Professor Anthony Coughlan of Trinity College Dublin – an Irish Nationalist – explains why anyone who respects the Good Friday Agreement should speak out against the destabilising effects of the NI Protocol. To preserve the Agreement, Nationalists and Unionists alike […]
It is vital for the Good Friday Agreement that British-Irish bilateral relations are mended, writes former Irish Ambassador and GFA negotiator Dr Ray Bassett. Reform of the NI Protocol, to the benefit of all parties involved, is the first place […]
Ireland and the EU Post Brexit is an important new book by former Irish Ambassador and Good Friday Agreement negotiator Dr Ray Bassett. CIB members will recall Dr Bassett’s excellent speech at our annual rally last year (see here for video), […]
The UK government has published its plans for implementing the Northern Ireland Protocol (the ‘backstop’). Dr Graham Gudgin explains that the light touch regime it envisages sensibly resists the EU’s ‘maximalist’ demands, but that some difficulties will be unavoidable. This […]
Professor Anthony Coughlan, Associate Professor Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin, explains why the Irish backstop is a trap designed to bind the UK to the EU with no means of escape, and what the UK can do […]
No one wants to return to a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Even less does anyone, bar a few fanatics, want to return to the days of “the Troubles”. This much is obvious. Settling the issues […]
