[Link] Lyra McKee’s family appeal for fresh information about her killing

Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

The family of Lyra McKee has appealed to the public for fresh information about her killing on the third anniversary of the journalist’s murder in Northern Ireland.

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[Link] The young loyalist who dared contemplate the idea of a ‘new’, united, Ireland

Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

He was the teenage supermarket worker who shocked MPs examining loyalist anger in Northern Ireland by claiming that sometimes violence “was the only tool you have left”. Joel Keys left the committee chair, Tory MP Simon Hoare, “chilled and appalled” and he faced a media backlash.

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[Link] Article 16 ‘very much on the table’ in Brexit row, says Frost

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

David Frost, the UK’s Brexit minister, has said triggering article 16 to suspend post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland is “very much on the table”, as he met his EU counterpart in Brussels.

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[Link] Police attacked in Belfast at protest over Northern Ireland protocol

Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Police in Belfast have been attacked with missiles and fireworks following a demonstration against the Brexit protocol in the north of the city. The disorder on Wednesday night took place on Lanark Way in the loyalist Shankill Road area close to the peace wall.

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[Link] What may happen if article 16 of Northern Ireland protocol is triggered?

Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

The UK Brexit minister, David Frost, has stepped up demands on the EU to renegotiate the Northern Ireland protocol, a linchpin of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. At a speech to the Conservative party conference, Frost said “tinkering around the edges” of the protocol would not be enough.

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