Flight Delays Disrupt UK Airports Once Again

21 septembre 2026 à 08:56

An air traffic control issue, now resolved, disrupted some flights in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland, less than two weeks after a technical problem caused cancellations.

A departure board displays delayed and canceled flights at London City Airport following disruptions caused by an air traffic control issue in Britain, on Monday.

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The Guardian view on the united Ireland debate: shifting dynamics need to be treated with caution | Editorial

Par : Editorial

14 septembre 2026 à 14:11

Donald Trump’s blithe comments at the weekend were characteristically unhelpful. A careful and considered discussion on the subject has yet to begin

A decade ago, the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) viewed Brexit as a potential gamechanger in the struggle to resist future pressure for a united Ireland. As the author and journalist Fintan O’Toole wrote in an essay published last year, the DUP hoped that the 2016 referendum would deliver “a double exit. Brexit would not simply mean the UK’s departure from the EU. It would also be an act of separation from the Republic. It would reverse the slow drift towards integration.” That proved to be, to put it mildly, a deeply flawed judgment.

The direction of travel since 2016 has instead been the opposite. Rather than leading to a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, which would have disastrously undermined the Good Friday agreement, the UK’s divorce agreement from Brussels eventually placed one in the Irish Sea. The logic of further economic integration between north and south within the EU’s single market was reinforced.

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Trump Says Irish Unification Would Be ‘Fantastic,’ Breaking With Precedent

Par : Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Luke Broadwater

12 septembre 2026 à 18:46

The United States has been officially neutral on an issue that was a source of decades of violence in Northern Ireland until a 1998 peace deal.

President Trump visiting Deerfield Residence, the home of the U.S. ambassador to Ireland, in Dublin on Saturday.

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Donald Trump says he would ‘love’ to see united Ireland

Par : Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

12 septembre 2026 à 12:05

US president say on visit to republic that unification will happen eventually so ‘may as well happen now’

Donald Trump has said he would “love” to see a united Ireland and that it “may as well happen now”.

The US president appeared to endorse the push for constitutional change on the island at the start of a two-day visit to Ireland on Saturday. The unexpected intervention prompted a swift rebuttal from the UK government and Northern Ireland’s unionist leaders.

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