World Irish and UK leaders are in Belfast to celebrate the end of Northern Ireland’s political deadlockThe leaders of the U.K. and Ireland went to Belfast Monday to meet Northern Ireland’s newly revived government and bask in a good-news moment after two years of political crisis. The ministers wasted no time before pressing London for more money to patch up Northern Ireland’s creaking public services. The Democratic Unionist Party boycotted the administration to protest post-Brexit trading arrangements that it said undermined Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom. Under power-sharing rules established as part of Northern Ireland’s peace process, the administration in Belfast must include both British unionists and Irish nationalists. Already, the Belfast administration says it’s not enough.

Source: The Herald February 05, 2024 17:21 UTC