35 Burst results for "Northern Ireland"
The Mason Minute
Sister Cities (MM #4552)
"Are you familiar with the concept of sister cities? Nashville just announced that they become a sister city to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan in the Kurdistanian part of Iraq. Now, we have a big Kurdish population here in Nashville. That's one of the reasons, but for the life of me, I've heard about sister cities in darn every city I've ever lived in, but I don't know anything about them. What's the point? When I looked it up today, Nashville actually has 10 sister cities. This was the 10th. Erbil was the 10th. Belfast, Northern Ireland, Cayenne, France, Edmonton, Canada, Kamakura, Japan. We've got them in Germany, Argentina, Australia, a couple in China, and I just wonder why. I mean, I understand it's in the spirit of cooperation, it's in the spirit of connecting in some way, but I don't understand why you need 10 sister cities, and what do we get from them and what do they get from us? I'm just kind of curious. I truly don't understand. I've been hearing about sister cities my entire life, and to this day, I can't tell you what's the point.
The Mason Minute
Sister Cities (MM #4552)
"Are you familiar with the concept of sister cities? Nashville just announced that they become a sister city to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan in the Kurdistanian part of Iraq. Now, we have a big Kurdish population here in Nashville. That's one of the reasons, but for the life of me, I've heard about sister cities in darn every city I've ever lived in, but I don't know anything about them. What's the point? When I looked it up today, Nashville actually has 10 sister cities. This was the 10th. Erbil was the 10th. Belfast, Northern Ireland, Cayenne, France, Edmonton, Canada, Kamakura, Japan. We've got them in Germany, Argentina, Australia, a couple in China, and I just wonder why. I mean, I understand it's in the spirit of cooperation, it's in the spirit of connecting in some way, but I don't understand why you need 10 sister cities, and what do we get from them and what do they get from us? I'm just kind of curious. I truly don't understand. I've been hearing about sister cities my entire life, and to this day, I can't tell you what's the point.
The Mason Minute
Sister Cities (MM #4552)
"Are you familiar with the concept of sister cities? Nashville just announced that they become a sister city to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan in the Kurdistanian part of Iraq. Now, we have a big Kurdish population here in Nashville. That's one of the reasons, but for the life of me, I've heard about sister cities in darn every city I've ever lived in, but I don't know anything about them. What's the point? When I looked it up today, Nashville actually has 10 sister cities. This was the 10th. Erbil was the 10th. Belfast, Northern Ireland, Cayenne, France, Edmonton, Canada, Kamakura, Japan. We've got them in Germany, Argentina, Australia, a couple in China, and I just wonder why. I mean, I understand it's in the spirit of cooperation, it's in the spirit of connecting in some way, but I don't understand why you need 10 sister cities, and what do we get from them and what do they get from us? I'm just kind of curious. I truly don't understand. I've been hearing about sister cities my entire life, and to this day, I can't tell you what's the point.
The Mason Minute
Sister Cities (MM #4552)
"Are you familiar with the concept of sister cities? Nashville just announced that they become a sister city to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan in the Kurdistanian part of Iraq. Now, we have a big Kurdish population here in Nashville. That's one of the reasons, but for the life of me, I've heard about sister cities in darn every city I've ever lived in, but I don't know anything about them. What's the point? When I looked it up today, Nashville actually has 10 sister cities. This was the 10th. Erbil was the 10th. Belfast, Northern Ireland, Cayenne, France, Edmonton, Canada, Kamakura, Japan. We've got them in Germany, Argentina, Australia, a couple in China, and I just wonder why. I mean, I understand it's in the spirit of cooperation, it's in the spirit of connecting in some way, but I don't understand why you need 10 sister cities, and what do we get from them and what do they get from us? I'm just kind of curious. I truly don't understand. I've been hearing about sister cities my entire life, and to this day, I can't tell you what's the point.
The Mason Minute
Sister Cities (MM #4552)
"Are you familiar with the concept of sister cities? Nashville just announced that they become a sister city to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan in the Kurdistanian part of Iraq. Now, we have a big Kurdish population here in Nashville. That's one of the reasons, but for the life of me, I've heard about sister cities in darn every city I've ever lived in, but I don't know anything about them. What's the point? When I looked it up today, Nashville actually has 10 sister cities. This was the 10th. Erbil was the 10th. Belfast, Northern Ireland, Cayenne, France, Edmonton, Canada, Kamakura, Japan. We've got them in Germany, Argentina, Australia, a couple in China, and I just wonder why. I mean, I understand it's in the spirit of cooperation, it's in the spirit of connecting in some way, but I don't understand why you need 10 sister cities, and what do we get from them and what do they get from us? I'm just kind of curious. I truly don't understand. I've been hearing about sister cities my entire life, and to this day, I can't tell you what's the point.
The Dan Bongino Show
Biden Security Paper Lost by Ireland Police; Citizen Finds on Street
"Breaking news is some kind of security document was found on the street Listen I'm looking at it now haven't done a ton of these advances You know he's already out of that part of the region and it looks like it's not a Secret Service document It looks like it's the police service of Northern Ireland You know it's not the greatest thing in the world Call signs and phone numbers were on there but you know of course the media has got to pay I just always prefer to tell you the truth Nothing I enjoy more than undressing liberal stupidity but I have a feeling this story's going to get hyped up and it really appears to be you know embarrassing but not a major security breach Yeah because I saw a couple stories already No great gosh They Biden chaos which the guys are done We get that
AP News Radio
Biden says economic growth in N Ireland is 'just beginning'
"President Biden is pledging America's enduring support to Northern Ireland, as he marks 25 years since a U.S. brokered deal brought peace to the region. In Belfast, the president celebrated a quarter century of the good Friday agreement, while a new political crisis is testing the deal strength. To sustain the peace. Unleash this incredible economic opportunity, which is just beginning. Amid a political crisis that's left Northern Ireland without a functioning government to the president urged its politicians to come together and avoid returning to a violent era. Northern Ireland will not go back pray God. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Biden to help mark decades of relative peace in N Ireland
"President Joe Biden is marking the 25th anniversary of the good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland. Its Biden's first presidential visit to Northern Ireland, and he'll deliver congratulations on 25 years of the agreement that came after the U.S. helped negotiate an end to decades of sectarian violence that killed thousands. Biden is scheduled to speak at a business development event at Ulster university's campus in Belfast, Biden is not expected to make any attempt to help resolve a new political crisis that has rattled the good Friday agreement after his speech Biden travels to the Republic of Ireland for a three day visit. Donna water Washington
AP News Radio
Biden to visit Ireland, mark Good Friday accord anniversary
"President Joe Biden is visiting Ireland from late Monday to mark the good Friday accord anniversary. Biden will first visit Belfast Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK from April 11th to 12 to mark progress since the Belfast good Friday agreement was signed a quarter of a century ago and to underscore U.S. readiness to support Northern Ireland's economic potential, The White House says Biden will then spend April 12 to 14 in the Republic of Ireland holding engagements in doubling, county louth and county Mayo, where he'll deliver an address celebrating the deep historic ties between the U.S. and Ireland, sign on April 10th, 1998, which was good Friday, the landmark accord helped end three decades of sectarian violence over the issue of Northern Ireland uniting with Ireland or remaining in the UK. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Biden's ancestral hometowns prepare warm Irish welcome
"Residents in a small village in Ireland have been busy preparing for the arrival of president Joe Biden hanging American flags and painting buildings. Biden is due to travel to Ireland next week with a stop in ballina from which one of his great great grandfathers left for the United States in 1850. Joe blew it is a distant cousin who first met Biden when he came to town as vice president in 2016. Blew it said the U.S. leader pledged to return once he'd won the presidency as Irish roots are really deep in his heart. Antony heffernan, who also met Biden in 2016, said he's not surprised by the president's Irish roots, as many Irish people left for the states in the 1800s. I wouldn't think there's a family in Barnard that doesn't have someone or some connection with the states. The White House says Biden will visit Belfast in Northern Ireland to mark 25 years since the good Friday peace accord, before heading down to Dublin. He will then go on to ballina, where he'll deliver a speech in front of the 19th century cathedral. I'm Karen Chammas
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Immortal C.S. Lewis With Dr. Jerry Root
"This hour is going to really be focused on things that are eternal. In nature, and they're much more important than politics, politics is critical, obviously. We talk about it all the time. The politics is only part of a broader picture, we're going to talk about morality and religion, and eternity. Joining us now is doctor Jerry root. He's professor emeritus from Wheaton university. We could talk about that, but definitely want to talk about more importantly. His book, the neglected C. S. Lewis, and doctor root is with us. Now, doctor, welcome to the program. Thank you, Charlie. I'm grateful. Wonderful. So doctor root, I have personally been blessed by reading and studying C. S. Lewis. I've only really touched on 6 or 7 of his books, but I've enjoyed them thoroughly. I mean, he was prolific. But let me just start with a rather general question who was C. S. Lewis and why does he matter? C. S. Lewis taught at Oxford university for 20 9 years. He also taught at Cambridge University for 9. He grew up in Northern Ireland, and he was a guy who lost his mother when he was 9 years old and became an atheist as a result of that. And slowly he worked his way back to faith. And there was largely due to a conversation that he had with J.R.R. Tolkien is very close friend. But he had these longings that drove him and prompted him. He also had not only the longings of the heart, he also had a very sharp mind, and he needed to get over these intellectual barriers in order to come to fully embrace his faith. He was a prolific author. There are actually 73 titles under his name right now. He wrote 56 of them while he was living and the others he wrote after he died. No, they're actually collections of essays, letters that he wrote and so on that flush out the 73 volumes.
