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Report examining Brexit and a United Ireland launched

David McCann on August 2, 2017, 5:07 pm | Readers 3417

The Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement launched a report today entitled Brexit and the Future of Ireland Uniting Ireland & Its People in Peace & Prosperity. The report examines issues around Brexit and the a United Ireland and is a lengthy document. Here are some of the key recommendations from the committee; On Brexit The Irish government must negotiate for Northern Ireland to be designated with special status within the EU and for the whole …

A Tory landslide may prove bitter-sweet for Unionists

Daithi McKay on June 8, 2017, 7:01 am | Readers 4023

On the eve of what has been a disastrous Westminster election campaign for the Tories it seems that the Conservatives are set to be returned as the main political party in Britain once again. The election here in the north has been somewhat dull, certainly in comparison to the Assembly poll in March so hopefully we will have some dramatic results in the wee small hours of Friday morning to make up for that. By the weekend the DUP should emerge …

Nationalists must keep their heads, when all others are losing theirs.

David McCann on June 26, 2016, 1:10 pm | Readers 2267

IF you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs Rudyard Kipling Chris Donnelly and Pete Baker have very diligently summed up the problems (folly) with the immediate calls for a Border Poll. We are constitutionally and politically in no mans land. What most of us thought was going to be a narrow Remain win was shattered at 4:40 am on Friday morning with David Dimbleby’s call that “the decision this country made in 1975 has been …