The Northern Ireland Protocol

The protocol continues to increase its penetration into NI’s economic and business life. It is a major breach of the spirit and basis of the 1998 settlement

Letter: The Northern Ireland Protocol is a breach of the Good Friday Agreement

Infamously, the DUP claimed to have got rid of the Irish Sea border through its Safeguarding the Union agreement with Rishi Sunak. After Gavin Robinson became leader, he acknowledged that his party ‘oversold’ its achievements. Photo by Jonathan Porter /Press Eye

Owen Polley: There's a risk unionists again repeat untruths on Irish Sea border

The party appeared to join Sinn Fein in an attempted shakedown of Westminster for more cash. Rather than say the £2.5bn offer was irrelevant until the Union was sorted, the DUP were involved in what looked like a financial negotiation

Owen Polley: The Protocol is not resolved yet DUP is already haggling over money

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announcing the Windsor Framework back in February. The NI Protocol/Windsor Framework breaches the fundamental international principle of respect for territorial integrity, writes Dermot Nesbitt

Letter: NI Protocol/Windsor Framework is breach of international law principles

TUV leader Jim Allister. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Pic Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker

Twelfth 2023: Protocol has succeeded where IRA failed

The European Parliament in Strasbourg

European Parliament rebukes UK over NI Protocol checks

DUP party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson addresses delegates at their party conference at the Ramada Hotel in Belfast. Picture date: Saturday October 8, 2022.

Dublin must ‘redouble’ protocol efforts say DUP as Varadkar ‘regret’ welcomed

Former DUP First Minister Paul Givan talks to the media at Stormont. Picture date: Thursday January 27, 2022.

Joint rule would be ‘fatal blow’ to Belfast Agreement, say unionists

Belfast Port

‘Trade to NI would grind to a halt within days’

TUV Leader Jim Allister speaks during a anti-Northern Ireland Protocol rally in Bangor, County Down. Picture date: Saturday April 30, 2022.

TUV leader reminds House of Lords Protocol broke law before Protocol Bill did

Northern Ireland Conservatives at their manifesto launch in late November 2019 for the December general election of that year. Earlier that month Boris Johnson had told them they could throw export declaration forms in the bin. NI Tories seemed to stand by the prime minister in the year or so after the protocol deal, but are now said to be leaving the party

Northern Ireland Tories in disarray over the Irish Sea border, says ex chairman

UUP leader Doug Beattie speaking to the media

Doug Beattie and Jim Allister clash over anti-protocol rallies

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss

EU unimpressed over Liz Truss’s post-Brexit threats on NI

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the foreign secretary Liz Truss said it is her “absolute priority” to resolve the “unintended consequences” created by the protocol to maintain peace in Northern Ireland

UK will trigger Article 16 if NI Protocol talks fail, says Liz Truss

EU Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic speaking at Europe House in Westminster, London after a meeting at Lancaster House in London, the fourth meeting to be held to attempt to resolve issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol. Picture date: Friday November 12, 2021.

UK breached a great deal of trust over Protocol: Sefcovic

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has asked for a meeting with Sir Keir Starmer

DUP leader says Labour must oppose protocol to prove it is ‘party of the union’
DUP Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said if Labour really wants to demonstrate that it is “the party of the union” then it will join every elected unionist in Northern Ireland and call for the Irish Sea border to be scrapped.
Graeme Cousins

Paul Givan pressed home Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s threats to collapse Stormont

DUP warns that clock ticking to Stormont shutdown over NI Protocol

Lord David Trimble warned Joe Biden about ‘a return to sectarian strife’ due to the Northern Ireland Protocol. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

US silent on Trimble warning that Joe Biden ‘risks a return to sectarian strife'

Peter Robinson, a former DUP leader and first minister of Northern Ireland, writes a column for the News Letter every other Friday

Peter Robinson: The NI Protocol is like a cancer in the blood and bones of Union

John Larkin QC told the court: 'If the power to make law for NI can be handed to Brussels, it can just as easily be given to Dublin.' Mr Larkin’s logic is remorseless but unionist parties seem not to have confronted its importance

Owen Polley: NI Protocol is so serious that unionists should rethink everything

The protocol imposed new checks and processes on goods being shipped into Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK

Irish Sea border: NI could be ‘permanent casualty’ of Brexit if protocol not add...

A Kosher baker with Purim cakes baked specially for the Jewish festival of Hamentashen.

NI Protocol placing ‘tremendous’ strain’ on NI’s Jewish community

DUP leader designate Edwin Poots (left) with party colleague Ian Paisley Jnr. leaving Stormont House in Belfast after a meeting with Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Protocol at top of agenda as Edwin Poots meets Brandon Lewis in Belfast

Trucks arrive at Larne port. File photo.

Northern Ireland Protocol is legally ‘rotten to the core’, High Court told

The overwhelming consensus amongst unionists in Northern Ireland is that the Protocol must be removed completely.

NI Protocol is ‘unlawful’ on a number of grounds, court challenge is told

Vials of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. Jim Allister writes: "From 2022 Medicines made in Great Britain will have to be licensed separately for use in Northern Ireland and undergoing separate safety inspections"

Jim Allister: NI Protocol is literally bad for your health by blocking medicines

Jim Nicholson, then an Ulster Unionist MEP, speaking in Strasbourg on March 27 2019, one of his last times in the chamber after 30 years in the European Parliament

Jim Nicholson: NI Protocol is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Clearly the response of some unionists to the current situation is to use age old, out of date methods to address the challenges which Northern Ireland faces.
Jim Nicholson

Stena Line transports 65% of the freight moving between Northern Ireland and Great Britain

Pre-Brexit stockpiling creates surge in Irish Sea shipping demand

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