Post Office runs out of Irish passport forms following Brexit

The Assembly is meeting today for the first time to debate the implications for Northern Ireland of the referendum vote.

Sinn Fein, already in power in Northern Ireland’s 9-year-old unity government and positioned to become the Republic of Ireland’s top opposition party, insists that the hundreds of thousands of Irish citizens who live in Northern Ireland must be given a chance to vote for their own United Kingdom escape.

We don’t know whether or not the author and editors at De Standaard were aware of the details and context of the photo they used, quite misleadingly, to illustrate British demand for Irish passports. As a result, it has led to both Nicola Sturgeon and Martin McGuinness – speaking for Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively – to discuss the possibility of splitting away from England and Wales, who both voted in the majority to leave the union.

When the queen visited Northern Ireland in 2014, she stopped by the set of “Game of Thrones”.

“Unfortunately however, votes in England and Wales now mean the 440,707 people in the North who voted to Remain in the European Union are being dragged unwillingly out of the EU”. Can it be decided on one basic question, though?

“As European citizens, like all of us, they have the right to travel freely, work freely and study anywhere in the European Union, from the Algarve to Lapland, from Athens to Galway”. That means that Republican and Unionist citizens voted for that position: Catholic, Protestants, and those who have no political or religious affiliation.

The Irish state agency in charge of attracting foreign investment has been in touch with firms considering relocating from London for months and could now reap the benefits post-Brexit, its chief executive said on Friday.

“We in Sinn Féin fear that in future negotiations and in the eventual case of a Brexit, the British government won’t fight for farmers in the North”. If and when that happens, we’ll talk border polls.

“Quite a number of nationalists were relaxed with the constitutional arrangements but they will be reviewing this in terms of protecting their European identity – what they need as a reassurance is certainty, but there is none”. My advice is to take as many [passports] as you can’.

The Northern Ireland Secretary has rejected suggestions Stormont or Holyrood could veto Brexit, insisting the parliament in Westminster has the final say. And all of that now is being placed in jeopardy as a result of this decision.

Ms Villiers has insisted the criteria for triggering a border poll has not been met.