Northern Ireland
The latest news and comment on Northern Ireland
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UK lacks expertise for trade talks with Europe, says top civil servantWhitehall negotiators massively outnumbered by European counterparts, according to Foreign Office official
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Dissident Republicans in Northern Ireland seize moment to fight partitionA new border between north and south could yet destabilise the Good Friday agreement, say activists
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Lord Mayhew, former Northern Ireland secretary, dies aged 86Conservative politician was a key figure in the Northern Irish peace process of the early 1990s
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Older ‘left-behind’ voters turned against a political class with values opposed to theirsThe Ukip revolt has reshaped the traditional political landscape – and for both main parties the upheaval has only just begun
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Wales in, Northern Ireland out: Brits in NY see soccer turn EU vote upside downAs worried Poles and Frenchmen look on, expats and tourists digest Brexit, a Euro 2016 exit and a full English breakfast at Legends in midtown Manhattan
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The English have placed a bomb under the Irish peace processThe vote for Brexit unthinkingly jeopardises the Good Friday Agreement, the greatest modern achievement of British diplomacy. It’s an insult to Ireland
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EU referendum night drama points to clear political divideSterling falls 8% in currency markets as Nigel Farage ditches earlier pessimism and Labour admits ‘working assumption’ that remain camp has lost
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Michael McGovern’s heroics in goal in Paris lead to jubilation in BelfastAs Northern Ireland secured their place in the knockout stages of Euro 2016, despite losing 1-0 to Germany, Belfast bathed in memories of the team’s glory in the 1980s
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Northern Ireland’s greatest fear from a Brexit is the return to conflictOurs is a hard-won peace, but it would be instantly jeopardised if Britain were to vote to leave the EU
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Drone delivers abortion pills to Northern Irish womenPolice monitored stunt by pro-choice activists, who flew aircraft from Republic of Ireland, but took no action
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Irish PM Enda Kenny issues border warning over BrexitTaoiseach says a UK vote to leave EU would play into old narrative of division, isolation and difference
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Journalism academic castigates media over paedophile doctorHe points to failings that allowed child abuser to continue working at a hospital
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Drone will fly abortion pills into Northern Ireland as 'act of solidarity'Campaign group seeks to highlight strict laws on abortion in Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
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Why a vote to leave may not cut numbers coming to the UK from the EULetters: EU immigrants denied a UK work permit under a ‘points system’ will simply fly within the EU to Dublin, cross to Northern Ireland and take a boat to Britain
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Northern Ireland planning tributes to fan Darren Rodgers who fell to his deathGoalkeeper Michael McGovern spoke of his sadness after the ‘heartbreaking’ incident during Euro 2016 in which Rodgers died falling over a seaside promenade barrier and through a restaurant’s roof
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UK newspaper, in accepting that Scotland favours Remain, does not run its leading article calling on English and Welsh readers to vote LeaveThe Sun's pro-Brexit campaigning doesn't cross borders
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Northern Ireland fan dies while in Nice for Euro 2016Darren Rodgers, 25, dies after falling eight metres from Promenade des Anglais on to a rocky beach
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Kyle Lafferty replaces George Best at Belfast City airport for Euro 2016 openerNorthern Ireland fans who flew to Nice on Sunday for their Euro 2016 opener against Poland departed from Kyle Lafferty Belfast City airport
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The Guardian view on Brexit and Ireland: another closure of the mindEditorial: The leave campaign gives little thought to Ireland, north or south. But John Major and Tony Blair are right to warn of the risks of such negligence
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The Guardian view on the EU referendum: one constituency, but a messy political mapEditorial: Election results, like the experience of life, have been diverging across the UK. The remain campaign cannot afford to ignore this diversity, but must instead engage with all those English towns that feel left behind
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