More than 10,000 pigs are exported from Ireland to Northern Ireland every week, while a quarter of all milk produced by dairies in Northern Ireland is exported to Ireland for processing.
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A substantial number of people in Northern Ireland -- and the majority in the Republic of Ireland -- wanted a united Ireland.
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It is Carlow, Ireland — not Belfast, in Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland was created when the British government partitioned Ireland.
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The British pledge to avoid a border between Northern Ireland and Ireland or a border between Northern Ireland and island of Britain.
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Northern Ireland, Ireland, Greece and Sweden are the other teams involved.
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Northern Ireland is heavily dependent on cross-border trade with Ireland.
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This article looks at the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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It is in the Republic of Ireland, not in Northern Ireland.
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One recent poll found a small majority in Northern Ireland in favor of leaving the U.K. and merging with Ireland — although the brakes may come from an Ireland wary of inheriting the weaker Northern Ireland economy.
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Peter Sheridan is CEO of Co-operation Ireland, a nonprofit that works to promote and encourage interaction, dialogue and practical collaboration between the peoples of Northern Ireland and between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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Reporting by Andy Bruce; Editing by Louise Ireland; Editing by Louise Ireland
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A. (Banca IMI) and Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Ireland plc (IntesaSP Bank Ireland).
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"This means there can be no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, or between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK," she said.
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Any sign of border controls between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, an EU member, could inflame Irish nationalists who seek a united Ireland.
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With IDA Ireland, a program that began as the industrial development authority for Ireland, their focus is now solely directed at attracting FDI into Ireland.
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Dissident Republicans believe Ireland can only be united by force, a view condemned by most people in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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The former wanted to unite Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland, while the unionists wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom.
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Cities such as Newburgh, New York; Hartford, Connecticut; and Providence, Rhode Island would be connected with Dublin, Ireland; Cork, Ireland; Shannon, Ireland; Edinburgh, Scotland; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Bergen, Norway using narrow-body Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft.
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The backstop is an arrangement designed to ensure no hard border is erected on the island of Ireland between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Britain, Ireland and the EU want to avoid physical checks on the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland that ceased with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
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Will Northern Ireland separate from the U.K. and join the Republican of Ireland?
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Destinations include Belfast, Northern Ireland; Cork, Dublin and Shannon, Ireland; and Edinburgh, Scotland.
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The Northern Ireland/Ireland border is now open; people move freely across it.
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Northern Ireland has benefited from virtually open borders with the Republic of Ireland.
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DAN DONOVAN Dungarvan, Ireland The writer is an American citizen living in Ireland.
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At the moment, goods and people flow freely between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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He described it as the basis for peace between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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But this made the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland an international one.
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The four constituent parts of the United Kingdom—England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales—play as separate entities in football and rugby, in which Northern Ireland join up with the Republic of Ireland to play as an all-Ireland side.
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They preserved their own key principles, including the need to show solidarity with Ireland and prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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They would be at ports and airports for items coming into Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom, not coming into Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland.
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The island of Ireland is famously split between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland — and this contentious fact is even reflected in the country's potato chips.
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Imposing border controls between Ireland and Northern Ireland could threaten the Good Friday Agreement, the deal that ended serious violence in Northern Ireland way back in 1999.
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Roman Catholics in British-ruled Northern Ireland have long sought to reunite with Ireland.
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They also have to decide about a land border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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It has one shop in Northern Ireland, and two in the Republic of Ireland.
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Ireland has ordered pubs — yes, pubs in Ireland — closed until at least March 29.
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And what kind of border will Northern Ireland have with Ireland, its southern neighbor?
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Ireland&aposs prime minister previously said Smith was Ireland&aposs responsibility to deal with.
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Simply that it must be distilled on the island of Ireland, including Northern Ireland.
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The European Union wants Northern Ireland to apply many of the bloc's rules, to prevent a situation in which a hard border forms between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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The AIB Q4 Brexit Sentiment Index, which questioned 500 businesses in Ireland and 200 in Northern Ireland, found that 56 percent of small and medium enterprises in Northern Ireland and 52 in the Republic of Ireland had yet to begin Brexit preparations.
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The best way to think about the Good Friday Agreement, experts said, is as a treaty meant to manage, and mend, relationships: within Northern Ireland, between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and between the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
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The details: Mr. Johnson's plan would avoid a border within Ireland by keeping Northern Ireland under the E.U.'s tariff rules — the same ones the Republic of Ireland follows.
