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DUBLIN( Reuters)-Britain and the European Union can find sensible solutions to issues over Northern Ireland's post-Brexit trading arrangements with the right political will, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said on Thursday." A positive and constructive future partnership is in everyone's interests but it will only be delivered if there is a relationship of trust and a willingness to deliver on commitments entered into," Martin said after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. The E

BELFAST( Reuters)-Northern Irish police said on Wednesday they had arrested four men in relation to the 2019 killing of journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry, whose death sparked outrage in the British-run province. The men, aged 19, 20, 21 and 33, were arrested under the Terrorism Act by officers investigating McKee's murder, police said. The New IRA, one of a small number of groups that oppose the 1998 peace accord that ended three decades of conflict between opponents and supporters of British

DUBLIN( Reuters)-Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said the prospect of the British government introducing laws to unilaterally overrule parts of the Northern Ireland protocol governing post-Brexit trade is causing tension in talks with the European Union.... " What we're hearing from some voices in London at the moment is that the British government is going to effectively pass domestic legislation to override elements of international law, which let's be blunt about it is a breach of inter

BELFAST( Reuters)-Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party( DUP) named Jeffrey Donaldson as its new leader on Tuesday, the third person in a tumultuous few weeks to lead the British province's largest party during crucial post-Brexit talks. Lawmakers in the pro-British party ousted then leader and the province's first minister Arlene Foster in late April in favour of Edwin Poots, who stepped down last week after just three weeks in the job.... Donaldson has pledged to pressure the British g

DUBLIN( Reuters)-Ryanair has dropped a requirement for South African passengers to prove their nationality before travelling by completing a test in Afrikaans, Chief Executive Michael O' Leary said after the policy drew a backlash among South Africans. The South African government said last week it was taken aback by the low cost carrier's decision to force UK-bound travelers holding the country's passport to take the test, calling the move a" backward profiling system". Afrikaans is spoken by j

DUBLIN( Reuters)-The European Commission will on Wednesday propose the removal of the vast majority of post-Brexit checks on food from Britain to Northern Ireland and a significant reduction in customs controls, Ireland's foreign minister said. The Commission will put to Britain later on Wednesday a package of measures to ease the transit of goods into the British-run region that been hindered by the barriers introduced under the Northern Ireland protocol. The sanitary and phytosanitary( SPS) ch

That is almost twice the level due to be given up by the French fishing sector as a proportion of quota value, the data showed.... " We've been robbed," Patrick Murphy, Chief Executive Officer at Irish South and West Fish Producers Organisation told the Newstalk radio station ahead of the protest." This is just unbearable and is going to lead to many boats being scrapped and put out of business.... It'll be the end of communities around our coastlines everywhere." Irish Prime Minister Micheál

DUBLIN( Reuters)-Ireland on Thursday became the latest country to cut the isolation period for some people who contract COVID-19 and relax requirements for tests as a record number of cases for the fourth time in a week overwhelmed testing facilities. With the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus accounting for 92% of all infections, the health department reported 20, 554 new cases, more than double the record in any previous wave to bring the 14-day infection rate to 2, 300 per 100