Daniel McConnell: North risks a return to dark days of the past 

The political rhetoric in the North in recent days would lead one to conclude the lines of communications are badly in need of repair

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney 
said given what the UK had done, the Johnson government “could not be trusted”. He, to be frank, was spot on.

We woke up on Thursday to read the news that loyalist paramilitary groups had told Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Taoiseach Micheál Martin they are withdrawing support for the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

We were already only beginning to deal with the political fall-out of the British Government’s unilateral decision to extend the three-month grace period which exempts British suppliers from providing certain paperwork when shipping food to Northern Ireland supermarkets.