Dublin called out over ‘hypocrisy’ of its new cross border customs checks

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Subscribe              Nov 14, 2021           Top Stories A round up of the most popular news stories this week.           Dublin called out over 'hypocrisy' of its new cross border customs checks           The Irish government has been challenged to explain how it intends to carry out what it suggested was impossible - reintroducing customs checks on the land border with Northern Ireland.                 Group behind poster on Enniskillen Cenotaph respond to bomb victims   The organisation which erected a republican poster on the Enniskillen Cenotaph only days after the anniversary of the Poppy Day Bombing at the location has acknowledged that their actions were "insensitive" to the victims.           Protests to be held on Irish border telling Boris Johnson to 'back off' on Article 16   A series of demonstrations will be held along the Irish border next week telling Boris Johnson to "back off" on plans to trigger Article 16.           Sandra Chapman: Listen to the complications of our climate change   Cop26 was an odd title to give to something as important as the matters the experts have been debating in Glasgow - mostly how to change the way we all live in the decades ahead.           Owen Polley: Woke theories on history, gender and race get 'stormy applause'   In The Gulag Archipelago, the dissident Russian writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, described a tribute to Stalin that took place at a Communist Party conference in the Moscow district.           Austin Currie remembered for his 'fearless, immense courage' at funeral   Austin Currie has been remembered for his "fearless, immense courage" and as a giant of the civil rights movement.           The shortage of drivers boosts the case for rail a tunnel to Northern Ireland   A letter from John Barstow:           BBC weatherman Owain Wyn Evans upbeat after raising £2m with 24-hour drumathon   BBC weatherman Owain Wyn Evans has completed his 24-hour drumathon for Children In Need, raising more than £2 million for the charity.           Ben Lowry: Essays in 2010 about Northern Ireland on its 2021 centenary foresaw province staying in UK but did not foresee change from within   In summer 2010, this newspaper ran 60 essays called Union 2021, in which pro Union contributors were asked to look a decade ahead and envisage Northern Ireland on its centenary.                 View more news

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