NorthernIreland
A new report has estimated that the reunification of Ireland would cost around €20 billion a year for two decades. Findings from the Dublin-based Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) take into account the current level of funding Northern Ireland receives from the UK government. They also include the share of UK national debt it would presumably carry were it to join a united Ireland as well as its economy's markedly low productivity relative to the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland's public services currently rely heavily on a "subvention" of some €11 billion from the UK...
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A Belfast judge ruled on Wednesday that a new law granting immunity from prosecution for most offences committed during the conflict in Northern Ireland violates human rights. The new measure was passed in September 2023 as part of the British government's Legacy and Reconciliation Bill, an attempt to finally lay to rest the ghosts of the decades of violence known as the Troubles. The legislation stops prosecutions for killings by militant groups and British soldiers during the conflict, which claimed some 3,500 people lives between the 1960s and 1990s. The worst of the organised paramilitary ...
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Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government has been restored, with pro-United Ireland parties now holding both the office of First Minister and leader of the Opposition. Unionism — the political force that advocates for Northern Ireland to remain a part of the United Kingdom — is in steady decline; How close are we to a United Ireland? Looking at the present political landscape, in every electoral office the vote share for political unionism has decreased, while nationalist party Sinn Féin has surged to become the largest party in both local and national government. By contrast, Northern Irel...
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The leaders of the UK and Ireland went to Belfast Monday to meet Northern Ireland’s newly revived government and bask in a good-news moment after two years of political crisis. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar were visiting the new administration at Belfast's Stormont Castle as its ministers met for the first time. The ministers wasted no time before pressing London for more money to patch up Northern Ireland’s creaking public services. The visits came two days after members of the Northern Ireland Assembly appointed a power-sharing government following a t...
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Sinn Féin Vice President Michelle O’Neill was nominated as first minister in the government that under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday peace accord shares power between Northern Ireland’s two main communities — British unionists who want to stay in the UK, and Irish nationalists who seek to unite with Ireland. Northern Ireland was established as a unionist, Protestant-majority part of the UK in 1921, following independence for the Republic of Ireland. “The days of second-class citizenship are long gone. Today confirms that they are never coming back,” O’Neill said. “As an Irish republican, I...
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Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party has agreed to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a regional government for two years, it said on Tuesday – a breakthrough that could see the shuttered power-sharing administration in Belfast restored within days. The breakthrough came shortly after the UK government gave Northern Ireland's political parties until 8 February to restore the collapsed government in Belfast or face new elections. After a late-night meeting, Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson announced that the party’s executive has backed proposals ...
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