British, Irish PMs open to Good Friday Agreement reforms when time right
Belfast, Northern Ireland Reuters The Irish and British Prime Ministers said on Wednesday that they were open to considering reforming Northern Ireland’s Good Friday peace accord, but that any debate could only happen when the powersharing government underpinning it was restored. Irish nationalists and pro-British unionist politicians are obliged to share power under the deal, […]
Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for first time
Belfast, Northern Ireland Reuters Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for the first time, census results showed on Thursday, a historic shift that some see as likely to help drive support for the region to split from Britain and join a united Ireland. The shift comes a century after the Northern Ireland state was […]
Essay: Northern Ireland – the politics behind the riots
DAVID MITCHELL, assistant professor in conflict resolution and reconciliation at Trinity College Dublin, explains – in an article first published on The Conversation, what’s behind recent unrest in Northern Ireland…