AP News Radio
Biden to visit Ireland, mark Good Friday accord anniversary
"President Biden heads to Ireland next week to mark the good Friday accords anniversary. Hard to believe 25 years ago this year. In Belfast, the president will help celebrate the U.S. brokered deal that helped end decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. Still, tensions are high. British intelligence services last month raised the terror threat level there to severe. Last week, the president said that would not change his travel plans. No, they can't keep me out. He often quotes Irish poets and notes his Irish ancestry. The descendant of the blues of county Mayo and the finnegans of county louth. He will travel to both next week, Irish prime minister Leo varadkar said on Saint Patrick's Day, it will be a visit like no other. Come see that we're going to throw that the red carpet, saga or Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Biden hosting Irish prime minister on St. Patrick's Day
"President Biden will host Ireland's prime minister on this Saint Patrick's Day. First Irish prime minister Leo varadkar and his partner will attend a breakfast with vice president Kamala Harris and her husband, then President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with the prime minister in The White House Oval Office, Biden infrared ger head to the capital for a noontime lunch with congressional leaders, hosted by the Friends of Ireland caucus, later Biden will host a White House reception for varadkar. Biden plans to visit both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland this year, the 25th anniversary of the U.S. brokered good Friday accord, which helped in sectarian violence that had raged for three decades over the issue of Northern Ireland unifying with Ireland or remaining part of the United Kingdom. Biden, who often speaks of his Irish heritage, has declared march Irish heritage month, and is even dying the self lawn fountain green. John of water Washington
WCPT 820
"northern ireland" Discussed on WCPT 820
"Of these parts together, right? They want England and they want whales and they want Scotland and Northern Ireland all to be part of the United Kingdom. They don't want these states running for independence. But they've got some real challenges ahead. If the economic downturn in the UK continues to get more severe, it's going to put so much pressure on the political process. For those members of our listening audience who didn't see a Kenneth Branagh's film Belfast, a revisit the separation of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Because I mean, we're sort of a better, more welcoming kind of world now. I mean, surely the Catholics and the protestants don't hate each other like they did back then. What is keeping them apart? In terms of rejoining or preventing the violence, why couldn't they? Well, you still have the you still have the unionists. So you still have a large Protestant group in Northern Ireland who very much wants to be part of the United Kingdom. And in some ways, those voices there are more British than in the Great Britain proper, right? Because they still see that sense of identity. And the good Friday accords, coming back in 1998, part of the solution to the violence was to have a power sharing agreement between the Catholics and the protestants. The protestants are not going to want to join with Ireland. They're going to push back on this. So there's all sorts of things. Exactly. Ian, now what's happening is you're seeing a growing Catholic population in Northern Ireland. So there are some that are saying that just demographic change over time is also going to put more pressure on this solution. There are so many moving parts in the United Kingdom right now. And so it's messy. And I think over time, there's going to be some clarity about where these two entities ultimately end up thinking about both Northern Ireland and Scotland. By the way, did you see Belfast and if so, did you find that it was it rang true? Yes. Just the powerful. Yeah, I love movies like that, the sort of explore these inner dynamics. And yeah, very, very revealing. I was very lucky I was out in Los Angeles and a friend of mine belongs to the producers guild. So he took me to a screening. This, of course, before the awards, they always do all this sort of stuff. And Kenneth Branagh and the entire cast was there. And the Belfast, for those of you who didn't get a chance to see it. It's basically sort of autobiographical. It was Kenneth Branagh's growing up story, much like the fable man's is apparently doing the same thing for Steven Spielberg. But just it was, it's a very well done movie, but to see that kind of hate and to see neighbor turn against neighbor. I mean, it really was for somebody like me who is who hasn't spent a lot of time getting into deeply into history. It was it was a real history lesson and a very human one. I thought, yes, and as you think about, we're coming up on the 25th anniversary of the good Friday accords. Basically bringing peace to Northern Ireland. And think about what a success that agreement has been. You know, obviously there are hiccups along the way, but that has dramatically transformed the lives of the people in those communities. And the solution there was both power sharing and economic engagement. So that was so important. You tie the groups together economically. You share political power. I mean, you think about policing and all of those issues, like you come up, it's rare to see something like that work. I mean, I think about all the agreements around the international system that end up falling through. This is one that proved really, really successful. And obviously it has a lot of impact in the United States as well. And I think it's likely that Joe Biden may take a trip to sort of acknowledge that 25th anniversary coming up as long as everything continues as normal in that time frame. You really think so. I think so. I think Joe Biden thinks about this as a success, right? And I think there's been some reluctance in the Biden administration to commit because the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is still very good, but there's frustration with them leaving Brexit. There's frustration with how they've handled the Northern Ireland situation. And so I think the agreement that we saw come together yesterday and today, I think that creates some space where Biden may actually make a trip there because I think he feels very connected to the history there as well. Well, I know that one of Biden's big achievements has been getting the western world, Canada, the United Kingdom and Western Europe on board to support Ukraine. We haven't touched on that particular international story. And we will right after we take a break. If you want to join our conversation, 7 737 6 three 9 two 7 8 7 737 6 three 9 two 7 8. We may have to stay on this topic for a quick second before we switch over to Ukraine because I do see I have some texted questions for you that I am just noticing. I'm joined by professor William muck. He's a political science professor specializes in international goings on will be right back after this. Podcasts of Jonas Bose live local and progressive are available on Spotify. Apple podcasts and SoundCloud just search
TIME's Top Stories
"northern ireland" Discussed on TIME's Top Stories
"At Monday's press conference, sunak also announced a storm Mont break, which will allow Northern Ireland's legislative assembly to stop the EU's customs rules from applying. This will establish a clear process for which the democratically elected assembly can pull an emergency break for changes to EU goods rules that would have significant and lasting effects on everyday lives soon act said. If the break is pulled, the UK government will have a veto. Why has the protocol been a source of tension? The Northern Ireland protocol has led to political division in Northern Ireland, and created rifts within the UK's Conservative Party over what it means for Brexit. British unionist politicians in Belfast said the trade border in the Irish sea undermines Northern Ireland's place in the UK and in 2022, the Protestant Catholic power sharing government in Northern Ireland collapsed. The democratic unionist party has refused to participate in any government until the protocol was scrapped, or substantially rewritten. Conservative MPs in Westminster, as well as the DUP are opposed to the role played by the European court of justice and resolving any trade disputes that arise over the rules. They insist the European court must have no jurisdiction in matters relating to the UK. Is there support for the revised protocol? The deal has been criticized by sunac's critics, but the DUP has remained largely silent in recent days. After saying it would need to see the details of the deal first. Sunak is expected to announce the deal with or without DUP approval. I want to get the job done. He told The Sunday Times. Nationalist parties Sinn Fein and the SDLP back the protocol with Sinn Fein being in favor as it would prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland. On Sunday, UK deputy prime minister Dominic raab told channel four that there was no de facto veto from the DUP. We want to engage and persuade and convince and demonstrate that the changes are substantial enough for the DUP, rob said. We're confident enough in the substance of the changes to feel front footed about doing so. Soon aka said British lawmakers will get to vote on the Northern Ireland protocol deal, but that he will give MPs time to digest it first. Sunac has the support of senior Tory MPs, including former Brexit secretary David Davis, who said his own instinct was to support a deal. Sunak is working hard to win Brexit supporters over. I've had a call from him. If he needs labor support, it might be mildly embarrassing, but nothing more, Davis told the independent. On Monday, labor leader Keir Starmer said that his party was likely to support any deal that the government strikes with the EU, adding that labor isn't a divided party on the issue. Speaking at an event with business leaders held in central London, starmer said that his own experience working as a barrister in Northern Ireland added to his view that anything that would improve the situation there would be welcome. Will the deal improve UK ties to the EU and U.S.?
