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Euros 2020 Feature: Is Footballing Karma Acting In Reverse At These Unique Euros?

Rory Morrow writes in this feature focusing on the many dynamics at play at the year-late Euros. Many of the best scenes from the European Championships have so far originated from an incident of misfortune, extreme bad luck. This is karma reversed, are the footballing gods who control the fate of our beloved game repenting on themselves?

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Editorial: Arlene Foster’s Resignation as DUP leader and NI First Minister, makes for an uncertain near future

Discontent within mainstreasm unionism with the DUP leadership was widely known of. Yet the rapidity and suddenness with which Mrs. Foster’s leadership of the DUP and indeed of Northern Ireland was ended, within the space of 24 hours, was something of a story in and of itself. Editor Peter Donnelly offers a reflection on the week since Monday 26th April which would mark the beginning of the end for Mrs. Foster’s political tenure.

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NI’s Way Out Of Covid: Stick With The Step-By-Step Approach

There is no doubting that any continuation of restrictions is highly frustrating as the thirteenth month of living under some form of lockdown or restriction approaches. Hope is near with the highly successful UK-wide roll out of the Covid vaccination programme. Yet that hopeful anticipation of something brighter on the horizon is persistently defeated by the recklessness of individuals who take it upon themselves to invoke their exemption to the law. Editor Peter Donnelly writes.

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The Gown Queen's University Belfast 221 Views 0 Comments 8 min read

STATE OF THE NATION: CLASH IN CONGRESS STRENGTHENS THE US’ BITTER DIVISIONS

It was not in Central Africa, on the Asian continent or in Eastern Europe but at the United States’ Congress – the epicentre of American democracy which has long prided itself on being the very embodiment of global democracies to which all nations should aspire – where an orchestrated attack on democracy occurred. President Trump’s presidential term and his exit from Office was never going to go off without fuss but January’s events have been completely unprecedented

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UK-EU Trade Talks: A Whimsical Withdrawal risks Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland has been part and parcel of the Brexit process, from its inception in 2016. After exhaustive negotiations in 2019, the Conservative Government, headed by Boris Johnson, reached a notable consensus, with the Withdrawal Agreement. The UK left the EU on January 31st 2020. However, less than a year on and in the midst of a pandemic further wrangling in the ranks both – UK and EU – has produced significant coverage and debate over the UK’s Internal Market Bill which would seek to give Government Ministers power to unilaterally alter fundamental parts of the Withdrawal Agreement including, what is viewed as the ‘Holy Grail’ clause, the Northern Ireland Protocol which would see NI abide by the EU’s Customs Code to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland. NI Unionists have claimed that it would damage NI’s access to the Great Britain market, NI’s largest economic partner, while Nationalists claim the Protocol agreed is the bare minimum to secure certainty for border communities, businesses and the all-island economy. The UK Government has advised that the bill is necessary to secure their recently attained position as a non-EU independent nation.

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