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IRISH Foreign Minister Simon Coveney threatened to block Brexit talks from moving on yesterday unless Downing Street addressed Brussels’s threats of a “hard border” with North Ireland.
Speaking at a Brussels summit of EU and former Soviet nations, Mr Coveney insisted that leaders of the bloc’s member states would not give the go-ahead to start phase two of the Brexit negotiations next month without a “credible road map” from Britain.
He again raised the spectre of border posts on on roads between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland if there was “regulatory divergence” — if the north leaves the EU single market along with Britain.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT