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EU officials have obstinately adhered to an onerous Brexit-deal provision that has alienated pro-UK Ulster unionists in Northern Ireland from the British mainland, making some of them launch what they believe is a proportional response to an undemocratic decree.  European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer issued a statement on Thursday condemning the …

These protests have not suddenly appeared out of nowhere, but neither are they all about Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol. They are the culmination of a complex mix of change and a deep-rooted resistance to it, and an ingrained political and social inertia particular to this place. It’s true …

Over the past few weeks, Northern Ireland has been rocked by unrest and rioting in its unionist community. As of last night, 41 police officers have been injured in the scuffles which have seen vehicles destroyed and petrol bombs hurled. The British media have been conspicuously silent on it, with the …

The Irish Department of Health confirmed to the media that the rollout of the jab had been “temporarily deferred.”  The decision came at the urging of Ireland’s National Immunisation Advisory Committee, following four new cases of “serious” blood clotting that occurred in adults who received the vaccine in Norway. Ireland’s …

“This idea that Britain can get there first is narrow minded thinking, frankly,” Coveney told the Times in an interview on Saturday. “It’s a perverse nationalism when actually Britain and the EU should work together as partners,” he declared. Moreover, Coveney criticised the UK’s delay in performing agreed-to checks on …

Speaking on Friday, Northern Ireland’s first minister, Arlene Foster, said that the EU is not interested in the issue of peace on the island of Ireland. “What they’re only interested in is protecting their bloc, they’re not interested, as they claim to be, in protecting the Belfast agreement,” Foster told …

Police had investigated two additional separate breaches by US servicemen during their overnight stopovers in addition to one that occurred on January 25 that elicited an apology from officials in Washington, Minister Simon Coveney revealed on Friday. Earlier this month, Coveney had said 48 military and five crew from a …

“What is causing all of this tension is Brexit, not the [Northern Ireland] Protocol, the Protocol is an attempt to try to reduce tension and solve problems linked to Brexit,” Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told BBC Radio on Wednesday.  “The Protocol essentially is an Irish and British and EU …

By deciding to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol on Friday, the EU attempted to stop vaccines moving from the Union to the UK – which, unlike the EU, has enjoyed a speedy inoculation rollout – through the perceived backdoor of Northern Ireland. The EU reversed its plan after …

In a statement late on Friday, Brussels said that it would not take advantage of the emergency mechanism in the divorce deal with Britain to unilaterally restrict the movement of goods from the EU into Northern Ireland to stop the free flow of vaccine doses. While the European Commission sought …