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Northern Ireland, which has a land border with EU member Ireland, also voted to remain.
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In Ireland and Northern Ireland, abortion is permitted if the mother's life is in danger.
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The most obvious one is the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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Ireland has eight to 12 weeks' supply of virtually all medicines in Ireland, Coveney said.
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Mr Johnson's Brexit plan would push Northern Ireland ever closer to the Republic of Ireland.
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The new proposals would mean there was no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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It would continue to operate under the Ulster Bank brand in Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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Banking, trade, travel, the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland — all would possibly change overnight.
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But the Good Friday agreement calls for cooperation between Northern Ireland and Ireland, said Burke.
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But he saw nothing good coming from erecting border controls between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Exiting that way would likely require imposing a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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I was raised in the Republic of Ireland, close to the border with Northern Ireland.
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But there's no consensus on a central concern: the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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The border between Ireland and Northern Ireland remains the biggest obstacle to a Brexit deal.
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Ireland, backed up by Brussels, says checks could also unravel the 1998 Good Friday agreement that ended decades of sectarian conflict between unionists who wanted Northern Ireland to remain British and Irish nationalists who want Northern Ireland to join a united Ireland ruled from Dublin.
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GLENTIES, Ireland (Reuters) - The question of the unification of Ireland and British-ruled Northern Ireland will inevitably arise if Britain leaves the European Union without a divorce deal on Oct.
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Britain, Ireland and the EU want to avoid physical checks on the border between Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland that ceased with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
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The agreement also set out the principle that Northern Ireland would remain part of the United Kingdom until a majority of people in both Northern Ireland and Ireland wished otherwise.
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In essence, a "backstop" is aimed at preventing a 'hard' border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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"A historic and great day for Ireland and a hopeful one for Northern Ireland," Mordaunt said.
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Mr. Murphy's farm straddles the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, with access to both jurisdictions.
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Wind warnings are in place for Ireland and Northern Ireland Thursday, according to the Met Office.
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Moreover, if Facebook Ireland Holdings paid less for the rights than it charges Facebook Ireland Ltd.
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In the 12th century, the Normans invaded Ireland, beginning the reign of the English in Ireland.
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Johnson's Brexit would leave Northern Ireland more integrated with Ireland than with the rest of Britain.
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Northern Ireland has an open border with the Republic of Ireland, a member of the bloc.
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At first, even Sean couldn't locate where the Republic of Ireland ended and Northern Ireland began.
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Read about the border between North Ireland and Ireland and why it's holding up the process.
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Sinn Féin is a political party that represents both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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In addition, there would be a customs border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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And it would avoid checks on goods moving between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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So what do Ireland and Northern Ireland want as Britain heads toward the next Brexit deadline?
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Northern Ireland is part of the UK, but the Republic of Ireland is an independent country.
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"[Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Great Britain] all share the common objective of wanting to preserve the common travel area, and an open border on the island of Ireland," he said recently.
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The technology sector in Ireland directly employs over 105,000 people, with 75 percent employed in multinational companies, according to ICT Ireland, which represents the foreign-direct-investment technology companies in Ireland.
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Johnson has proposed a new system for customs between Northern Ireland, Ireland, and the rest of the United Kingdom, in order to prevent a hard border on the Island of Ireland.
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NORTHERN IRELAND — Business owners on the border between Nothern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland fear they could be just weeks away from an economic shock that could wreck their livelihoods.
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The issue of how the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland will fare is particularly sensitive given the decades of violence over whether it should be part of Britain or Ireland.
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Ireland says checks could undermine the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace after more than 3,600 died in a three-decade conflict between unionists who wanted Northern Ireland to remain British and Irish nationalists who want Northern Ireland to join a united Ireland ruled from Dublin.
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With regard to the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom acknowledges the unique situation on the island of Ireland and has made significant commitments to avoid a hard border.
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Human rights violations of Catholics helped fuel three decades of violence in Northern Ireland between Irish nationalists seeking a united Ireland and mainly Protestant unionists who wanted Northern Ireland to remain British.
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Northern Ireland is also troubled by Brexit: Britain's economic, trade and political relations with Ireland depend heavily on both belonging to the EU. This helped underpin the peace process in Northern Ireland.
