An insistence by breakaway Turkish Cypriots to cede Turkey the right to militarily intervene under a hoped-for deal reunifying ethnically divided Cyprus is "excessive and unjustified", the Mediterranean island's president said on Friday.

The head of Europol does not believe a border poll or the reunification of Ireland would spark a return of terrorism in the North.

A border poll on the reunification of Ireland should be held if Britain votes to leave the EU, Martin McGuinness said.