Belfast rally against Irish border after Brexit
Belfast, (MILLAT ONLINE):Demonstrators in Belfast on Wednesday backed a call by Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein against a hard Irish border after Brexit, a key point in Britain’s divorce talks with the EU.
Braving heavy rain, the roughly 100 protesters carried placards demanding that there be “no border” between the British province and its southern neighbour the Republic of Ireland, which will remain in the bloc.
“The north voted to remain within the EU and that mandate must be respected and acted upon,” said John Finucane, a member of Sinn Fein, which organised the protest.
Demonstrators unveiled a poster calling for the province to receive “special status” and urging Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to use his veto to prevent Brussels from moving to the next phase of negotiations with London unless his demands for no post-Brexit border were met.
An agreement on the border seemed imminent Monday, with Britain promising no difference in regulations between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland after Brexit in order to avoid the reintroduction of a physical border to check goods.