Ms O’Neill accused Ms Bradley of a “staggering ignorance” of the Belfast Agreement following a British parliamentary reply she gave to Labour MP Conor McGinn, who is a native of south Armagh. This prompted confusion, considering that such Irish citizens voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum and in the 1998 Belfast Agreement referendum. “Any decisions on a Border poll would be made in line with the Belfast Agreement,” he added. This would be the case under the Belfast Agreement, he said, “because it is a bilateral international agreement affecting two jurisdictions”. He said that under the Belfast Agreement, a Border referendum must take place on the same day North and South.

Source: The Irish Times April 05, 2019 20:15 UTC