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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