Good Morning

Michael Cousins Acting Managing Editor

In the news today:

* Detectives investigating the murder of journalist Lyra McKee on 18 April 2019 in Londonderry have arrested five men.

* Covid-19 Travel Restrictions to be removed in Northern Ireland from March 18.

* Watch as Sinn Fein take part in Stormont tree planting ceremony for Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

* Doug Beattie too sick to fulfil St Patrick’s Day travel plans says UUP.

Opinion:

* Jim Allister QC: The appeal court has confirmed that the Northern Ireland Protocol dismantles the Union.

* Kate Hoey: The Belfast Agreement, with its fatal deception, is finished.

* Morning View: No wonder Baroness Hoey feels so betrayed by the outworkings of the 1998 Belfast Agreement.

* Ruth Dudley Edwards: Sinn Fein cannot erase its record of hostility towards Nato.

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