Arlene Foster rejected the notion that the North could have a special status STEPHEN DAVISONThe Irish government is using Brexit to force through a united Ireland by demanding a special status for the North, Arlene Foster has claimed. The DUP leader accused Leo Varadkar’s government of “using the negotiations to put forward their views on what they believe the island of Ireland should look like in the future”. Mrs Foster was speaking on BBC Radio 4 the day after Simon Coveney told an Oireachtas committee that he wanted to see a united Ireland in his political lifetime. “We’ve heard from the foreign minister of the Republic of Ireland just yesterday talking about his aspiration for a united Ireland. He is entitled to have that aspiration but he should not be using European Union negotiations to talk about those issues.…

Source: The Times November 25, 2017 00:01 UTC