AP News Radio
Sunak says U.K. has reached deal with EU on Northern Ireland trade
"British prime minister Rishi sunak is in Belfast to sell his landmark agreement with the EU to its toughest audience. That is unionist politicians who fear post Brexit trade rules and weakening Northern Ireland's place in the UK a deal was struck on Monday to resolve a dispute over the Northern Ireland trade that has vexed relations since the UK left the EU in 2020. The agreement will ease customers checks and other hurdles for goods moving to Northern Ireland from the rest of Britain, but Northern Ireland's British unionist politicians have yet to give it their blessing. Their support is key to restoring Northern Ireland's semi autonomous government, which is in limbo amid the trade feud
The Economist: The Intelligence
"northern ireland" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"May be dying, city centers don't have to. Vincero, thank you very much for joining us. Thanks for having me.
The Economist: The Intelligence
"northern ireland" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"We know? We haven't actually been told when there will be a vote on this deal. Technically, because it doesn't involve changing a treaty, it doesn't require parliamentary approval, but Rishi sunak has made clear that he thinks he should have a vote in the House of Commons to approve the deal that he's struck. And his problem will be if the democratic union is to decide they dislike the deal so much that they're going to be against it that will encourage some conservative MPs also to be against it and it's conceivable that Richardson could have a problem getting it approved in the House of Commons. The labor opposition have said, look, we'll help you we'll vote for the deal too, so he should have easily get a majority, but no prime minister likes to be in a position where he relies on the opposition to win a majority in the House of Commons. So there's going to be quite a lot of negotiating going on over the next few days before a vote is held possibly at the end of this week or possibly early next week. So that is to say, you think that everyone should take the deal. We could at last put this Northern Ireland question behind us. It would be much better for relations between the UK and the European Union. If this deal were ratified because it would remove the biggest single issue that has been jarring the relationship and causing trouble between London and Brussels, really ever since the Brexit deal went into false two years ago. There's been two years of arguments over the status of Northern Ireland. Once this is through, if it is through, if it is accepted by all parties, that argument can be forgotten. And there is scope for a new start in the relationship between the
The Economist: The Intelligence
"northern ireland" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"We've talked a lot on the show about Brexit. Dates and deadlines and deals and quite a lot of bad blood. But since Britain finally formally left the EU two years ago, one thing just kept coming up, the border between Northern Ireland, which is in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, which is in the European Union. It's complicated, not just for reasons of paperwork, as goods cross from one customs area to another. That border, or the lack of a noticeable border, is a really delicate matter for peace on the island of Ireland. And now it's back in the news because after much hand wringing, there might finally be a deal that resolves one of Brexit's most enduring headaches. The United Kingdom and European Union may have had our differences in the past. But we are allies. Trading partners and friends. Something that we've seen clearly in the past year as we joined with others to support Ukraine. This is the beginning of a new chapter in our relationship. Yesterday, Britain's prime minister Rishi sunak and EU commission president Ursula von der leyen held a joint press conference announcing a proposal. We have reached an agreement in principle. On the Windsor framework, the winter framework glazed down new arrangements on island to Northern Ireland. This new framework will allow us to begin a new chapter. The signs so far about this Windsor framework are hopeful, but not everyone is on board with it, yet. This could be a big breakthrough in relations between Britain and the EU and a big breakthrough in northern Ireland, which has been problematic for Brexit from the beginning. John Pete is The Economist's Brexit editor. We still need one. Rishi sunak has been negotiating to improve the operation of what's called the Northern Ireland protocol, which is the Brexit arrangements in Northern Ireland. For several weeks now, that the problem he has is that the democratic unionist party, the biggest unionist party in Northern Ireland, and many of his own conservative backed ventures remain unhappy that Northern Ireland will be part of the European Union in single market and will be subject to European Union law and he may have a difficulty selling this deal to those two groups. So let's wind back a bit, remind me why this deal was needed. One of the biggest problems over Brexit was the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland because with the UK leaving the European Union and particularly leaving the European Union single market, there has to be a border somewhere between part of the UK and the rest of the European Union. And it was agreed very early on that we should not have a border with controls between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland because that would upset the peace process, one of the points of the peace process in Northern Ireland was to have totally free access across that border. The difficulty that then presents is if you don't have a border there, where should you have a border? And the choice made by Boris Johnson in his Brexit deal was to have a border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland a border in the Irish sea, where you would have checks on goods going across into Northern Ireland. That itself then presents another difficulty, which is an Northern Ireland feels that there are different from the rest of the country, and that upsets unionists in Northern Ireland. That was the conundrum that British sooner has been trying to resolve. And so what does the proposed resolution look like? This deal so called Windsor framework that British sunak has struck with the European Commission was basically about a pragmatic attempt to reduce the number of checks and reduce the volume of checks on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland to the minimum possible consistent with Northern Ireland remaining part of the European single market, but Great Britain being out in single market. And what mister sunak and the European Commission have done is said, if we're dealing with goods that are only going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland that are no risk of crossing into the Republic of Ireland, then we'll call that a green lane, and we'll have minimal paperwork, a minimal checks, and we'll also have a system of trusted traders who we know are not going to try and smuggle goods into the Republic of Ireland and therefore into the European Union, and will rely on them to deliver those goods only to Northern Ireland. That's the basis of the whole deal that we're going to minimize what checks there are on goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. And that's what the deal does. The second part of the deal is because Northern Ireland will remain in the single market. It will continue to have to observe single market rules as they change, and what mister sunak has done is set up a mechanism whereby Northern Ireland can be consulted on any future changes to single market rules and can in theory object to them until the European Commission know we don't want to apply those rules. So that's the sort of democratic consent mechanism now built into this agreement. That sounds straightforward and of how is the deal being received? The deal has been received generally, very positively, most parts of Westminster think that this is as good a deal as you can get to reduce the number of checks on goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. It's been received quite well in Brussels. They think finally we've dealt with this niggling Brexit deal if we can now establish a better relationship with the UK since Britain has left the European Union and it's been received very well in America in Washington where there was an Ori the continuing argument over the Brexit arrangements in Northern Ireland could upset the peace process in Northern Ireland. And the U.S. national security spokesman John Kirby said yesterday that the Biden administration were very pleased and grateful that the steel had been done. We're grateful that the two sides were able to come up with this Windsor framework as they call it this agreement in keeping with the northern iron protocols. We believe that this will help improve the prosperity of both the EU and the UK and we'll open up all kinds of now avenues for trade that generally it's been positively received. The difficulty that Richie sunak now faces is that the biggest unionist party the democratic unionists are still not quite sure whether they like this deal and some Tory backbenchers are also saying we still don't like the fact that Northern Ireland has been treated differently from the rest of the UK. Mister sudak now has to try and persuade those groups to accept this deal and the importance of that is that if the democratic unionist party doesn't like this deal and says no, they will continue to boycott the Northern Irish executive and the power sharing arrangement for Northern Irish government. So the objection then from unionists in Ireland might be where this falls down seems to be one of the only constituencies where the deal doesn't look like a good deal. Yes, Rishi sunak having struck the deal with the European Commission yesterday and called it the Windsor framework. He then had to go to the House of Commons to explain the deal and for the most part, most sides of the House of Commons welcome to deal, but they were still one or two groups that were worrying about it and saying we need to slow the details and because of that, mister sunak has now gone to Belfast, where he's going to try and persuade the unionist community, particularly the democratic unionist party, that it would be better at least not to come out against the deal, even if they don't want to say positively they endorse this deal, and he still hopes that eventually, even when the deal is ratified, the democratic unionists might say, okay, well, now we've got it the best we can. We should return to the power sharing executive. You keep saying if, when will
AP News Radio
Sunak says U.K. has reached deal with EU on Northern Ireland trade
