Sinn Fein was once disparaged as the political wing of the IRA. It’s now on course to be the biggest party in both the north and south of the island.
Panel including former US envoy appeals to UK and Irish governments to work together on paramilitary disbandment.
Former Labour MP calls on government to suspend Northern Ireland protocal in Brexit deal
How Brexit Lit the Fuse in Northern Ireland
13/04/2021
Loyalist fears that Boris Johnson is abandoning them have sparked a wave of violence that could endanger the Good Friday Agreement.
Youths from the loyalist community in Northern Ireland continue violent protests against the UK government's Brexit policy, which they fear will lead to unity with the Irish Republic.
Unionists criticised for ‘incendiary’ rhetoric as dozens of officers injured in days of unrest.
‘Some sections of the community are starting to sense they are sitting on a powder keg’
Police have released images of the Continuity IRA bomb that they believe was intended to be loaded onto a passenger ferry at Belfast docks to mark 'Brexit Day'.
Government told to wake up to extent of unionist anger over ‘betrayal’ of Northern Ireland.
New IRA says border infrastructure would be ‘legitimate target for attack’. In an interview with Channel 4 News, the group said it was committed to ‘armed actions’ against border infrastructure – and ‘the people who are manning them’.
PSNI assistant chief constable George Clarke says no deal could be a "clarion call" for violent dissident republicans.
Boris Johnson is not only willing to risk peace in Northern Ireland – he's destroying a US trade deal too
15/08/2019
On the 21st anniversary of the Omagh bombing, the prime minister's brinkmanship over a no-deal Brexit manages to be both morally indefensible and utterly stupid.
I Remember The Omagh Bloodshed – Boris Johnson's No-Deal Brexit Risks A Return To Violence
15/08/2019
Our prime minister claims he wants to keep the Good Friday Agreement safe, yet his desire to push through a no-deal Brexit makes that impossible, Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith writes.
Everyone should worry about no deal, the civil servant who was, until March, head of the Brexit department has said.
No-deal Brexit is ‘fraught with risk’ and ‘everybody should be worried’, says former top civil servant
08/07/2019
‘Everybody should be worried about what happens in a no-deal situation,’ Philip Rycroft says in interview with BBC Panorama.
The United Kingdom’s Brexit plan appears to have prompted a wave of attacks from the so-called New IRA, a dissident group that never accepted the peace agreement signed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army two decades ago.
Brexit Party MEP candidate quits over colleague’s refusal to condemn Warrington IRA bomb attack that left two boys dead
02/05/2019
Sally Bate quit after candidate Claire Fox failed to condemn the Warrington bombings of 1993.
The father of a schoolboy killed in an IRA bombing has condemned a Brexit Party candidate for "absolutely disgraceful" comments made in the days after the attack.
They said: 'We fully accept we cannot defeat the British militarily... but we will continue to fight for as long as they remain here'. / The New IRA, the paramilitary group behind the murder of journalist Lyra McKee, has said it will use Brexit tensions to recruit new members.
Brexit is helping the New IRA to recruit young supporters and continue its campaign of violence, senior members of the paramilitary organisation have said.
There may be no direct comparison, but the ghosts of Northern Ireland’s violent past haunt Brexit
04/04/2019
The Protestant politicians of the 1970s and the Tory Brexiteers of today have a common denominator: their fear of ‘betrayal’ and their constant assurance that they are speaking for ‘the people of Britain’.