Guardian correspondent covering international trade from European perspective, also post Brexit affairs and Ireland Former Brussels corr, Brexit corr + former media corr. Find me at [email protected]
Lisa O’Carroll
Suzanne Breen's piece - knife crime didn't arrive in Belfast with a refugee - it's been here for decades (lest we forget the punishment beatings, the kneecappings, the murders, the torture, the kidnappings? the bombs, the petrol bombs...)
www.independent.ie/incoming/suz...
Reposting report from 2024 on Home Office enforcement day in NI.
Also worth noting that travel of migrants to Ireland from GB/NJ is greater with up to 90% of all asylum seekers in Ireland coming via GB/Belfast
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner procurement of island reservation in Albania proves lightening rod for wider protests against Edi Rama.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
It's confirmed: Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and Kier Starmer will meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday to discuss military support for Ukraine, economic pressure on Russia and ways to revitalise the peace process.
The meeting will be in London.
And of course designed by Dublin architects O'Donnell + Tuomey
Exclusive: Brexit car deal needs to be changed, again, says industry in both the UK and the EU. Was changed in 2024 for three years only, said Sefcovic at the time. Now car industry still not ready for the tariff schedule laid out in the TCA.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
V&A East - wonderful architecture, space, exhibitions, roof terrace and shop in Olympic Park. Very different to the mothership in South Ken. Here's colleague Hugh Muir on the wonderful thing that happened when he visited the Music is Black exhibition.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
An extraordinary account of adoption back in the 1970s and the pain it created. So many of these stories in Ireland, but obviously it was big enough in the UK too back then.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Tom Parminter interviews Somalian woman who says she grew up with tribal war and then comes to NI and sees sectarianism all over again
And then the Romanian care workers. Why are they after the people who look after the elderly of NI
news.sky.com/video/share-...
