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Anger and division among loyalists over the Northern Ireland protocol
The guns are still packed away, but the threat is there
|BELFAST
THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT of 1998 brought peace to Northern Ireland after 30 years of bloodshed. But rather than removing the gun from society, it pushed it out of view. Thanks to Brexit, and a new border in the Irish Sea to which the British government agreed in order to avoid a hard one on the island of Ireland, the threat of violence has re-emerged.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “A polite threat”
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