Taoiseach warns against 'spiral back' to sectarian conflict on anniversary of Good Friday Agreement
The agreement was signed 23 years ago today.
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The agreement was signed 23 years ago today.
Emma DeSouza says the unrest in the North is not a failure of peace but a failure of leadership.
The former BBC correspondent and author says it’s like a rewind button has been pressed to the past in the North.
Jen Psaki, White House spokeswoman, spoke of Biden’s support for the agreement during the daily press briefing.
Loyalist paramilitaries in NI have said they are withdrawing their support for the GFA.
The decision to hold a referendum is ultimately one to be taken by the UK’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Maros Sefcovic made the remarks in a letter to UK Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove
Records released from the National Archives give details of an early meeting involving the two leaders.
The Anglo-Irish Agreement is 35 years old this month. Mike Chinoy charts how the work of two professors shaped that agreement and laid the ground for the peace process.
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.
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”.