All Articles: northern ireland
Boris Johnson’s olive branch on family migration to Northern Ireland
The status orange weather warning was justified. On Stormont Hill in east Belfast we were exposed to the full blast of Storm Boris as it blustered fiercely around us. So the Irish Times opened its report on the recent visit of the Prime Minister to Be ...
23rd January 2020Good Friday Agreement doesn’t stop Northern Irish people being born automatically British
Most people born in Northern Ireland have or are entitled to dual citizenship, British and Irish. Generally people apply for the passport of the country which they identify with — nationalists for Irish passports, unionists for British — a ...
25th November 2019Renouncing your British citizenship is rarely a good idea
Yet again the Home Office has come under fire for its treatment of a European citizen, this time for denying an EEA residence card to the American husband of an Irish national living in Northern Ireland. The case of Gemma Capparelli and her husband wa ...
7th November 2018