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Over 3,600 died in the three-decade conflict between unionists who wanted Northern Ireland to remain British and Irish nationalists who want Northern Ireland to join a united Ireland ruled from Dublin.
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In practice, this would mean:Two new borders: a customs border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and a regulatory border in the Irish sea between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
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Ireland is at the center of the Brexit debate because the United Kingdom has a land border on the Irish mainland between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to the south.
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Before Parliament's Northern Ireland affairs select committee, a former senior European Union customs official, Michael Lux, warned of the likelihood of checks at the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, something Mrs.
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Today, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland includes England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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"Alaia and Ireland, they're in the wedding," she said of both her daughter (Ireland) and niece (Alaia).
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But the move could create obstacles to business between Britain&aposs Northern Ireland and EU-member Ireland.
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And it has serious consequences for its only overland border — the one between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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"This guy isn't even from Ireland, he's from Northern Ireland," shouted Taylor from press conference line-up.
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Trade body Insurance Ireland and development agency IDA Ireland welcomed the decision by Bermuda-registered XL Group.
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What women did for Ireland, and what Ireland has since done for women, deserve a fuller accounting.
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Tusk responded Tuesday by accusing Johnson of seeking to reestablish a border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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The outstanding question of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland is crucial for Brexit, Kneissl said.
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Ireland As of March 16, there are no entry restrictions in Ireland, according to the Irish government.
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The biggest snag: how the plan averts a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, where Mrs.
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In Northern Ireland, it's the largest party representing nationalists, meaning those who believe in a united Ireland.
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Unrest in Northern Ireland could resume if the border with Ireland, a European Union member, is restricted.
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Economically, Northern Ireland, the poorest region in Britain, has become increasingly integrated with the Republic of Ireland.
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The contentious issue of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland is coming due.
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Few countries are blessed with such an abundance of golf riches as Ireland and Northern Ireland are.
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Farmers in Northern Ireland send their fresh milk south to be pasteurized in the Republic of Ireland.
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The boundary between the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland runs along the top of Cuilcagh Mountain.
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But an open border between Northern Ireland and Ireland became an indispensable part of the peace process.
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They also make avoiding a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland extraordinarily difficult.
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But Ireland says checks could undermine the 1998 Good Friday agreement, which brought peace after more than 3,600 died in a three-decade conflict between unionists who wanted Northern Ireland to remain British and Irish nationalists who want Northern Ireland to join a united Ireland ruled from Dublin.
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Europe, siding with its loyal member state Ireland, has already stated that when Brexit talks begin, Britain must address the crucial Irish demands: no hard border between the Republic of Ireland and British-ruled Northern Ireland, and a continuation of the open travel area between Ireland and Britain.
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WHO BUYS IN NORTHERN IRELAND In general, there are few foreign home buyers in Northern Ireland, with most overseas buyers coming from other parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Mr. Cooke said.
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Less noticed has been the recent election in Northern Ireland, which handed major gains to Sinn Fein, a nationalist party that has called for Northern Ireland to leave Britain and reunite with Ireland.
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"Ireland will probably be happier with the draw," the former Ireland captain Brian O'Driscoll said, summarizing for television.
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It's because both sides want to prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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She noted that it agreed last month to avoid regulations in Northern Ireland diverging from EU member Ireland.
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Poland recently suggested, albeit unsuccessfully, downgrading the EU's insistence on an invisible border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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Abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland — which forms part of the United Kingdom — and the Republic of Ireland.
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It already shares power in Northern Ireland, and some predict it will, in time, lead Ireland to reunification.
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That agreement included greater cooperation between Northern Ireland and Ireland, which meant softening the border between the two.
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He said the two sides were discussing how to avoid a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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One of the most difficult problems is how to avoid a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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The main sticking point remains the border between EU member Ireland and Northern Ireland, which belongs to Britain.
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EU SAYS: Wants to avoid new "hard" border between British Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland disrupting peace.
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Her phase one deal guaranteed there would be no border in Ireland, or between Ireland and Great Britain.
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In addition to the examples you gave, Northern Ireland could be sold by the United Kingdom to Ireland.
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A member of the U.K., Northern Ireland shares a restriction-free border with the Republic of Ireland now.
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In Northern Ireland, the political party Sinn Fein has already called for a referendum on a united Ireland.
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Once again, the issue centers on the border between Northern Ireland (a constituent of the U.K.) and Ireland.
