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    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Brexit
      DUP secretly warned against N Ireland trade deal demand, letter reveals

      Unionists rubbished ‘dual regulation’ approach months before making it a condition of accepting Sunak’s Brexit agreement

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      Brexit
      Sunak wins vote on post-Brexit Northern Ireland deal

      Windsor framework passed by 515 votes to 29 despite revolt by three ex-Conservative leaders

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      Brexit
      Boris Johnson and Liz Truss to vote against Sunak’s Brexit deal

      Eurosceptic Tory MPs concerned over EU laws remaining in force in Northern Ireland

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      Brexit
      DUP to vote against key part of Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal

      Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party concerned about Stormont’s ability to reject EU laws

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Britain after Brexit
      Northern Ireland’s budget squeeze Premium content

      Plus, how childcare in the region is eating into household incomes

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      News in-depthIreland
      Ireland’s housing crisis leaves refugees and homeless in desperate plight

      Evictions of tenants resume and numbers of asylum seekers rise while country is short of 250,000 homes

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Brexit
      Northern Ireland unionist leader demands ‘change’ to Windsor framework

      Jeffrey Donaldson says new post-Brexit trade deal fails to remove all barriers to trade with Great Britain

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Brexit
      New EU arsenic rules catch N Ireland between Brussels and London

      Baby food measures highlight novel status of region under the Windsor framework

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Brexit
      DUP panel to review Northern Ireland Brexit deal by end of March

      Region’s biggest unionist party says ‘it is always better to get the right outcome than a rushed one’

    • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
      Beer and spirits
      Irish whiskey makers see chance to catch up with tweedy Scotch cousins

      The US is the biggest market for the ‘emerald spirit’ and new distillers are hoping to attract a younger set of customers

    • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
      News in-depthBrexit
      ‘Like a light coming on’: N Ireland business hails Brexit trade deal

      Slashing of red tape in Windsor framework has lifted a cloud over doing business in region

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Political Fix podcast26 min listen
      Has Rishi Sunak’s NI deal silenced Tory Eurosceptics?

      Some formerly staunch Conservative eurosceptics are now on the PM’s side

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      News in-depthBrexit
      Inside the secret talks that broke Brexit deadlock on N Ireland

      EU recognised Sunak’s willingness to plunge into detail of potential solutions after confrontation of Johnson years

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Brexit
      Sunak threatens to push through Brexit deal without DUP

      UK prime minister says new accord with Brussels will unlock investment in Northern Ireland

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Brexit
      EU and UK strike Brexit deal on Northern Ireland

      Rishi Sunak hails ‘new chapter’ in relationship with Brussels after meeting European Commission president

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      News in-depthBrexit
      UK and EU seek to draw a line under the rancour of Brexit

      Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen use deal on Northern Ireland to herald renewed friendship between two sides

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Brexit
      DUP gives guarded response to Sunak’s Northern Ireland deal

      Verdict of unionist party is pivotal to restoring devolved government at Stormont

    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      Brexit
      Britain and EU aim to seal Brexit deal on Northern Ireland

      Sunak and von der Leyen to meet to finalise agreement on overhauling trading regime

    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      Brexit
      EU chief to travel to the UK to finalise Brexit deal

      European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to meet Rishi Sunak to discuss Northern Ireland’s trading regime

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Brexit
      Sunak to defy Tory right and push ahead with N Ireland protocol deal

      Much depends on whether Democratic Unionist party responds positively to prime minister’s proposal

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      The Big Read
      The high-stakes gamble to finally get Brexit done

      Negotiating a new Northern Ireland protocol would bring tangible benefits, but succeed or fail, there will be political costs

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Britain after Brexit
      DUP demands threaten to sink Sunak’s protocol deal Premium content

      Plus, Northern Ireland mentions in parliament charted

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Northern Ireland
      Three men arrested after police officer shot in N Ireland

      Dissident republican paramilitaries are suspected of carrying out the attack at youth centre

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Sunak held hostage by Tory ‘malcontents’ on Northern Ireland, says Labour

      Keir Starmer on the attack as prime minister’s hopes of a Brexit deal hit more problems

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      Brexit
      DUP warns Sunak ‘very key issues’ remain on any Northern Ireland deal

      Donaldson says still some way to go to win over unionists, but key cabinet members are backing PM

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