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Over a quarter of people in the six counties say they have changed their mind since the Brexit vote and now support a united Ireland – bringing polling for a referendum to 45 per cent staying in the UK and 42 per cent leaving it, with 13 per cent undecided. ^ "LT NI Tracker Poll (October 2017) – Results Report".
In 1968 the Irish Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, raised the issue of partition in London: "It has been the aim of my government and its predecessors to promote the reunification of Ireland by fostering a spirit of brotherhood among all sections of the Irish people. The clashes in the streets of Derry are an expression of the evils which partition has ...
Ireland's main opposition party, Sinn Fein, outlined a stricter immigration policy on Tuesday after identifying its lack of clarity on the issue as a major reason for a poor showing at local ...
Protests at several locations in Ireland started in early November 2022 after the development of sites in various parts of the country as temporary asylum seeker shelters by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY), as it attempted to accommodate the influx of 65,000 refugees during 2022. [1]
The question of a referendum on Irish unity is not a priority and does not “arise currently”, Simon Harris has said. Ireland’s premier said it was more important for the new UK Government to ...
Party president Mary Lou McDonald joined colleagues to launch Sinn Fein’s Assembly election manifesto in Belfast.
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) or Belfast Agreement (Irish: Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or Comhaontú Bhéal Feirste; Ulster Scots: Guid Friday Greeance or Bilfawst Greeance) [1] is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April (Good Friday) 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, an ethno-nationalist conflict [2] in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s.
Tiocfaidh ár lá ( Irish pronunciation: [ˈtʲʊkiː aːɾˠ ˈl̪ˠaː]) is an Irish language sentence which translates as "our day will come". It is a slogan of Irish Republicanism. "Our day" is the date hoped for by Irish nationalists on which a united Ireland is achieved. [ 1][ 2] The slogan was coined in the 1970s during the Troubles in ...