"The British government says it's reached a deal with the European Union to resolve their long running trade dispute over Northern Ireland. Prime minister Rishi sunak says he and European Commission president Ursula von der leyen would hold a news conference on Monday. The government had previously said it would only happen if a deal was struck government officials have told the BBC and Sky News that the deal has indeed been done. The agreement marks a breakthrough in a spat that soured post Brexit relations between Britain and the EU and sparked a political crisis in Northern Ireland, but now sunak awaits the judgment of Northern Ireland's democratic unionist party or DUP, which is boycotting the region's power sharing government until the trade arrangements are substantially changed. I'm Charles De
Bloomberg Radio New York
"northern ireland" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Business flash. Okay, those are the markets. Now let's look at this new survey from Boston consulting group. We say that the vast majority of UK businesses expect a recession this year, but only a 5th plan to cut jobs more than half of the 1500 business leaders who were surveyed say that they will continue to increase prices over the next 6 months. Let's speak now to Raoul RuPaul, who is the director at BCG's center for growth, welcome role, good morning. Thanks for being with us. 75% of the business leaders that you surveyed expect to a session, but actually the same proportion of positive about their own business prospects, only 20% are planning to cut jobs. How do you explain that sort of cross current of views? Well, I think one thing it shows is that particularly the labor market is going to continue to be strong this year. I think we've seen the tightness of the labor market over the past couple of years, particularly due to structural factors, both Brexit with people leaving but also COVID and the increase in retirees and long-term sick driving higher inactivity. So I think it's clear the labor market is going to remain tight. And I think that also links therefore to some of the confidence businesses have around there. Their future this year, even though they're expecting recession, it seems like it might be relatively short or relatively shallow in their view and therefore they're going to retain staff and feel confident about their businesses going into the next few years. Rob, good morning to you. How do things look then after this year, the picture in fact getting quite quickly a little bit more positive? Yeah, I think so. We asked business leaders over the next three years if they think economic growth will improve in 60% in greed. Similarly on consumer confidence over 60% expect it to improve after this year. And I think they also expect inflation to abate somewhat. So things are looking better. I think also we're not seeing any signs of significant cuts and big business investments to spice to downturn. I think only 9% of business leaders said they were planning to cut investment this year. So I think there seems to be a theme coming through that actually the expectation is a relatively shallow recession this year and then hopefully a rebound in the coming years. Okay, that's interesting. So a bit more positive. You also did ask business leaders about what they want from government. What were they main priorities? Well, I think it was quite a quite confused picture at times to be honest from what we saw when we asked, but I think the focus obviously was on things you'd expect. So particularly energy, so that came high in terms of priorities for government policy. And when asked about specific policies that would improve their business, or have a positive impact, there was a focus on things like reducing vat, reducing taxes on energy costs, reducing tax on investment. And I think clearly all highlighting that businesses are still concerned about their bottom lines as they always are. But I think particularly businesses are feeling this year quite squeezed by high interest rates, falling consumer demand, rising nominal wages, rising energy costs. And so with the margins being squeezed on all sides, I think when you ask about the policy priorities, that's what's come through. But there was no real clear consensus across the business sizes across the sectors on which policies should focus on. And I think that drives home for government that it is really difficult to find the business policies that will really fit the diversity of the economy at the moment. We're very focused today on watching for the potential deal between the EU and the UK on post bags of trading rules for Northern Ireland from your survey and from your conversations with clients could a deal help to boost business investment in the UK. Well, I think one thing we asked was what is holding back business investment in the UK and around half of business leaders said uncertainty. So of course uncertainty can mean many things here, both economic and political. But what we have seen since the Brexit vote is that the uncertainty attached to that has weighed on domestic business investment. And I think Northern Ireland, the uncertainty over the future relationship and particularly with the Northern Ireland protocol Bill, which is due to rip up protocol if there isn't a deal. There is uncertainty about a potential retaliation from the EU around that. And then a trade dispute. So I think a deal here would certainly fit the bill of reducing uncertainty, whether it would lead to a big increased investment. It's very hard to say, but I think anything you can do to reduce that uncertainty out there given the global shocks we're facing. I think would be well received by business leaders. Okay. Also then, in terms of remote work, most businesses don't see it affecting productivity. Yeah, I think that was one of the really interesting findings we came across. We asked businesses about how they would perceive remote working on virtual working and we see many headlines about the push to get people back into the office, et cetera. But I think only 8% of business leaders felt that it had had a negative effect on staff performance and productivity. So clearly some actually are much more nuanced view around the impact than what we hear often. And we also saw it in similar questions that there wasn't really going to be a renewed push amongst business leaders to get people back to the office when we asked them in terms of their balance between remote and in office or on site working many felt it was going to be the same in the coming years it is right now. So it is possible we've reached something of a new normal or a new way of balancing in terms of those two forms of work. And we also saw, I think, around the third or just under a third of business leaders saying they had hired purely remote workers given the staff shortages and skill shortages that they business has been facing. So clearly, not as negative as some of the headlines we've seen around remote working. Briefly row if you don't mind on the inflation picture, the majority of businesses surveyed plan to keep raising prices this year, what's driving that? Well, I think it is linked to the continuing concerns around energy costs, as I said, energy comes through quite strongly as one of their major concerns in a policy priority. So I do think there is a link there with, as you say, I think over half of business leaders saying they continue a good continuous race prizes over the next 6 months. I think it's also linked to the tightness of the labor market and the fact that they're going to feel they're going to continue to face nominal price at a nominal wage rises and therefore they're going to look to pass those on through continuing to raise prices. And I think looking back if you look at the data over the past year, what you have seen is that business input costs have been significantly higher or rising more quickly than their output costs or their abilities pass on to consumers. So I think we'll continue to see even if those input costs come down now. Businesses still feel they have some price rises to pass on to consumers, I think. That's interesting. There could be a longer tail to inflation or passing on price rises to end customers. Well, thank you so much for being with us. We will is the director of Boston consulting groups center for growth with their survey on UK businesses. That's got to bring you a check on the markets next. This is Bloomberg daybreak Europe. Victorious have made Britain's problems deeper, longer lasting
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"Laura. Hello, I've got an exclusive interview with an international star and also gossip on the entertainer that's had so much plastic surgery, his fans don't recognize him. He's a funny color as well. That's all coming up right here on the briefing with me M and elson. Let's begin with a story which is moving as we speak. The prime minister Rishi sunak is in Northern Ireland, amid speculation that a deal on the Northern Ireland protocol could be struck as soon as next week and the signs are hopeful to find out what we know so far and what could happen. I am joined by the Financial Times political editor George Parker. Welcome back, George. Hello. So this is moving today. It's moving in the right direction, isn't it? But before we look at the progress, could you just briefly, if possible recap the problem that we're facing here? Well, the problem is that Brexit through a conundrum, which was Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland question. It was the question about how you kept open the border between Northern Ireland and the republic. Which obviously is to try to keep open because the problems that caused the troubles which lasted for 25 years in Northern Ireland. So having an open border on the unveiling was crucial. However, Brexit created the problem of having a trade border between the UK and the EU. And to keep open the land border in Ireland, it was agreed by Boris Johnson in his 2019 Brexit deal that instead there will be checks on goods coming across the Irish sea from Great Britain into Northern Ireland, which of course is part of the UK. And that is a huge problem if you're a Northern Ireland unionist because you see it as putting barriers up within your own country. And that essentially has been the conundrum that people have been trying to address for the last three years. And it has also cost people dear when it comes to business. Yeah, because what it means is that if you're a UK company shipping things across the Irish sea, you've faced delays, you face additional bureaucracy and having to put some new labels on, custom declarations to send things into another part of the UK internal market. So that's the problem that people have been trying to fix. I should say also, by the way, that the Northern Ireland protocol, the thing we're talking about does put Northern Ireland in an enviable position because it's the only place in Europe, which has one foot in the UK market and another foot in the European single market. So it's a great place for investment, but if you're a unionist who believes in the sanctity of the United Kingdom, then you don't like the idea of having a border in the Irish sea. So reducing those checks on trade between the British mainland and Northern Ireland is what everyone has been trying to resolve over the last three years.
