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Game of brinkmanship" using the northern ireland protocol. borisjohnson cannot play games with the people of the north or with the island of ireland. he has connived with the dup to use ireland, to use the north of ireland, to use unionism in ireland as a pawn in a wider game that is being played out with the european union, and that is clearly a shameful tactic and approach, and it is one that is absolutely not acceptable. we will meet borisjohnson on monday in the north, and i know that michelle, as first minister, i hope, we hope will meet with the taoiseach in the course of the coming week...

Disadvantages of the protocol with regards to trade. he also said that some people in westminster were using the protocol as a vehicle for their own agenda and appealing to their own agenda and appealing to the eu to think not so much about what the erg group of conservatives might want but to listen to northern ireland and political unionism in northern ireland on what it needs. do you think this appeal to the eu might help in anyway? t do you think this appeal to the eu might help in anyway?— might help in anyway? i think at this staue might help in anyway? i think at this stage nothing _ ...

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...

Queen's university in belfast i met a history professor who tried to explain it to my. it a history professor who tried to explain it to my.— a history professor who tried to explain it to my. it shows a really strona explain it to my. it shows a really strong relationship _ explain it to my. it shows a really strong relationship between - strong relationship between geography and space and political power. geography and space and political ower. ., ., , , ., . , power. from the old irish provinces and counties _ power. from the old irish provinces and counties of _ power. from the old irish...

Political journey. if we look back to the good friday agreement, they would have been ex—prisoners, they would have been people who would have had links to that sort of republican wing of sinn fein/the ira. what we see now is a very young party, a very progressive party. it's full of young women — the two leaders are women, both of whom have no connection to that sort of previous past. but sinn fein�*s successes a blow for unionism. the immediate challenge for the party's current leaders will be to form a new power—sharing executive at stormont and governing in the first minister role ...