republican – Peter Geoghegan

Brexit’s Irish Problem – A Semi-Personal Reflection

By peterPosted on 29th July 201717th September 2020Posted in Northern Ireland, PoliticsTagged Brexit, DUP, Irish border, loyalist, republican, Stormont, Villiers

It is inconceivable that a vote for Brexit would not have a negative impact on the (Irish) Border, bringing cost and disruption to trade and to people’s lives. Theresa May, June 2016 Nobody wants to return to the borders of the past. Theresa May, July 2016 Around three hundred roads bisect the circuitous three-hundred-and-ten-mile border […]

Brexit and Northern Ireland

By peterPosted on 21st August 201621st August 2016Posted in Northern Ireland, Politico EuropeTagged Ardoyne, Belfast, loyalist, republican, Twelfth

BELFAST — Each year, at midnight on July 11, the Belfast skyline lights up with dozens of bonfires. Scattered across the Northern Irish capital, they are a reminder of a deep-rooted conflict that has in recent years lain largely dormant but which some fear could reignite in the wake of the United Kingdom’s vote to […]