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Brexit disrupts supply chains
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 is largely credited with ending what had become a low-level civil war. One of its key stipulations was keeping the land border open between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland a development made possible in no small part because of the UK and the Republic of Ireland both being EU members in the single market and the customs union at the time.
Brexit negotiators aimed to protect the Good Friday Agreement. They drafted the Northern Ireland Protocol, which kept it in the EU s customs union and enabled the border to remain open.
Prepare for Irish unity poll, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says in Easter address Mary Lou McDonald gives the party s Easter online address Mairead Holland 05 April, 2021 01:00
SINN Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has said both the Irish and British governments must prepare for a referendum on Irish unity.
In an address for the party s online Easter commemoration yesterday, she said a united Ireland presents an exciting opportunity to shape something new, something different and something better than anything that has gone before .
Republican groups marked the 105th anniversary of the 1916 Rising yesterday either with online speeches or small symbolic events due to Covid restrictions.