One year ago, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) returned to power sharing under the pressure of a mounting industrial crisis which culminated in the January 18th public sector strike. This was the biggest strike in […]
Issues arising from Brexit once again dominate media coverage of relations between the London and Dublin governments. This time the frictions, which have mounted to include the cancellation of Ministerial meetings, follow claims that the […]
Jeffrey Donaldson MP resigned his position as Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) party leader suddenly and unexpectedly on the morning of Good Friday, the twenty-seventh since the Belfast agreement was negotiated in 1997. The announcement came […]
The removal of Edwin Poots as DUP leader has plunged politics into a crisis. We do not yet know how deep this is. The crisis, though, reflects the extreme limitations of Northern Ireland’s vaunted ‘peace […]
The new year heralded additional checks and customs duties being imposed on goods as they transit into Northern Ireland on the Irish sea. The move was conceded in negotiations with the EU by the Tory […]
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