US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads a Congressional delegation to Ireland in April 2019.
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Northern Ireland looms even larger an issue for Brexit as US Irish Americans wield influence.
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Urgent intervention is needed to secure H&W – and other strategic UK industrial assets – before key skills and capacity are irretrievably lost.
Demonstrators in Scotland make their feelings toward Boris Johnson known.
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The £300m extra funding apparently bypasses the official block funding mechanism that has been in operation since devolution.
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Women’s prisons have become stopgaps, a place to simply put people society does not know what else to do with.
Determined to stop a no deal Brexit.
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MPs opposed to a no-deal Brexit have won a small victory in parliament – but what does it mean?
Orangemen on the march.
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Many voters in Northern Ireland are tired of the sectarian stranglehold of Sinn Fein and the DUP – and the ‘others’ are gaining ground.
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The debacle has highlighted the negative image which unionism must lay to rest for good or face extinction.
In Northern Ireland, learning a second language is not a statutory part of the primary school curriculum.
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Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where primary school pupils do not have to learn another language.
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Northern Ireland’s youngest constituents politely request that politicians stop whining about Brexit.
Alliance’s Naomi Long talks to the press after her surprise win.
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For 50 years, the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland has lagged behind the main unionist and nationalist parties. But it left them standing in the European elections.
British forces on patrol in Basra, Iraq in 2003.
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Soldier amnesty plans pose grave challenges to human rights – and set the stage for a future showdown with the European Court of Human Rights.
Grafitti in Creggan, near where Lyra McKee was shot.
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Some of those who’ve grown up after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement are drawn into paramilitary groups due to a lack of power, protection and belonging.
Flowers at the spot where Lyra McKee was shot in Derry.
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Despite a year as UK City of Culture in 2013, Derry remains a place where poverty and worklessness are commonplace. Now it is mourning the loss of journalist Lyra McKee.
Pelosi has a quick word with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
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The House of Representatives speaker repeatedly said the UK can forget about a trade deal with the US if it fails to meet its obligations to the Good Friday Agreement.
Signs of protest along the Irish border.
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Two scholars examine days of parliamentary debate to learn how British MPs talk about the ‘Irish backstop’ and maintaining peace in Northern Ireland.
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These are the five options for Brexit: Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement, staying in the customs union, staying in the single market, the so-called Common Market 2.0 idea or a no-deal Brexit.
A mural in Bogside in Derry/Londonderry near the site of the events of Bloody Sunday.
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Why a broad amnesty for Northern Ireland’s Troubles remains unlikely.
A frictionless border.
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How to make sense of the UK government’s no-deal Brexit contingency plans to avoid a hard border in Ireland.
The family that votes together remains together?
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Westminster has consistently disregarded the concerns of the devolved administrations over Brexit.
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The Brexit agreement between the UK and Ireland that few people are talking about – and why it’s still not enough.