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", world and national news with me. Paul Queen Elizabeth II's coffin has left a cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland where it had been lying at rest for the last 24 hours now on its way to Buckingham Palace where Britain's longest reigning monarch will lie at rest for the rest of this week, where hundreds of thousands are expected to pay their respects. The new monarch King Charles the third is in Northern Ireland touring all four parts of the United Kingdom, he will be back in London later this evening. President Biden's hopes of recent positive economic data may have hit a snag with the latest consumer price index, Bloomberg's Anne Marie horde is at The White House where the president will be touting the inflation reduction act this afternoon. I imagine the one piece of spin that they're going to want to really grapple with is that they worked all summer to try to bring gasoline prices down from where it was at the June peak of over $5 a gallon to now just under $4 a gallon with $3 and 70 cents Bloomberg and Marie horde at The White House. Meantime the Biden administration is making contingency plans in case of a rail strike by the end of the week that could put even more pressure on prices. A White House official says they're working with shippers, truckers, and air freight and are considering an emergency decree to keep vital goods on rail. Former Twitter security chief Peter zatko is taking his claims about lax hacker protections and bot accounts to Capitol Hill. The Twitter whistleblower tells the Senate Judiciary Committee, the company was a decade behind industry standards. The company's cybersecurity failures make it vulnerable to exploitation. Causing real harm to real people. Peter zadko is calling the lapse as a ticking bomb, Twitter fired
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"Charles the third is now officially king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He was proclaimed ruler of the United Kingdom in a televised ceremony this morning in London and took an oath for the church of Scotland. Charles then signed a former proclamation that made it official several former British prime ministers were in the front row to witness the ceremony. Britain is observing ten days of mourning following Thursday's death of Queen Elizabeth at the age of 96, and William Kate Harry and Meghan greeted a crowd of hundreds outside Windsor Castle today. President Biden will join other world leaders and attending the queen's funeral Buckingham Palace confirms the service will take place Monday, September 19th. Ceremonies tomorrow will mark the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, Brad Siegel has more. President Biden will speak at The Pentagon Sunday morning on the 21st anniversary of the 9 11 terror attacks. He'll be joined by defense secretary Lloyd Austin and joint chiefs chairman Mark milley. First Lady Joe Biden will deliver remarks at the flight 93 national memorial observance in shanksville, Pennsylvania. Vice president Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will attend the ceremony at the national September 11th memorial in New York City. I'm Brad Siegel. The Memphis mother who was abducted and killed is being laid to rest today, hundreds gathered for Eliza Fletcher's funeral this morning, police say she was abducted while on a run last week and found dead a few days later, local running groups honored Fletcher yesterday by completing the run, she didn't finish. Thousands of people are evacuating in Northern California as a wildfire rages out of control in the mountains near Sacramento, the San Francisco Chronicle says the mosquito fire has more than doubled in size since Thursday night and has destroyed nearly 30,000 acres. The blaze burned buildings in the mountain town of volcano veil and is threatening thousands of other structures nearly 6000 people had to be evacuated from the area. California governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency and placer and El Dorado counties to help fight the fire. A number of British music stars are honoring their late Queen. Michael castner has more
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"Bloomberg opinion informed perspectives and expert data driven commentary on breaking news In his 9 20 in the city time to check in with Bloomberg opinion we're joined by opinion columnist Teresa Raphael who's writing about how Boris Johnson is courting a battle with Brussels over Northern Ireland three Let's cast our mind back then How did we get to the point where the UK is on the brink of what looks like a potentially dangerous trade spat with EU just what a year after signing the Brexit deal The tensions started almost as soon as the Brexit deal was signed The lynchpin of that deal was the Northern Ireland protocol which kept Northern Ireland in the EU single market But within the UK's custom union that created an effective border between Britain and Northern Ireland and there were a variety of mechanisms created in order to keep goods flowing fairly freely between Britain and Northern Ireland but there have been problems Manufacturers say that they have had disruption retailers are having to rearrange supply chains And it's been also a huge political problem for the democratic unionist party and unionists in Northern Ireland who see the border as a slippery slope to Northern Ireland getting reunited with EU member Ireland So that's kind of the genesis of this in July the UK submitted a series of demands to the EU in the form of a command paper including things like exempting chilled meat from the EU's ban Today David Francis will make a speech in which he goes much further in fact reiterating what the command paper says and other demands that including that the EU not that the European court of justice not be given oversight over this deal So that's a red line for the EU It's a red line for the UK to have the ECJ involved according to the UK government and that has set up the clash on Wednesday We are going to get the EU's response And then real negotiations start Do we think that we all negotiations do start to res good morning Because the Europeans have said from the beginning you know you signed this we've got a protocol Now let's make it work The UK position is that the protocol is not working from a UK perspective So it needs to be amended Are the other Europeans open to change on this Yeah so they don't call it a negotiation They call it a discussion And so but it's clear that there is a will to escalate from the UK side if the EU doesn't come back with proposals that they can engage with And that could include triggering the so called article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol which allows one party to suspend implementation After that there would certainly be a month of discussion within this joint committee that set up by the protocol and then things really get heated because there are provisions for retaliatory measures And if nothing is decided the UK is in not so subtle language threatening to kind of blow the whole thing up Whether it gets there I mean there's a lot of steps between here and a trade war but the fact that that's being even discussed right now tells you how far the government at least right now is willing to push it There is just assume the worst on this Tuesday morning How do we get to a point where there's just escalates What is the potential ultimate damage of this So trade wars are pretty nasty things We haven't seen fortunately very many of them We know that when Donald Trump put all his tariffs in place it redounded pretty much to the detriment of the UK consumer and UK businesses In this case the EU would have a lot of levers it could use It would have small levers such as declaring the UK not compliant with its GDPR with its data privacy directive But if things really escalated the EU would look for ways to inflict maximum political damage on Boris Johnson's government that didn't redound to the EU consumer looking at products that are fungible say you know cheese Or.
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"In the architects say they've inadvertently discovered the world's most Northern Ireland. The Danish and Swiss team revealed that they thought was that they were in a different place until they checked their position and found they were on a previously undiscovered 30 square meter agglomeration of mud and rock. Mike Sanders has more details. The scientists flew by helicopter to what they thought was Kodak Island to collect samples, no great excitement there. That tiny outcrop has been known about since 1978 but when they checked their position with the Danish official in charge of registering Arctic islands There were 800 M further north. Team leader Martin Rush of the University of Copenhagen said they were standing on land closer to the North Pole than anyone had been on before. The team suggests calling it attack Havana like meaning the northernmost island in Greenlandic, an
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"Very much.
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"northern ireland" Discussed on The Ski Podcast
"No having been able to go out there and advance. Yeah i mean huge in downhill skiing. We're doing a gravity based fought so our equipment is just as important. Sometimes it's our i was. I was skill base so having the rice walked the right what preparations on your skis is so important and not going and feeling those conditions beforehand. It'd be really difficult for the the the technicians who prepare escape but also as a mental ability to not seeing the course in ski cross for instance all our courses are the very different and they might be more suited. The might be need to be more of a glider or someone who can cook with big jumps and stuff like that normally. We always on an olympics. Get testament where we get to kind help. Go and have a look. Look at the exact. Like for like coffee will be that general kind of build. So we'll get to see the obstacle course per se Pry a year before. So you kind of them start to build and then some preparations start to kind of. We'll build these kind of elements kind of what we saw in the in europe and practice them now this is a good thing for the brits because back in two thousand eighteen we didn't there was a big star feet jet in pm chan which no one had ever seen before it was a drug start. We opener for and it was really quite vertical. So very very technical. Now this waste the austrians all these big european teams were able to go and build the like for like on their own snow now. We didn't have access to that so always a little bit kind of behind. I managed to kind of make friends a few people and jump in every now and then on a couple of them but this probably in a way helps us out. We're all in the same starting line when you go that but yeah no. It's really difficult but the good thing is maybe puts everyone in the same boat. I remember the The wutang ride star. The course impeding. Chang of zap see massive. Wasn't it was always like going up. Hills the off week before yeah race. Right you're jumping from kind of the height of a double story building. Free falling down to level one then after ride the back of that then go up the oversight of a two story building to get over the way hit. That's kind of landing point and get the momentum like swing to kind of get open over was kind of quite crucial. John's madonna skate question. Then you've got shaping competing this winter unite. The they've been colored pro protocols in place for all of your races has affected things much as it made it more difficult. Put extra pressure on utha competing. Not really nice quite organized we had. We had two test of course before leaving when we arrived at. We only lost two like haitians ju to change in arrangements. We've covet but one was replaced so in the end it was just one one event. We lost We actually had just as many days knee just as many days racing because that adds extra days in the same by croatian. What's okay so apart from the fact that you had to be tested be now they they More regularly it wasn't a particular obstacle in terms of your competition in terms of how you competition is concerned not neither competition was was just as normal except a mollusc until the very last minute and then you finish and pop from that. Yeah well we see that in the summer olympics as well and in the summer olympics in New sports such as surfing skateboarding. Have you guys been watching. The skateboarding saw some of that brilliant. It's unreal and said good that job commentating on as well Alien tim would. Isn't it doing law so he was doing the climbing as well. Yeah the he's getting. some good. Were thinking about the winter olympics. I read that ski. Mountaineering is going to be included in the winter olympics. And would you guys. What shot ski mountaineering. I think it'd be quite exciting. I mean those guys very popular in cautioned essentially ruining the piste. But ruining the me. I'm more of like short sharp athlete. So i like it to be fast. So long baronets shocking. Half say can you talk about kush valley during the winter. They have a ski touring racist standing lepre and goes up to eighteen fifty. And i've done that several times now. I'm a bit more experience at ski touring now than i was. But oh my god. I could not believe how far some people always such an amateur attorney. Just trying to get my skis on this. And that and is he site at practically running out the piece. What about you. I bet you dear. A of ski touring orchestra. Crossover with with what you do just now would be Interested in watching it taking part and welching yes Emily taking not really a lot to go. Mime pace with that and enjoy the day off activity. I don't bay. He mountaineering ski. Touring become more and more popular ski. Mountaineering is kind of race element of it. Probably the most famous pure ski mountaineering rights. a cut-rate iglesia a longtime ago in the podcast. I speak to. Philip middleton the power in that several years ago it's a team event but always in last month. I speak to martin antiquated who is actually a previous winner of the event. So listen to your e said here in zuma today and a lovely face.
