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Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares an open border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. At the 2021 census, its population was 1,903,175, making up around 3% of the UK's population and 27% of the population on the island of Ireland. The Northern Ireland Assembly, established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998, holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the UK Government.
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Northern Ireland was blighted for three decades by conflict between largely Catholic, pro-Irish republicans and Protestant, pro-U.K. unionists.
The Prime Minister said there have been ‘big gains made in Northern Ireland, and we don’t want to see things go backwards’.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham appealed for calm in Northern Ireland as thousands gathered in Portadown to block an Orange Order march cleared by a late-night c