‘Northern Ireland Can Never Trust the Tories” – Irish Filmmaker

The offer was made as part of the deal to restore the North of Ireland’s Stormont but earlier the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government had made “huge commitments” as part of the deal, without revealing a specific number. Irish filmmaker Sean Murray discusses how the Northern Ireland had changed in the last three years without a functioning parliament. Sputnik: In the three years since Ireland had a functioning Parliament, what has changed in the North of Ireland? Sean Murray: I think Brexit has re-energised the question of Irish unification and has for the first time platform discussions between modern unionists about how a new Ireland could be envisaged. I also think that unionists have come to realise that those who are subscribed to an Irish identity will never allow unionism to resort to its sectarian policies in the past. One of the main reasons why the assembly was pulled by Martin McGuinness was the DUPs refusal to grant an Irish Language Act. That was something that was negotiated as part of the St. Andrews Agreement. Sputnik: From your point of view, what are the first things that the newly reopened Stormont parliament needs to address in Northern… Read full this story

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