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"National flood. The antigens is much much cheaper. I saw exactly the same thing. In shammy you can get into pharmacy. And gets a antigen tasteful. Twenty nine euros can done there and then say there. There's a significant saving for having it that way around and that would be great. I did also ninety-six shops. That transport secretary said this week or maybe even yesterday that he thought this whole system would continue through until the autumn but to be honest with the icon affiliates bound to end up going into the winter as well. You know we talk about skiing here and how it's gonna affect tests. Do you think we'll still be taking tests. The travel as well as prefix nation. Come the winter. i'm sure we will. Yeah i really already thing. We will be because The you know there's a lot of foam you baron's coming in play and on trying to keep a keep a real hands on that that's why the advising a use of a p coming back to the uk now because that you know you can clara tests. They can ready to tax and keep abreast of the latest date saw variants. Yeah i mean you know you. Kumi cynical but there's been a huge amount of money being a dancer. These tasks and equally. Today there was an article About a saying. I think it was only five. Percents of postive tests have been sequenced so they log about. You're looking at variance and things like that doesn't stack up if that work is being done. That's how reason for testing people in theory when they come back into the uk and say just let some finish with seo advice. I mean they they one of the points about bottles bystrov insurance. While we've been talking to you we'll act. Came across the in the first place. Is that you. If they f c. I advise against nonessential travel. Then you still be covered on the battlefield. Trow insurance have i- rooms changed at all night. Battle policies are available and accessible and combat destinations worldwide. Regardless of the traffic light. Kara include is on the scc. Cdl advisories if you all You out in spain. And that changes trumpet like hallo- you will still be absolutely the comments with with policies. Well that's great. I'm delighted to hear that you had a a good trip. Will you be going overseas again. This summer is two and a half weeks mediocre enough for you. I'm the state. See and actually so i Out of ice based over there or something. yes. I'm hitting sky in coming weeks When when government items up item reciprocates with all arrangements believed able to see in the papers. This weekend as well sport cost will come out on monday so that might be a little too late but yet an interview yesterday there's going to be in the diagnoses. Yes that's right. Yeah have about costa testing on my trip sustain in tomorrow's mail leave. I was in the independence the express and the pinnacle online this week. It gets to speak to you again. Get in a couple of weeks time. Thanks man thanks. Casey for that. Now listen the like me. You've been enjoying watching the tokyo olympics. It seems a bit strange after year. a yearlong delighted the twenty twenty olympics. But it does mean. There's now lessons six months or about six months until the winter olympics in beijing. And the reason. I say emily and jasmine to join me today. Is that both of them. Have competed professionally and jasmine still is the highest level. And say let's not offer a little chat about jasmine. What event in the winter olympics. Will you be most looking forward to watching. I always enjoy the outpoint obvious reasons but will say the ski jumping cross country skiing. Olivet really excellent cross country skiing. Paps has the the closest set with your telemarketing events. Logical combination is probably a combination of three mentioned size. Probably why enjoy watching knows. But it has downhill element of our point that we have free heo of ski jumping and cross country. So it's very much the blend votes ice right. Okay and emily represented. Great britain in the scarecrow set the winter olympics. I i'm going to take a guess me though it will eventually be looking forward to watching. Yeah i mean ski crosses that kind of a adrenaline sport where it's a little bit like the hundred sprint. Where the first one across the finish line wins. So you don't really need to know much about it to kind of grasping is a spectator. So yeah it's always a good one to watch so i'll be looking forward to that oversee all my fellow p. Is sippy competed. Rival being their so called friends competing. But also i didn't i. I love the olympics. Because the so much kind of you get to see on your regula tv screen. So that's obsolete glued to the screen right now but in your think also i'll be looking for the brits and we've got like probably the strongest kind of fresh team we've ever had taken to a game Maybe the biggest depth and talent. We've we've had as well so that'll be really interesting to see where the brits kind of like. Yeah end up because we're not normally no those winter sports but now we've got world champions. We've got people who regularly run. Welcome jobs won't the olympics because events on the olympics and there's many kind of like athletes up there who are going to be good in for a medal so i think that'd be really cool to see that i mean you're roy and certainly ambitions for snow. Sports are very high. I did actually get a press. Release yesterday which i haven't looked at in so much. Data have announced the teams the free ski and snowboard squirts after this winter. And again these as you mentioned. There's a huge amounts of a talent in there and a lot of people have picked up medals already. I think the ambition ham from vicky goes ling who is a ceo of gdp snake. Sports is that they want to have britain fifth in the medal table for alpine sports. And i don't think that's this olympic cycle. I think it's for the one after 'cause you need to get you know fairly considerable number of meadows if you think that You know jenny. Jones was the first ever alpine meadow in sachi and then they were to meadows. I'm right in saying in the last olympics. As i think they probably need to get up to five or something like that so you To get to get the the the placing that they're looking for but that's entirely possible with the with the squad of athletes. Who were there at johnnie avenue vs on that anyone looking out for.
