MEPS extend funding for Irish peace projects

MEPs voted today to prolong a multimillion-pound international fund to foster cross-border projects supporting the peace process in the North.

The International Fund for Ireland (IFI) was set up in 1986 by Dublin and London to fulfil an Anglo-Irish Agreement pledge that “the two governments shall co-operate to promote the economic and social development of those areas of both parts of Ireland which have suffered most severely from the consequences of the instability of recent years”.