Fears for cross-border health agreements post-Brexit
A Donegal Cancer campaigner says action needs to be taken now to ensure that Brexit does not impact health agreements between hospitals north and south of the border. Two agreements are currently in place between Letterkenny University Hospital and Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry. The two service level agreements are in…
Carthy calls for Ireland to take stronger stance in Brexit talks
The government needs to take a stronger stance when it comes to negotiating Ireland’s interests during the Brexit negotiations. That’s the warning from the Sinn Fein North West MEP Matt Carthy. He says Ireland’s position has to be pressed much more strongly during the Brexit talks. Yesterday MEPs rejected a…
Brexit briefing in Cavan
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will be the keynote speaker at a Brexit briefing on Tuesday, July 11th, in the Hotel Kilmore in Cavan. The event, starting at 7pm, will be hosted by Fianna Fail TD for Cavan Monaghan, Brendan Smith, who is also chairman of the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee.…
“Britain is full”: Manchester-native in Sligo says Brexit was inevitable
A UK man living in Sligo says if he had voted in the referendum last he would have been in favour of leaving the EU. Peter Wilcock, a well-known photographer in Sligo told North West Today that he feels the North of England – where he comes from – never…
Concern over French Brexit comments on border
A North West MEP has secured a meeting with the French agriculture representative that called for a hard border to be imposed between the North and the Republic post-Brexit. The comments by the rep who is with one of France’s biggest lobby groups known as the French Chamber of Agriculture.…
IFA welcomes the appointment of Brexit Minister Simon Coveney
The head of the Irish Farmers Association in Donegal has welcome the appointment of a Minister with responsibility for Brexit. The new Taoiseach Lepo Varadkar announced his new Cabinet last night in teh Dail at about 8pm. Minister Michael Creed will retain his brief in Agriculture but Minister Simon Coveney…
MacDiarmada Summer School to focus on Brexit
The annual Sean MacDiarmada Summer School in Kiltyclogher, Co Leitrim, is, of course, usually associated with history and culture. But this year, it is taking on a distinctly contemporary theme. And it is also one that is very relevant to the border area in which Kiltyclogher, the home of 1916…