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A protester poses in mock gallows during a rally held in central London this month against the Iranian regime (Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Picture: Aaron Chown/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

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Boris Johnson

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Foreign Secretary Liz Truss leaving 10 Downing Street, London, following a Cabinet meeting.

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"Freedom for Raman Pratasevich" (Roman Protashevich) is written on a protest wagon in front of the Embassy of Belarus in Berlin, Germany, Monday (Photo: Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP).

Forced landing of Belarus flight: ‘state-sponsored aviation piracy'

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen

EU invocation of Article 16 'ill-judged' and 'wrong' says Nicola Sturgeon

A man cleans the street in front of 10 Downing Street, London. The UK and European Union are on the threshold of striking a post-Brexit trade deal. An announcement is expected on Christmas Eve, but talks have continued through the night on the details of an agreement picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Brexit deal between UK and EU could be announced within hours

UK and EU close to finalising Brexit deal - with announcement from Boris Johnson...

An EU flag and a Union flag held by a demonstrator is seen with Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) and the Houses of Parliament. Picture: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images

Brexit talks 'need to move' next week if deal is going to happen

New business plan launched to help companies ahead of Brexit in January 2021 picture: JPI Media

New business plan to launch for helping companies when UK breaks from EU

EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, wearing an EU flag-themed facemask due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, leaves a hotel in London. Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

Post-Brexit trade deal 'likely', says key Europe minister

UK Justice Secretary Robert Buckland

UK Justice Secretary ‘will resign’ if international law broken over Brexit

UK ‘unlikely’ to be on Ireland’s travel green list along with USA

UK ‘unlikely’ to be on Ireland’s travel green list

Boris Johnson must change course to avoid an economically disastrous no-deal Brexit (Picture: Andrew Parsons/No 10 Downing Street)

UK economy cannot take no-deal Brexit on top of Covid – leader comment

Orange Order grand master Edward Stevenson. Picture: TSPL

Orange Order voices 'serious concerns' about Irish language proposals

More than 900,000 Irish travel documents were issued in 2019. Picture: Sarah-Rose\cropped\CC\Flicker

Nearly one million Irish passports issued in 2019 following surge in demand

Scottish secretary Alister Jack

Boris Johnson undermined by Scottish secretary Alister Jack over Brexit border c...

Scottish minister Fiona Hyslop and Irish Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney announced the joint initiative. Pictures: John Devlin and PA

Scottish government in talks with Ireland to 'review' future collaboration

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar

Brexit: MEPs reject UK border plan as Dublin hardens its stance

The next few weeks are crucial for Boris Johnson and the future of the UK. Picture: AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali

Brexit Q&A: The questions that need to be resolved before deadline day

Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson pledges 'good offer' on border after Dublin rejects plans

Simon Coveney

Ireland: Brexit breakthrough 'no closer', with 'wide gap' between Johnson and EU

Scotland has threatened action if Irish vessels continue to operate in the zone around Rockall. Picture: Andy Strangeway

Ireland's deputy leader has called for calm over fisheries dispute with Scotland

US president Donald Trump. Picture: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Donald Trump to visit Ireland at end of June UK trip

Theresa May and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar released a joint statement announcing new talks with Northern Irish parties

Fresh Northern Ireland talks in wake of Lyra McKee's death

Theresa May. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Brexit: Theresa May under pressure to win concessions from EU

Ireland's deputy premier Simon Coveney.

Lesley Riddoch: BBC attitude towards Irish politicians highlights Westminster’s ...

A sign regarding Brexit and the change Britain's exit from the European Union may have on the Ireland-Northern Ireland border is seen near by a road on the outskirts of border town of Clones in County Monaghan

Brexit: Time for wishful thinking is over, Irish Government warns UK

The first drawing of the proposed bridge to connect Scotland and Northern Ireland. PIC: Professor Alan Dunlop.

DUP MP backs plan to for bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit shows Prime Minister Theresa May answering a question during the weekly question and answer session. Picture; Getty

Theresa May vows she will not allow Brussels to break up UK

A sign for an abandoned Customs Facilitation Office at the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland near the village of Killeen Picture; PA

Ireland signal support for extending the UK's Brexit transition period

Campaigners and dogs join yesterdays Wooferendum March in London to demand a new Brexit vote. Picture: PA

Brexit: Hopes of breakthrough rise as Ireland talks up deal chances

DUP Leader Arlene Foster. Picture; PA

Concern raised over DUP's role in Brexit negotiations

The two proposed bridge routes. PIC: Professor Alan Dunlop.

New images of bridge to link Scotland with Northern Ireland released

Pope Francis walking with Ireland's President Michael Higgins and wife Sabina Coyne at the Aras an Uachtarain Presidential Residence. Picture: Getty

Pope speaks of '˜pain and shame' on first visit to Ireland

Ireland hails UK move towards ‘much softer Brexit’

Workers wait to start counting votes at Dublin's RDS. Picture: PA Wire

Exit polls suggest landslide vote for reform in Irish abortion referendum

Prime Minister Theresa May being interviewed by Andrew Marr for the BBC1 current affairs programme, The Andrew Marr Show.

Theresa May's Brexit tactics to be put to the test as negotiations resume

The UK's Department for Exiting the EU have been criticised for arrangements made to allow MSPs to read Brexit analyis papers. Picture: Free Image/Pixabay

MSPs blast Westminster's '˜insulting' offer to see Brexit analyis

Britons can be eligible for an Irish passport if a parent or grandparent was born in Ireland. Picture: Getty Images

Brexit: More than a fifth of Irish passports claimed by UK residents

A vandalised 'Welcome to Northern Ireland' sign at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in Middletown, Co. Armagh. (Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire)

Brian Wilson: Why Brexit spat shows it's crazy to create new Irish borders

The Irish border has become a key Brexit negotiating issue. Picture: Getty Images

Irish backed by EU as Brexit '˜moment of truth' nears
Brexit talks are approaching a 'moment of truth', the European Union's lead negotiator has said amid warnings from the Irish government that trade talks could ...

Dublin says Â£40bn for EU won't stop veto

Theresa May has said she does not want a return to "the borders of the past" in Ireland. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Brexit: UK ministers propose '˜unmonitored' Irish border post

EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, right, and British Secretary of State David Davis. Picture; AP

Ireland wants sea border with UK after Brexit

Britons can be eligible for an Irish passport if a parent or grandparent was born in Ireland. Picture: Getty Images

Post-Brexit surge in demand for Irish passports

Leo Varadkar won 60 per cent of the votes. Picture: PA

Leo Varadkar becomes new leader of Fine Gael

Medics from Medecins Sans Frontieres treat one of the migrants rescued from the Mediterranean. Picture: Contributed

Hundreds feared dead as migrant boat capsizes

Irish agriculture marine and food minister Simon Coveney. Picture: Getty

Ireland to cash in on global agriculture demand

Irish farmers already export £198m worth of cattle and calves to the UK, but want to sell more. Picture: Getty

Irish breeders target exports to UK

UK Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson. Picture: PA

EU’s Ciolos defends ‘flexibility’ of new CAP

Argument over CAP reform goes down to the wire

In a boost for the Scottish fishing industry, the negotiators have rubber-stamped plans for an end to fisheries micromanagement by Brussels bureaucrats. Picture: AFP

Historic EU fisheries deal a boost for Scots boats

EU agree to more regional control of fishing

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Paterson defends flexibility of CAP deal

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