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"northern ireland" Discussed on The Ski Podcast
"That into the snowden auto and say you will we escapees and had eight boardroom. I came get hold could could meet your gold brian. All muslim that He's indonesia escape. Xm good dan friends like that. You normally do your skiing then. Normally well. we're just. We spent a year in canada inbound. So we got it right there for the full season stomach villages or resort so brilliant. What were you doing at david. So we worked in our job contrivance wrestling with two years day skiing so you went up in the morning. Usually apply today took first break in the morning and goal of fresh before the resort is really really good. I run the martin that resent sal his two years ago swiping when i every year so announced the lake louise kicking horse and some chain and this winter rebels. of course homer fingers crossed over bearing. Yeah well we know. He's i mean he's very dynamic. We spoke about but we're going to be cochabamba later. In the forecast we tasty from other taste. But i'm i'm a if you listen to the scenario ever to mistake and suffer from zimbabwe some competent lugar escaping hopefully this winter then just while we're chatting ski season ski scene like in northern ireland. Are there are there. Many skiers escapes it. Yeah there's a love pins ears. That would kind of go every year. I know a couple of guys have done seasons Quite someone wessler guy. Josh understand good friend of ours. He was on whistler. So yeah there's there's quite a big holiday season. They wouldn't wouldn't be as hard core. I guess you're relying on and europol or even you know in that you need to have flights connecting from belfoff strike network. Yeah you can. You can fly out with dublin. Yeah right it's a bit more effort probably St you can ski. And thanks for sharing that with us. And i think. We've completed of england scotland wales and northern ireland domestic and do a compact again if you're speaking on because hey more vamp it very much mild thanks david and just off the recording this episode. We got this update from alex irwin friend of the show. We've been out to teen at the end of july and updates on the conditions. Are there alex. Today's winter with snow report from the grandma. Plus your team the cluster. Officially close for skiers at the start of august but it managed to kiss up there on the twenty ninth for. What was the last sunny down. The slopes on boy was it worth it blue skies endless fuse a more importantly a great snowpack absolute nirvana for some skiing from the base to the crown. Mock gondola everything looked over grain. Warn however we started skiing down. You realized everything was alright. I bumped into phil smith from snow. Ski courses who very kindly lettuce have a run done. A slalom course and it was next to perfect absolutely amazing. There were signs of plenty of snow me with blocks of covered snow at the bottom of the all. The slopes showing teens commitment to snow management. Even on the glossier. It was a shame to leave at eleven thirty but as things have to come to an end see the conditions. I can't wait until october. For the glasses autumn reopening luckily teen also has great summer activities to do around the lake and from great mountain biking walking walking tracks. Too crazy water. Slide into the lake. If you ought to see how we got on. Please check out my youtube channel. Hundred fifty days of winter so until october child i that was that was great listened to basking in northern ireland. So you've covered all the countries of Of the united kingdom now rigorousness also recall the spiked andy meldrum from glencoe about midsummer ski events. And he also told us a little bit more about how mccain to by the resort to they on last winter introduced as being the owner of glencoe for cia in the blue room earlier. I i think i'm ryan saying that. You the idea of becoming the came about during one of these midsummer. Escapees is that right. Yeah what's not humid. we're up fifteen years ago. We were skiing in the last day of the season. And i can donate gel. Left said to the lift operated the bottom chapman. Mackenzie we'll see you a midsummer's normal and he said oh you might not because the business is up for sale and that was the first we'd have that and at that point in time we were really just curious that the ski area what actually sold for much. It was washington things. Yeah they just they just developed and quietly just curiosity and then realized that it was probably something that was was possible. And i've always been you know. Interest in snow interested in an industry used to walk Tada i won't take me go Before getting a proper job So yeah that's it came about and six months after initial interaction list we In in late november we go. We go involves go skiing. We really disco pigs. I think the previous years the business had really struggled so we we came in. Yeah a lot of challenges but luckily Two seasons gonna feet the and since then it's been it's been pretty good with its with its challenges the especially the last two seasons with the with kovin restrictions. You mentioned that have to ask you about that. I mean a thinking about comparison with a more normal season. I did you get any revenues in. It's you're able to in any realistic way. I think at times it was even a domestic market. But other times not here. We g opened an effective december on on man-made so for For sledging and and we had enough snow that we made and then just between christmas new year we opened for skiers and slide us. We were controlling numbers with lane ticket. And that we just put in place controlled the numbers local people only and they all seem to be going very well until the fourth of january. We were told the scheme was not the nausea and we. We can't expect it to be open reopen and reopened. Eventually we open just as ara as left up drives broken. We had enough snow open sewer. We really didn't guess he's not. I think we just under a thousand skier days this year. You can listen to the rest of that interview with With andy meldrum from glencoe in episode. Seventy five talking about our old episodes over one hundred catch up on. So if you're a new listener have look on the website. The skibo cost dot com. Look for tag or category. That takes your interest. And there's plenty there now quick question for ut and emily and jasmine have either of you ever skied in northern ireland. I have never given overnight island..
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"northern ireland" Discussed on The Ski Podcast
"And welcome to episode seventy seven Thanks for joining us Firstly as always thank switzerland tourism for sponsoring the podcast have been such great supporters of the podcast. And i really couldn't do this without them. And to me such pleasure to get out there which i have done since our last Updates and we'll talk about that a little bit more later. I wanna listen away. You might be today listening to this on. Tend to listen to podcasts. While running and but you might be in the car at the gym. Oh maybe saying you're working but wherever you all make sure you subscribe say never miss an episode and You can always tell snow loving friends about us two very easy to share particularly if you're listening to us on spotify now in this episode. We're going to be discussing the olympics summer and winter in northern ireland but firstly. I'd like to introduce my guest today. I'm delighted to increase olympian. Emily gasfield power for her second appearance on the show. Hi emily how are you. How are you very well. Thank excellent and joining us again. I think for the third time is woke up. Winning telemark adjustment taylor. Hi jasmine how you thank you. How are you like to start with the first question. I was asked my guess which is. When did you ski or snowboard. Last possibly hasn't changed since you're on the show. Let's find out. Emily win the ski lost now. This is the longest period. I've ever gone without my skis on my faint. So it's really bizarre. The last time. I skied was easter. Twenty twenty so. That's over a year since i skied. And that's a longest mahal entire life. Because i think i had skis on. Wouldn't hav so you did well to get out there in east ohio that's yet nineteen then vice. Okay even worse than that where it was up in meribel in mirabeau. What about you jasmine. I think because you spent some time in the outs. And i know the ski loss to when was it you did. She ski last. While technically just the day really excellent him hipsters hamsters. Apart from that. I was skiing last in pro sites while still thinking and how i am stay county. It's on it's on snow. And i interviewed a and brown while ago. He's the the general manager there. He acclaimed hempstead so that definitely still counts when he skied Back in april. Where was that Saucepan the season in lizard in the shamny valley even though the results for an icon. We'd have a kind of special access. The training Trying but Properly scan it was probably the end of the season for basic course sign right co. Yeah nice place to go. This is the last episode will know that i went out deserve to try and get some skiing and and tap into turning up one of the days when the when the list was closed this was back in july a united really hiked. Always gonna get an extra ski in but it didn't happen but talking skiing we've covered skiing in the uk the last year. 'cause lots of our listeners have been forced to a note been able to overseas and skied in the uk. We've had reports from wales scotland and england in previous episodes sites. But did you know that you can ski in northern ireland. As well early this week. I speak to you mark thompson and david hug. He told me about their Their experiences okay. I'm delighted to be joined by mark thompson and and david hoge Just now how are you guys came. Well excellent well. The reason i wanted to have you on the podcast as you know. We have a lot of skiing around the uk in this horrible winter. We had last winter where people didn't get to go away. And we've had reports from gaining os and from skiing scotland sake skiing england but he contacted me mark because you've been skiing in northern ireland which i thought was a great called much gained by over their whereabouts. Did you go mark. So we had to the more and mountain ranch sculls near newcastle. They're gonna and of northern ireland. Okay yes. I think. I did look apple. The quite near the border with the republic violence needs at dundalk. Is that right. Yeah near surrender tight. We we're both getting frustrated given the global climate with couvert new skiing for sal so kinda thought. We saw the good bits new for kind of northern than we thought. Goodness there might be enough here to to hike up and see what we can ski great and when when was that then. This was enron christmas. They're kinda two weeks after christmas. I think most of our snow and so it was all. There's no lifts there you have to. You have to hide yourself. Or we ski touring possibly no. There wasn't even enough snow to ski ski. Tear up it was skis on the bike and an forty five hike up okay. An hour forty five ought to look at it. It looks like he's about eight hundred meters. Eight hundred fifty meters around there is that right. What's the drought again. What you earn your walking there is one well was actually komeda mountains. In in the morning we were skiing. So just under fifty four acer. We're probably getting around three hundred years. How many times did you buy them. Probably six times it was. You weren't getting a good buying for your buck like you weren't getting too many too many vertical meters. Yeah game some skiing and getting some. That's really good. David use gates is well. It's getting down in the south in the more mountains. You say kind of went a little bit further afield as well where the spot unc. Yeah that's right so we went to the Harshly the border and darned but We've got more than the north in the more mines was probably better melissa longer on kind of ship and we actually ended up building today. Actually i think i saw that. Because he sent me some links with joel. Include in the show notes of you guys on your on your kicker that looks like fun so markelle more adventurous than men. He was throwing the clintons. Use wells credits. Him so was really fun again. Hundred meters tall. Hey good work. Mark what what was the. How long was the high cup for. Arrigo knows long. Probably about an hour. An hour and similar descent similar to send probably probably about two hundred three hundred years. Yeah that's my okay. But i'm thinking if you made a kicker and you're actually doing backflips. The snow was a bit better. that gauging. yeah that's probably and the snowpack was probably the hardest thing up there. We say because you really bill or form a junk. So we kinda improvised. Need one for me. It's up with this or trump. That's.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Ministers to Outline Proposals to Address NI Protocol
"You government. Ministers are set to outline how they want to overhaul trading arrangements between britain northern ireland the measures which governed by the northern ireland protocol designed to prevent the need for border checks on the island of ireland after brexit but the government in westminster is concerned about the impact that it could have on exports to northern ireland when the terms fully kickin over the next few months the agreement has also angered large sections of northern ireland's loyalist community. Let's get the latest now with george parker political editor at the financial times. Thank you for joining us. George just bring us up to speed. I on what we can expect from today. Well we're going to have to wait very long. See precisely what the british government's gonna say in this regard. There's gonna be a statement to the house of commons by the northern secretary brandon. Lewis in about half an hour's time where he's also going to publish a government statement on how it sees the future of the brexit deal relating to ireland's but essentially What's happened here. Since brexit took effect is that the uk government regards the checks on goods passing between the mainland of great britain's northern ireland to be fought too onerous. They think the eu interpreting the deal and as far too legalistic away and it's created tensions in northern ireland where the pro uk unionists community very much disliked. The idea of any sort of trade off between northern ireland and the rest of the united kingdom shots background so it and what the government is expected to announce today is it wants to basically get rid of those checks on goods travelling between raping the person in northern ireland. Right much more sort of honesty books. Kind of approach where british Goods thrive in northern ireland. That they'll be some sort of guarantee sticker on the mall. Something saying that. The could should only go into circulation in northern ireland across across the open land border into ireland which of course remains possibly even single market.
