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☆ Leader of Northern Ireland’s main pro-union party resigns after police charges
  + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Northern Ireland’s main pro-union party, is stepping down after he was charged with “allegations of an historical nature,” the DUP announced on Friday. “Detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland arrested and charged a 61-year-old man for non-recent sexual offences,” the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) statement said. Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill said Friday her “priority” was to “continue to provide the leadership the public expect and deserve” following Donaldson’s resignation. Under his leadership, the DUP refused to participate in Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government in protest over post-Brexit trading rules. The DUP announced on Friday it had unanimously appointed Gavin Robinson as interim party leader.
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☆ Northern Ireland's 'peace babies' desperate for more progress
  + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Amanda Ferguson | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Born in December 1998, Moore is one of Northern Ireland's so-called "peace babies", the generation born just after the Good Friday Agreement was signed and considered the embodiment of hope for the region's post-conflict future. said Moore, a social policy and communications worker from Derry, referring to the barriers besieged residents erected to protect themselves. Stormont (the Northern Irish assembly) not being up and running is ridiculous," said Jessica Keough from Bangor, County Down, who is from a unionist background but sees herself as Irish and Northern Irish, "and not British at all." More than 90% of schools in Northern Ireland remain segregated along religious lines, as is housing in many areas. "There is something special about being a peace baby so people born around (that time) feel protective about the peace and the Good Friday Agreement."
☆ Explainer: What is the Good Friday Agreement and when was it signed?
  + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
Feb 23 (Reuters) - The Good Friday Agreement largely ended the "Troubles", three decades of violence that had racked Northern Ireland since the late 1960s. It was signed on April 10, 1998 - which fell that year on Good Friday in the Christian Easter holiday. The deal was formally two interlinked agreements: a treaty between the British and Irish governments and an agreement between the Northern Irish parties. "North-south" bodies were created to encourage cooperation between Northern Ireland and Ireland, while "east-west" institutions linked Britain and Ireland. Overall, Northern Ireland has enjoyed peace for much of the 25 years since the agreement was signed, with only a small number of splinter groups involved in sporadic attacks.
☆ N.Ireland unionists face historic choice as EU, UK near protocol deal
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Amanda Ferguson Conor Humphries | Amanda Ferguson | Conor Humphries | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
While the UK as a whole voted to leave the EU in the 2016 Brexit referendum, Northern Ireland voted 56% to 44% to remain. But if there is no agreement unionists can support, Northern Ireland will continue to have no functioning political institutions, he said, "and I don't think that is an outcome that anybody really wants". "If the choice is Sinn Fein rule or even imperfect British rule I would certainly take British rule before I would take Sinn Fein rule," said TUV leader Jim Allister. Completing the intense pressure Donaldson is under from all sides as the defining moment of his leadership nears is the more liberal Ulster Unionist Party, ready to cast itself as the unionist party of pragmatism if the DUP's boycott escalates. What will ultimately protect Northern Ireland's place in the United Kingdom is if Northern Ireland works."
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