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Thursday 22 October 2020
Martin said a border poll is not on the agenda for his Government in the next five years.
The legal case taken by the DeSouzas was “a private case in respect of an immigration application”, the Irish government said.
Meanwhile, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told US Congress that the EU is threatening peace in Northern Ireland
Rights campaigner Emma DeSouza pays tribute to John Hume, the peacemaker, who will be laid to rest today.
Newspapers have extensively covered the life of John Hume in today’s front pages.
DeSouza said she will continue to campaign for full recognition of Irish citizenship in NI.
Strict new coronavirus measures have come into effect – here’s what they mean for you.
Spouses of those born in the North can apply for official EEA residence permits.
Emma DeSouza will be asking the House of Representatives to pass a resolution supporting her case to self-identify as Irish.
Mallon, the former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister, passed away yesterday aged 83.
“No one should have to go to court to be able to assert their right to be Irish,” Tánaiste Simon Coveney said in Belfast.
De Souza is appealing a ruling by UK immigration courts that those born in Northern Ireland are automatically British.
The vote is due to take place at 11.30pm Irish time today.
The tribunal made its initial ruling following an appeal by the Home Office in October.
“I would, but only in accordance with the Good Friday Agreement.”
The claim was made by Sinn Féin following a UK Tribunal ruling this week.
He added he believes the GFA should be reformed to change the controversial petition of concern.
The Home Office won an appeal against a ruling which found that people born in the North are not automatically British.
“A person’s nationality cannot depend in law on an undisclosed state of mind,” the Upper Tribunal argued in it’s decision.
DeSouza, from Co Derry, identified herself as Irish in an application for a residence card for her US-born husband.
A former top official in the Department of Foreign Affairs made the comments at an event in Trinity this evening.
University College London is working with Irish universities on the project.
Martin said the last time Johnson was in Ireland, he didn’t show the ‘slightest level of understanding’ about the the Good Friday Agreement.
Emma DeSouza is challenging the Home Office’s argument that British immigration law supersedes the Good Friday Agreement.
In an exclusive interview with TheJournal.ie, Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo was keen to defend his government’s desire for modifications to The Special Jurisdiction for Peace tribunal (JEP).
She repeated that a US-US trade deal is off the table post-Brexit if the Good Friday Accord is compromised.
“The Good Friday accord ended 700-years of conflict,” she told the London School of Economics last night.
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland’s response to a parliamentary question last month has drawn ire.
The Good Friday Agreement called for North-South and West-East cooperation, but some people may have forgotten this.
Brexit and the possibility of a resurrected border loom over us like a hammer ready to crush our fragile peace – and we aren’t prepared for the consequences., writes Emily Duffy.
John Connolly, the group’s leader in prison in the 2000s, says things would change dramatically in the event of a hard border.
The former Taoiseach insisted repeatedly that “Northern Ireland is not the same as the rest of the UK”.
He accused some politicians of “playing fast and loose” with the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Theresa May has said she remains committed to preventing a hard border on the island of Ireland post-Brexit.
May said she will hold further talks on the backstop.
Theresa May is due to set out her next steps on trying to salvage her Brexit plans to the House of Commons today.
The UK Home Office has argued that British immigration laws supercede the Good Friday Agreement.
Varadkar was speaking to RTÉ Radio One’s Marian Finucan Show this morning.
“I have respect for Arlene, but she is wrong on this,” Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said.
She also said that fears about how Brexit will affect Ireland was turning people off the idea.
Northern Ireland has been without a government for over a year and a half – so Westminster and Dublin are being asked to introduce new abortion laws.
AS THE COUNTRY enters Level 5 restrictions for the next six weeks, we’ll all be finding different ways to occupy our time or take a break from work.
In April and May, many people put their trainers on and went for long walks, jogs or runs. Others took a dip in the sea.
With restrictions now in place, we want to know: Do you plan to exercise more over the next six weeks?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Lecturer Maeve O’Rourke analyses the government’s nine main arguments in relation to the Bill.
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