AP News Radio
UK Plans to End Prosecutions for Northern Ireland 'Troubles' Crimes
"The British government plans to end prosecutions for northern Ireland's troubles crimes officials want to introduce a statute of limitations for alleged crimes committed during decades of violence in Northern Ireland the movement and prosecutions the killings committed by both British soldiers and members of militant groups the country's Northern Ireland secretary has told lawmakers the statute would apply equally to all troubles related incidents more than three thousand five hundred people died during the three decades of violence known as the troubles most of them civilians Charles the last month London
WNYC 93.9 FM
"northern ireland" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"World service and we're coming to you live from our studios in London. I'm least to set a mistake. That's how British Cabinet Minister Michael Gold is No describing the use sudden decision. To impose vaccine export controls of the Northern Irish border. The European Union quickly reverse that step after was loudly condemned as a violation. The key clause in the E U's Brexit deal with Britain, in other words, that there would be no hard border on the island of Ireland, but this crisis isn't over yet. Northern Ireland's First minister, Arlene Foster, Vehemently criticized the U. What's absolutely incredible act of hostility towards those of us in Northern Ireland. It was nothing to do with making sure that Northern Ireland was in a peaceful state and all to do with the European Union's vaccine, embarrassment and mismanagement. The prime minister and I need to act very quickly to do with the real trade flows that are being disrupted between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Arlene Foster with you more, but that vaccine makes management shortly. But Mrs Foster also called on the British government to abandon and replace the existing post Brexit protocol for Northern Ireland. Agreed with you up until now. We've been trying to deal with these issues on individual bases, but the protocol is unworkable. Let's be very clear about that, and we need to see it replaced. Because otherwise there is going to be real difficulties here in Northern Army, Alan Foster again with us get more details on this. Richard Morgan is the BBC's business report. Hurry Northen Ireland, he explained the background to this reaction. This Roy is really as a result of the European Union looking to trigger what is known as article 16, which is ah clause within the Brexit agreement, the Northern Ireland's protocol. That essentially change is hard up protocol works and what was going to happen here is that if article 16 had been triggered, it was to control the supply of vaccinations. Throw it the EU and there were real concerns essentially that vaccines arriving in the Republic of Ireland. Could basically get into great Britain using Northern Ireland as a backdoor because Northern Ireland is still part of the EU single market for goods and there would be no checks, but one article 16 would have done Is created a hard border on the island of Ireland when it comes to vaccines. The whole point of preventing that hard border was to protect the good Friday agreement and to protect the peace process on this island. So, of course, it has escalated as you mentioned beyond vaccines. With Arlene Foster, now, basically calling for replacement of the Northern Ireland Protocol. Is there any chance that that would happen? Well, I think unionists it's worth saying or absolutely furious. They view this as Brussels about to hit the nuclear option. They already here the Northern Ireland Protocol because it has essentially placed a border die in the Irish Sea, requiring goods arriving in Northern Ireland. From Great Britain to undergo some checks and processes to prevent those checks happening on the island of Ireland, where the border currently is, and I think, essentially unionist, they're saying, Well, look, what process was willing to do At the first sign of any trouble of any problems on this was to do with vaccines. What could happen down the line? I has this set a precedent and could we see Article 16 being triggered for anything on any concerns that arise on what uncertainty will this create for businesses and for Northern Ireland's economy Because we'd already bean been seeing pictures of empty shells and Northern Ireland Linds supermarkets, So this comes at a time where there already were growing trade issues. Yeah, Things haven't been smoothed over the last couple of weeks. As you say Supermarket shelves have bean empty. There have been issues around getting certain goods across the Irish Sea Jew to those new checks. We have retailers, well known high Street stores, who have simply stopped selling goods to Northern Ireland on the online retailer Amazon. It's currently drawing up a list of products that it will no longer offer to customers in Northern Ireland's and this is really concerned business on politicians, particularly unionist politicians, who have been calling on Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, and the U. K government. Trigger article 16 themselves in order to ease the supply chain issues on. Many are saying that if solutions aren't find that tree, a disruption is only going to get worse as we get further into this year. Richard Morgan, the BBC's business reporter in Northern Ireland. Well, Thomas Byrne is Arlen's minister for European affairs. Was he shocked what has happened with the EU Commission and the Irish border? I think we need to just step back. A bit from this. We had a situation with European Commission is very determined to ensure that it had sufficient supply of vaccine and the contractors, you know, complain to their contractual obligations. European Union Andre Commission decided to introduce an export restrictions. That was part of that, I think inadvertently, the commission decided to invoke article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol on that would have raised the specter Unless 31 really off a restriction on the border, Northern Ireland and I don't think there was any reality to it and any necessity for it and then out of the commission and following intervention from our prime minister, our T shirt in Ireland. Um, decided that suggested it wasn't necessary it all on In fact, frustration could work at without, just But doesn't it raise concern for you that yet again, whether it's London or Brussels? The Irish issue seemed to be afterthoughts. Well, I'm very glad that when the Irish government points that the seeming mistake that was made here there was rectified within hours before everybody went to bed, So I'm very glad that our concerns were received on there was intense discussions between the Irish government on the European Commission between the government and the British government, and indeed between the British government of the European Commission's where I think it's very good. And that we could all resolve this particular matter and then move on together. Then what do you make of Arlene Foster? The first minister's comments, said the protocol, the northern on critical just needs to be replaced for her. It's not closed. The purpose of the Northern island protocol is to ensure that there would be no hard border on the island of art. And so if we don't have the protocol, we then have a hard border. You then have guards guarding the heart border. And then you have trouble on criminality is this happened over the years, so we want to avoid that. We want to make the protocol work for every section of the community in Northern Ireland. And yes, there have been some teething troubles and with the protocol, but we're determined. We have been working over the last few weeks to fix them. And I know that And the U. K. Michael Gold has been talking with European Commission's marriage shock, which today that's very, very welcome, and they're committed to resolving the issues that do exist between Britain and Northern Ireland terms the operation of the cold calling these things. These are operational issues that I feel complete, resolved relatively easily, and I look forward to our government giving every possible assistance that we need to make sure this protocol works for everybody. It's the it's the alternative. That protocol is really unthinkable. The problem for Northern Ireland and are strong view is not the protocol. It is. 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National Secular Society Podcast
"northern ireland" Discussed on National Secular Society Podcast
"This is something we see across the surface on in england Faith school proposals. Put forward proposals about how they will encourage people with different backgrounds to meet people's mother school was whereas if i were in school together that would be much. More efficient assumes the significant scheme operated north non for skills cold shared education. Which has large sums of movie. Ten million som- somebody mentioned And chart addication. The the costs would be. I think over the last number of years closer to between fifty one hundred million so significant bunnies from aside from philanthropy from the government from taxpayers. Obviously to try to address the legacy of the system. The that is the government's already propping up at were in english time if kids are going to a catholic school or a protestant skill. Those kids are probably living side by side with each other. The potentially go to the sam skype trip or plan the same soccer team. That is his in northern ireland. The communities in northern ireland remained deeply divided in urban areas the demarcation off catholic communities is written on the wall. It's written on the curbstone you can see the from tattered flags flying on lampposts whether you're in a catholic community are The kids that grow up ten fifteen yards from each other. The distance between them may be demarcated by a five meter high wall. Those children never get to meet. They live in an environment where they only ever unkind. Your children from the same background. They only ever play with children from the same background. They celebrate different events. They up different holidays larkin lot of things at they even play different sports that in those separate schools alot that follow national curriculum. There's a different focus so in a catholic school you learn marriage in a stint school. You won't in school. You learn history from particularly a british.