The head of Northern Ireland's influential Orange Order said on Sunday unio...
BELFAST - The head of Northern Ireland’s influential Orange Order said on Sunday unionists in the province should avoid staging violent protests over British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal despite feeling that they had been let down.
“There is a feeling people need to do something but I would be encouraging people that it isn’t a case for street protest at this time,” Orange Order Grand Secretary Mervyn Gibson told Reuters in a telephone interview. Gibson, a Presbyterian minister whose society holds annual parades that often raise tensions between Irish nationalist Catholics and pro-British Protestants, said there is “something wrong” when people in Northern Ireland must fill in customs forms and those in Scotland, England and Wales, the other parts of the United Kingdom, do not.
Under the proposed Brexit deal, Northern Ireland would remain in the United Kingdom’s customs area but tariffs would apply on goods crossing from mainland Britain to Northern Ireland if they were deemed to be headed further, to Ireland and the bloc’s single market. Smith’s comments followed a report by Sky News on Saturday quoting an unnamed source as saying loyalist groups had met to consider their response to the deal, including the possibility of “civil disobedience on a large scale”.
Deutschland Neuesten Nachrichten, Deutschland Schlagzeilen
Similar News:Sie können auch ähnliche Nachrichten wie diese lesen, die wir aus anderen Nachrichtenquellen gesammelt haben.
Exclusive: Northern Ireland's Orange Order discourages protests over Brexit dealThe head of Northern Ireland's influential Orange Order said on Sunday unio...
Weiterlesen »
Exclusive: Northern Ireland's Orange Order discourages protests over Brexit dealThe head of Northern Ireland's influential Orange Order said on Sunday unio...
Weiterlesen »
Brexit delay and election better than PM Johnson's deal: FarageBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage said on Sunday a short delay to Brexit in order...
Weiterlesen »
Spain closes Catalan protest group website and probes riotsA Spanish judge ordered the closure of a secretive Catalan protest group's ...
Weiterlesen »
Brexit day of reckoning: parliament to vote on Johnson's dealPrime Minister Boris Johnson puts his last-minute Brexit deal to a vote in an ex...
Weiterlesen »