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He said most boats based in Northern Ireland normally fish off the coast in the Republic of Ireland.
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One of the biggest sticking points: avoiding the creation of a physical border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Leaks about the draft agreement have concentrated on the issue of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Other countries that have consent-based legislation include England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Belgium, and Germany.
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Another truck driver from Northern Ireland, Eamonn Harrison, 22, has also been charged in Ireland in the case.
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There are 7,193 pubs in Ireland, not including Northern Ireland, according to AIB Merchant Services' 2018 Pubs Outlook.
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According to the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland, some 700 U.S. companies employ over 150,000 people in Ireland.
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Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom, while Ireland has been an independent nation since 1921.
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Gibson seemed to be referring to arguments that the Northern Ireland economy would flourish within a united Ireland.
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You enter the front door in the Republic of Ireland and exit the rear door in Northern Ireland.
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That agreement included greater cooperation between Northern Ireland and Ireland — which meant softening the border between the two.
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One of them is the issue of how to avoid a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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A NEW TOUR OF NORTHERN IRELAND Hoping to extend interest in Ireland beyond St. Patrick's Day, Driftwood Irish Journeys of Discovery has put together a new Northern Island Tour that focuses on Northern Ireland.
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In the euro zone bond market, Ireland has been hardest hit; Britain is Ireland's biggest trading partner, and the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is a key issue in negotiations.
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One of the biggest fears for those in Derry and across Northern Ireland is that Brexit will mean the re-establishment of a hard, militarized border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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In the plan, sent to Juncker on Wednesday, there would be two new borders after Brexit: a customs border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, and a regulatory border between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
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Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K., shares a border with Ireland, which is part of the EU. Critics of Brexit have raised concerns that a deal might require imposing a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, upsetting the agreement that has maintained peace for over two decades.
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A 2016 study of its clients found 1,181 women from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland who were able to successfully obtain abortion pills between 2010 and 2012 by shipping them to Northern Ireland.
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It also rejected the idea of an effective customs border in the Irish Sea that separates England, Wales and Scotland from Ireland and Northern Ireland - something advocated by Ireland - as "not constitutionally or economically viable".
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The lenders - Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Banks , permanent tsb, KBC Bank Ireland and RBS's Ulster Bank, are ready to respond promptly to any further changing needs for customers, Banking and Payments Federation Ireland said.
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Mallon was a major political figure in Northern Ireland during the three decades of violence between Catholic nationalists seeking union with Ireland and Protestant unionists wanting Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom.
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Ireland was previously profiled alongside his now-wife, Laila Ireland, in a 2015 New York Times Op-ed documentary.
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After a no-deal Brexit, Ireland and Northern Ireland would be in different customs, regulatory and food-safety regimes.
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Three years on, Northern Ireland is inching closer to holding a referendum of its own — on reunification with Ireland.
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Enda Kenny, the prime minister of the Republic of Ireland wants to keep the border with Northern Ireland open.
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This Government will not put in place infrastructure, checks, or controls at the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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A disagreement on a fallback plan for the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland is a key sticking point.
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The rest of Britain would continue its Brexit while Northern Ireland and Ireland would resume their previous customs arrangements.
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EU SAYS: It wants to avoid a "hard" border between British Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland disrupting peace.
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But, in order to lower the tax rate, Google Ireland Limited pays billions of royalties to Google Ireland Holdings.
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However, negotiations usually drag on for years and it would likely mean border controls between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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The ports of call in the eight-day northern cruise include filming locations in Iceland, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Goods crossing the border from Ireland into Northern Ireland would not be covered by the new import tariff regime.
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Following are some of the key clauses from the Brexit deal's so-called "protocol" on Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Neither the UK nor Ireland want new border infrastructure, amid concerns it could stoke sectarian tensions in Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland does not want a hard border with the Republic of Ireland, a member of the European Union.
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The result: trade disruptions, tariffs and friction that could reinvigorate conflict between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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A hard Brexit is in no one's interest, especially with respect to the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Topic A is finding a compromise on the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, a major Brexit sticking point.
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Ireland Four men have been arrested in Northern Ireland over last year's murder of Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee.
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An old customs post in Northern Ireland faces a farm in County Armagh heading toward the Republic of Ireland.
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Standing in Northern Ireland just outside the Republic of Ireland, on a road heading into the town of Clones.
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Banking, trade, travel, food, medicines, the fluid border between Ireland and Northern Ireland — all would be thrown into flux.
