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.
Three men have been arrested in west Belfast following the discovery of a firearm and ammunition, as police investigate criminality linked to the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).
TENS of thousands took to the streets of the Greek capital Athens on Tuesday night in solidarity with hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas, who is believed to be close to death after 55 days without food.
The prisoner from the revolutionary organisation 17 November, which was banned and disbanded in 2002 as a terrorist group by the Greek authorities, has also gone without water since February 22.
He is now being treated in the intensive care unit at the Lamia General Hospital, where his condition is said to have deteriorated.
Mr Koufontinas, who was given 11 life sentences plus 25 years in prison for his participation in a total of 11 murders, explosions and robberies, has been held at the Domokos agricultural prison near Lamia.
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Court told that a Derry man facing child sex abuse charges has received a death threat from the INLA
Solicitor said his client is too afraid to come to the city s courthouse
Derry courthouse at Bishop Street.
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A Derry man facing child sex abuse charges has received a death threat from the INLA, a court was told today.
The man s case came before Derry Magistrates Court.
He is charged with a number of offences, including sexual activity with a child.
His defence solicitor applied for anonymity for his client on the basis that he had received a genuine threat to his life from the INLA .