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Good morning from the team at the News letter
Dublin and Brussels have “changed their tune” around the previously sacrosanct NI Protocol in the face of sustained unionist opposition, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has claimed. The DUP leader said the Irish government’s move towards what it called “solution mode” was a reaction to the “very strong stance” being taken by unionists.
The Assembly has passed a motion calling on the British and Irish governments to fulfil obligations under human rights laws to provide effective investigations into claims of state collusion in terrorist murders. The motion also noted “deep concern” over the failure to make progress on investigating the case of Ian Sproule, who was murdered in 1991 by the IRA in Castlederg, and reiterated opposition to plans by the British government to introduce a statute of limitations for prosecutions for Troubles offences in Northern Ireland.
A spokesman for the haulage industry has suggested that something in “the Northern Irish psyche” is allowing the Province to escape the kind of panic-buying of fuel witnessed on the UK mainland. John Martin, the policy manager for NI with the Road Haulage Association, made the comments as parts of Great Britain continued to see chaotic scenes, with motorists queuing at forecourts and pumps running dry.
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* Ruth Dudley Edwards: President Michael Higgins should say sorry for his Northern Ireland centenary snub or resign.
The row over President Michael D. Higgins’s bizarre rejection of the invitation to the ecumenical church event in Armagh has generated oceans of comment in the media, but one of the most acute analyses I’ve seen was in an email.
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