puts unionism front and centre. DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr told Mr Johnson yesterday the protocol “has betrayed us, and has made us feel like foreigners in our own country” as his party intensified efforts to suspend the arrangement that avoids a hard border in the island of Ireland. In the Commons, Mr Johnson said his government would do everything “whether legisla...

EU's article 16 blunder has focused minds on Northern Ireland Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP The EU’s aborted attempt to trigger article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol could be a blessing in disguise for Northern Ireland. Its decision to pull the emergency cord on an agreement that had introduced regulatory checks on some products travelling between Britain and Northern Ireland without notifiying Dublin or London was quickly reversed. In the blink of eye, many say it undermined the EU’s consistent commit...