Irish unity should be Fine Gael’s ‘mission’, Leo Varadkar tells party
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In the news today:

* Irish unity should be Fine Gael’s ‘mission’, Leo Varadkar tells party.
Leo Varadkar has told the Fine Gael party that Irish reunification should be the party’s “mission” and that it can happen in his lifetime.

* NI political turmoil leading to 'uncharted waters' over Covid rules, say Swann.
Health Minister Robin Swann has admitted he does not know who will have the authority to make changes to coronavirus rules in the absence of the Northern Ireland Executive.

* Leading Brexiteers Kate Hoey and Ben Habib to address loyalist rally in NI.
Two key figures who backed the legal action against the Northern Ireland Protocol, are set to speak at a loyalist rally in Northern Ireland this weekend.

* Jonny McCambridge: Did music really end around 1995?
Throughout the long pandemic struggle we have all developed our own ways of coping with the disruption to the lives we knew before.

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