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Ireland was 20, 30 years behind the rest of the world, and Aran was 20, 30 years behind Ireland.
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" "On Brexit, we have made progress but huge and serious divergence remain in particular on Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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In 123, British Parliament passed an act that split the island into two entities: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
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Ordinarily, those profits would be taxed in Ireland at the relatively low rate of 12.5 percent but — thanks to an agreement between Apple and Ireland — the vast majority of profits in Ireland were attributed to a "head office" not located in any country and therefore not subject to taxes in Ireland or anywhere.
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For a potential solution, Xing pointed to Britain's idea of a 'soft' border with Ireland after Brexit, which aims to continue a free flow of goods and people between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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The U.K.'s border on the mainland of Ireland is the central sticking point with the EU insisting that there can be no return to a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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CARRICKCARNON, Ireland (Reuters) - Anti-Brexit campaigners protested at six different points of the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland on Saturday, fearing a return of customs checks could risk peace, jobs and their way of life.
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LONDON — Abortion rights campaigners plan to fly a drone carrying abortion pills from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland.
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The Belfast, Ireland-born graduate architect worked in Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Austria before setting up shop in Australia.
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Insurance Ireland, the representative body for the domestic and international insurance sector in Ireland, welcomed the decision by XL Group.
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In this corner of Ireland, close to the border with Northern Ireland, conifers seem to be springing up all around.
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A key pillar of the Good Friday Agreement was eliminating physical barriers and security checkpoints between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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We mistakenly referred to Ireland as part of the United Kingdom; only Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.
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Dublin wants a written guarantee that there will be no hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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And that represents such a threat to Ireland into the future and to the island of Ireland as a whole.
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Goods now flow freely between Ireland and Northern Ireland, where peace from bloody sectarian fighting is barely 20 years old.
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The D.U.P. would rather kill the backstop and risk a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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The game was broadcast live in both Northern Ireland, where Derry is based, and Ireland, the home of Derry's league.
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Since then, the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland has essentially disappeared with the removal of checkpoints between the countries.
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The line was drawn in the early 1920s, dividing newly independent Ireland from the six counties of British Northern Ireland.
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The GFA is a legal truce that restored peace at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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Overall, we recognise that our proposals will man changes from the situation that prevails in Ireland and Northern Ireland now.
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Northern Ireland shares a land border with its southern neighbour, the Republic of Ireland, which remains an EU member state.
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Northern Ireland shares a land border with its southern neighbor, the Republic of Ireland, which remains an EU member state.
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Of particular concern to politicians and locals is the status of the border between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.
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A fundamental pillar of the Good Friday Agreement that ended the conflict involved greater cooperation between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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The backstop is aimed at keeping an open border between EU member Ireland and British-ruled Northern Ireland after Brexit.
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President Trump said Wednesday at a news conference in Ireland Brexit will work out "very well" and so would the border issues it poses for Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is is part of the United Kingdom.
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DUNDALK, Ireland (Reuters) - The European Union's Brexit negotiator said on Monday that he is confident Brussels and London can agree on the right solution for avoiding the return of a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Conflict over the British-ruled province of Northern Ireland killed thousands from the late 1960s until the Good Friday peace agreement in 1998, mostly in Northern Ireland but also in mainland Britain and the Republic of Ireland.
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Facebook Ireland Holdings in turn leased the rights to exploit the Facebook platform to its own subsidiary, Facebook Ireland Ltd, in return for a fee, accounts for Facebook Ireland Ltd, filed with the Irish company registry, show.
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The document did not touch on the crucial central issue for Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit: How Ireland can defend the single market without imposing physical infrastructure on the border with Northern Ireland.
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New checks will be imposed at two borders (between Northern Ireland and the Republic, and along the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.)Northern Ireland will be exempt from EU VAT rules and custom codes.
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Varadkar is due to play a major role in the Brexit talks, telling EU leaders whether Ireland believes sufficient progress has been made on the future border between EU-member Ireland and Britain's province of Northern Ireland.
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The bloc's priority is to support EU member Ireland and prevent a return to the 30 years of violence between mostly Protestant unionists who want to keep Northern Ireland British and mainly Catholic nationalists seeking a united Ireland.
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He also said he had spoken with Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland to ensure that a British departure from the European Union, of which Ireland is a member, would not endanger the fragile peace in Northern Ireland.
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