Flanagan: €1.2m funds vital to support ‘fragile’ peace process

All-Ireland forum on Brexit will not work unless DUP prepared to participate, Minister says

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‘I don’t think you can have a workable forum unless everybody is prepared to sit around the table and participate.’ Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan said. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times

‘I don’t think you can have a workable forum unless everybody is prepared to sit around the table and participate.’ Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan said. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times

Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan said the €1.2m in State funding announced on Friday for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland is vital to support the “fragile peace process”.

“This funding is very important in spite of the very acute economic recession that the country suffered over the past number of years it has been somewhat remarkable that we have been able to continue grant aiding many of the cross community programmes in Northern Ireland,”he told Newstalk Breakfast.

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