Tanaiste Micheal Martin said fiscal challenges for Northern Ireland are growing and a restored Assembly is needed to tackle them. The DUP has been blocking powersharing at Stormont for more than a year and a half in protest at the internal UK trade barriers created by Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol. The powersharing institutions in Northern Ireland cannot function without the involvement of the largest unionist party. I could go further and say we are in the final, final stages of this. He said: “I think the people of Northern Ireland deserve that.

Source: The Herald November 28, 2023 20:58 UTC