Brexit has the potential to escalate tensions in Northern Ireland. Here we explain why
was signed between the British government, the Irish government and the region’s main Protestant and Catholic parties. as both sides of the conflict, Catholic separatist Irish Republicans and Protestan Irish unionists as well as loyalists to the British government are unsure about the status of the disputed region. prepared by the Independent Reporting Commission, with at least three people being killed and 81 others wounded by opposing Irish paramilitary groups.
The conflict in Northern Ireland began in the late 1960s because of the region’s sectarian divisions. While Catholic-majority Ireland won its independence in 1922 after a bloody war with Great Britain, its Protestant-majority in the north refused to secede from London, resulting in a political and military conflict between the two Irish communities. killed more than 3,500 people on both sides.
Politicians who negotiated the Good Friday Agreement, gather in a TV studio before recording a special programme in Belfast Thursday April 10, 2008, to mark its 10th anniversary. If Brexit happens, there could be two possible political scenarios for Northern Ireland, where the conflict has partly eased thanks to Britain’s EU membership, enabling free trade and movement with open borders between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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