Ireland's Varadkar says reassured by May over DUP deal

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It is understood that potential lead claimants have been warned to expect significant press attention - Miller has said the Brexit case made her the most hated woman in Britain - and that the claim will need to be crowdfunded.

Sinn Fein is not budging on its insistence that Arlene Foster can not return as Stormont first minister while a public inquiry into a botched green energy scheme is ongoing, Gerry Kelly has made clear. That would require the cooperation of Sinn Fein and the DUP.

"I offer the condolences of the Irish people and the Irish Government to the British people on the enormous tragedies this this country and city has faced in recent weeks", Mr Varadkar said.

Further questioned if there is room for compromise on the issue during negotiations to re-establish powersharing, the north Belfast MLA reiterated that his party position has not changed.

Negotiations between the Conservatives and the DUP are still ongoing to form what Mrs.

Theresa May has still not secured a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party to allow her Government programme to survive a Commons vote, a day before the Prime Minister sets out her legislative measures in the Queen's Speech.

The Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, also accused May of not honouring the Good Friday agreement after meeting the prime minister last week.

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Northern Ireland has been without a powersharing Executive since March and without a first and deputy first minister since January, when the late Martin McGuinness's resignation forced Mrs Foster from her job as first minister.

"We spoke about the very important need for both governments to be impartial actors when it comes to Northern Ireland, and also that we are co-guarantors to the Good Friday Agreement and that any agreement that may exist between the Conservative Party and the DUP should not in any way impact on the Good Friday Agreement".

"I think pretty much everyone in Ireland has somebody who lives here, who's a relative or a close friend", he said.

"Whatever happens there could have - we don't know if it will because we haven't seen any of what's going on - could have an impact on what's happening".

If the so-called "confidence and supply" agreement is challenged in the courts, judges would have to decide whether such a government would be unable to exercise "rigorous impartiality".

"There are lines of respect and dignity", he said.

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