Irish Govt to fund 50 additional medical student places at Queen’s University in Belfast. Co-funded by Dept of Further + Higher Education, Research, Innovation + Science + Dept of Health. Students will commit to applying to take up position in HSE as intern RTÉ News

Suzanne Breen “If SF needs to throw border poll dates to the republican base, let’s not all get caught up in that game" (J. Donaldson) Is this from the DUP who cynically in their election 2022 manifesto mention the poll 5 times in the Introduction on page 4 in order to scare up some support?

Where to begin? How did the DUP buy into the idea that Article 2, the Protocol/WF provision on the non-diminution of rights, "does not apply to rights-based issues"? Sure, accuse the UK Govt of mis-selling, but probably best not to do so at the cost of your own credibility.

President Higgins last night presented the 2024 Volta Lifetime Achievement Award to film director Steve McQueen at the Dublin International Film Festival

More cross-border collaboration as Irish government funds 50 medical student places in QUB. bbc.com/news/uk-northe…

President Michael D Higgins taken to hospital after feeling unwell at Áras an Uachtaráin independent.ie/irish-news/pre…

President Higgins taken to hospital after feeling unwell via RTÉ News rte.ie/news/2024/0229…

President Michael D Higgins has been taken to hospital for some tests, after he reported feeling unwell earlier today. The 82-year-old was checked out by a doctor at the Aras, but was taken to hospital as a precaution. It’s not yet known if he’ll be kept in overnight

May ⁦President of Ireland⁩ fully recover as soon as possible. President Higgins taken to hospital after feeling unwell via RTÉ News rte.ie/news/2024/0229…

How the failures of Brexit feed Radical Brexitism. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. Truss, Braverman & Anderson illustrate how as Brexit continues to fail to deliver its promises a more radical Brexitism feeds off the politics of nostalgia & grievance: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-fa…

Farming: Celebration as Irish grass-fed beef gets all-Ireland EU status bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Anyone who thought that UK constitutional law had moved beyond the era of statues being disapplied for conflict with EU law, and the whole Factortame issue was confined to legal history, was wrong. This week the High Court (NI) disapplied 10 sections of an Act passed last year …

As ever with Brexit, this is more complicated than it appears. 1/9

The Protocol was not foisted on anyone but was Boris Johnson’s proposal. When it came to a choice between no deal or a special deal for NI, Johnson was clear. (Not that his Brexit worked either). But for the avoidance of doubt or revisionism👇

"There has been a substantial shift towards Irish Unity.... that has been driven by Brexit". Jon Tonge - on his research of Alliance party members. #SundayPolitics | Mark Carruthers

These new figures along with other recent Belfast Telegraph LucidTalk polls would indicate that the criteria for calling a border poll has been met and will happen in this decade

A reminder that our Northern Irish colleagues have Erasmus... If you think the Scottish, Welsh & English should have it too, sign here 👉 europeanmovement.co.uk/erasmus-petiti…