Flags report: ‘Solutions difficult when Sinn Fein determined to remove every trace of Britishness’

Dec 2, 2021

Michael Cousins

Acting Managing Editor

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Welcome to your morning news update.

News:

* The solution to conflict on flags and culture is very hard to come by when Sinn Fein ‘campaigns to remove every trace of Britishness’ from NI, the DUP has said.

* The Assembly has passed legislation that makes it an offence to deliberately inflict injury or harm to service animals in Northern Ireland.

* France’s minister for Europe has called on the European Union to take retaliatory measures against Britain if there is no resolution to the post-Brexit row over fishing licences by December 10.

Opinion:

* Jim Allister: Flags and identity report gives new lease of life into discredited ideas.

* Morning View: It was right to establish flags and identity commission but its prospect of consensus was always slim.

Business:

* Northern Ireland Game of Thrones Studio Tour opens in February 2022.

* Invest Northern Ireland’s Kevin Holland to step down from his role as Chief Executive Officer.


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