Esmond Birnie: We cannot assume that North-South trade offsets the problems of the Northern Ireland Protocol

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Subscribe              Aug 22, 2021                 Esmond Birnie: We cannot assume that North-South trade offsets the problems of the Northern Ireland Protocol           It has been claimed that an apparent bonanza in terms of measured Northern Ireland-Republic of Ireland goods trade is the NI Protocol's great silver lining.                 Queues at vaccination centres in Northern Ireland for last weekend of first jabs   A major drive to boost Northern Ireland's Covid-19 vaccination rates has begun.           Owen Polley: The Northern Ireland Protocol is so serious that it should cause unionists should rethink everything   Have unionist politicians truly grasped the significance of the Northern Ireland Protocol and the High Court's judgment that the government was within its rights to impose this settlement on Northern Ireland?           In comparing Afghanistan to Northern Ireland, Peter Robinson makes a mockery of their suffering   A letter from Micheal O'Cathail:               BYGONE DAYS: The Duke of Abercorn purchases top Suffolk sheep at sale   The annual show and sale of pedigree Suffolk sheep, in conjunction with the Suffolk Sheep Society (North Ireland Branch), was held in Oxford Mart, Belfast, during this week in August 1929, and was conducted by Messrs R J Allam, Limited       OPINION: Remember the era when smoking was glamorous and encouraged?   Science has proven beyond doubt that smoking is bad for us, but there was a time when lighting up was seen as achingly cool. JOANNE SAVAGE laments the fascist smoking ban                             Ben Lowry: Unionists are more vulnerable to the fall of Stormont than republicans           Owen Polley wrote on Monday past that devolution is a disaster for unionism and always has been (see link below).                   Ben Lowry: Bigwigs should realise that there is no holiday before retirement   Whatever the exact details of the failure of Dominic Raab re a phone call to Afghanistan, I have little sympathy for him.       Four more Covid deaths in Northern Ireland, as Delta takes its toll   Four further deaths linked to Covid-19 have been reported in Northern Ireland.       Owen Polley: That Northern Ireland Protocol is so serious that unionists should rethink everything   Have unionist politicians truly grasped the significance of the Northern Ireland Protocol and the High Court's judgment that the government was within its rights to impose this settlement on Northern Ireland?                   View more news

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