For Belfast, ‘America First’ Amounts to ‘Northern Ireland Last’
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For Belfast, ‘America First’ Amounts to ‘Northern Ireland Last’
Mr. Farry said that Brexit itself wasn’t the direct cause of this d
That in turn, politicians and researchers said, could undermine recent economic progress in Northern Ireland — one of the critical buffers against renewed unrest in a region where over 3,600 people were killed in the last 30 years of the 20th century during a sectarian conflict between Catholic nationalists who sought unification with southern Ireland
and Protestant "unionists" who wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom.
Most immediately, if the Bombardier decision is upheld next year, "America first" is being interpreted
in Belfast as "Northern Ireland last." "It’s really shocked people," said Mr. Burnside, 56.
10, 2017
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — When President Trump championed his "America first" trade policy during the election campaign, George Burnside could not have known
that he, a veteran aircraft fitter, would be among the policy’s first potential casualties.
Mr. Farry said that Brexit itself wasn’t the direct cause of this d
That in turn, politicians and researchers said, could undermine recent economic progress in Northern Ireland — one of the critical buffers against renewed unrest in a region where over 3,600 people were killed in the last 30 years of the 20th century during a sectarian conflict between Catholic nationalists who sought unification with southern Ireland
and Protestant "unionists" who wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom.
Most immediately, if the Bombardier decision is upheld next year, "America first" is being interpreted
in Belfast as "Northern Ireland last." "It’s really shocked people," said Mr. Burnside, 56.
10, 2017
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — When President Trump championed his "America first" trade policy during the election campaign, George Burnside could not have known
that he, a veteran aircraft fitter, would be among the policy’s first potential casualties.