# good-friday-agreement - Yesterday’s News
# Brexit
# Brexit
The US Congressional group met business organisations as their last engagement on their trip to the island of Ireland.
# good-friday-agreement - Sunday 10 April, 2022
# Good Friday Agreement
# Good Friday Agreement
The Taoiseach released a statement to mark the 24th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement .
# good-friday-agreement - Tuesday 1 February, 2022
# Oireachtas
# Oireachtas
Aontú TD Peadar Tóibín said the decision to refuse the invitation was “a disgrace”.
# good-friday-agreement - Friday 12 November, 2021
# RIP
# RIP
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood pays tribute to the late politician and civil rights campaigner, who will be buried today.
# good-friday-agreement - Monday 8 November, 2021
# Article 16
# Article 16
Micheál Martin has called on the Progressive Unionist Party to reconsider their withdrawal of support for the Good Friday Agreement
# good-friday-agreement - Wednesday 22 September, 2021
# Good Friday Agreement
The US president met the UK Prime Minister in the Oval Office. Biden issued a fresh warning for the UK not to damage the peace process over the EU departure. Johnson agreed, saying: “On that point, Joe, we’re completely at one."
# good-friday-agreement - Wednesday 30 June, 2021
# Good Friday Agreement
# Good Friday Agreement
This included an argument that the Northern Ireland Protocol breached the Good Friday Agreement .
# good-friday-agreement - Monday 14 June, 2021
# Protocol
The US President told the UK Prime Minister he must protect the Good Friday Agreement and the peace process Taoiseach Micheál Martin said a further grace period for the Northern Ireland Protocol would be “very problematic” The DUP's new leader Edwin Poots sent a copy of the Good Friday Agreement to French President Emmanuel Macron
# good-friday-agreement - Sunday 13 June, 2021
# Sausages From Toulouse
# Sausages From Toulouse
Emmanuel Macron reportedly implied that Northern Ireland was a separate country.
# good-friday-agreement - Thursday 10 June, 2021
# Northern Ireland
Biden's aides say he will stress the need to "stand behind" the Northern Ireland Protocol. Micheál Martin said this morning that Biden's and US involvement is significant and makes sense from an American perspective. European Council President Charles Michel said it's "paramount" that the terms of the Brexit deal are respected.
# good-friday-agreement - Saturday 8 May, 2021
# Brexit
# Brexit
The open letter has been sent to Micheál Martin, Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and Maros Sefcovic.
# good-friday-agreement - Monday 26 April, 2021
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
The legacy case of Joe McCann is one of several on which Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service has taken decisions.
# good-friday-agreement - Tuesday 13 April, 2021
# Brexit
# Brexit
Boris Johnson was of sowing mistrust among the unionist community, and is not “a casual observer” to events in the North.
# good-friday-agreement - Saturday 10 April, 2021
# The Troubles
# The Troubles
The agreement was signed 23 years ago today.
# good-friday-agreement - Friday 9 April, 2021
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
Emma DeSouza says the unrest in the North is not a failure of peace but a failure of leadership.
# good-friday-agreement - Thursday 8 April, 2021
# Belfast Violence
# Belfast Violence
The former BBC correspondent and author says it’s like a rewind button has been pressed to the past in the North.
# good-friday-agreement - Friday 5 March, 2021
# Good Friday Agreement
# Good Friday Agreement
Jen Psaki, White House spokeswoman, spoke of Biden’s support for the agreement during the daily press briefing.
# good-friday-agreement - Thursday 4 March, 2021
# Northern Protocol
# Northern Protocol
Loyalist paramilitaries in NI have said they are withdrawing their support for the GFA.
# good-friday-agreement - Tuesday 16 February, 2021
# Good Friday Agreement
# Good Friday Agreement
The decision to hold a referendum is ultimately one to be taken by the UK’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
# good-friday-agreement - Wednesday 10 February, 2021
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
Maros Sefcovic made the remarks in a letter to UK Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove
# good-friday-agreement - Wednesday 30 December, 2020
# Archives
# Archives
Records released from the National Archives give details of an early meeting involving the two leaders.
# good-friday-agreement - Friday 20 November, 2020
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
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.
# good-friday-agreement - Thursday 22 October, 2020
# Shared Island Initiative
# Shared Island Initiative
Martin said a border poll is not on the agenda for his Government in the next five years.
# good-friday-agreement - Thursday 1 October, 2020
# Emma DeSouza
# Emma DeSouza
The legal case taken by the DeSouzas was “a private case in respect of an immigration application”, the Irish government said.
# good-friday-agreement - Wednesday 16 September, 2020
# Good Friday Agreement
# Good Friday Agreement
Meanwhile, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told US Congress that the EU is threatening peace in Northern Ireland
# good-friday-agreement - Wednesday 5 August, 2020
# Good Friday Agreement
# Good Friday Agreement
Rights campaigner Emma DeSouza pays tribute to John Hume, the peacemaker, who will be laid to rest today.
# good-friday-agreement - Tuesday 4 August, 2020
# Newspapers
# Newspapers
Newspapers have extensively covered the life of John Hume in today’s front pages.
# good-friday-agreement - Thursday 21 May, 2020
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
DeSouza said she will continue to campaign for full recognition of Irish citizenship in NI.
# good-friday-agreement - Thursday 14 May, 2020
# Immigration Rules
# Immigration Rules
Spouses of those born in the North can apply for official EEA residence permits.
# good-friday-agreement - Tuesday 28 January, 2020
# Good Friday Agreement
# Good Friday Agreement
Emma DeSouza will be asking the House of Representatives to pass a resolution supporting her case to self-identify as Irish.
# good-friday-agreement - Saturday 25 January, 2020
# Peace And Justice
# Peace And Justice
Mallon, the former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister, passed away yesterday aged 83.
# good-friday-agreement - Tuesday 17 December, 2019
# Good Friday Agreement
# Good Friday Agreement
“No one should have to go to court to be able to assert their right to be Irish,” Tánaiste Simon Coveney said in Belfast.
# good-friday-agreement - Wednesday 4 December, 2019
# Good Friday Agreement
# Good Friday Agreement
De Souza is appealing a ruling by UK immigration courts that those born in Northern Ireland are automatically British.
# good-friday-agreement - Tuesday 3 December, 2019
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
The vote is due to take place at 11.30pm Irish time today.
# good-friday-agreement - Saturday 23 November, 2019
# Emma DeSouza
# Emma DeSouza
The tribunal made its initial ruling following an appeal by the Home Office in October.
# good-friday-agreement - Friday 25 October, 2019
# United Ireland
# United Ireland
“I would, but only in accordance with the Good Friday Agreement .”
# good-friday-agreement - Friday 18 October, 2019
# Good Friday Agreement
# Good Friday Agreement
The claim was made by Sinn Féin following a UK Tribunal ruling this week.
# good-friday-agreement - Wednesday 16 October, 2019
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
He added he believes the GFA should be reformed to change the controversial petition of concern.
# good-friday-agreement - Tuesday 15 October, 2019
# Citizenship
# Citizenship
The Home Office won an appeal against a ruling which found that people born in the North are not automatically British.
# Good Friday Agreement
# Good Friday Agreement
“A person’s nationality cannot depend in law on an undisclosed state of mind,” the Upper Tribunal argued in it’s decision.
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