Saoradh, a dissident group, called for British soldiers involved in killings during the Troubles to be prosecuted KELVIN BOYES/PRESS EYELeo Varadkar has objected to a plan by the government in Westminster to use a peace agreement to shield British soldiers from being prosecuted for killings during the Troubles. The taoiseach said that the Irish government “very much disagreed” with the proposal, which British ministers are trying to impose using the Stormont House Agreement. James Brokenshire, the UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is including a statute of limitations on prosecutions relating to the Troubles in a public consultation on its Stormont House Agreement Bill. It is understood that the Irish government did not find out about the measure until after it was published. It was included despite the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs repeatedly and strongly objecting to such plans over the last…

Source: The Times November 30, 2017 00:00 UTC