NI: More than 80 lawyers sign Brexit open letter to Varadkar
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Niall Murphy
More than 80 lawyers and legal academics are among the 1,000 signatories of an open letter calling on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to ensure the rights of Irish citizens in Northern Ireland are protected after Brexit.
The letter has been published in a double-page advert in The Irish News today and follows similar initiatives last December and in February.
Solicitor Niall Murphy of KRW Law, one of the organisers of the letter, said it had been signed by “cross section of northern nationalist civic society and citizens from throughout Ireland reflecting many professions”.
He told BBC News: “We collectively seek to give expression to a deep sense of fear in respect of the current Brexit negotiations.
“The fear that partition in our island will be deepened by a border, due to a constitutional crisis that no Irish person has sought to provoke.
“We urge the taoiseach and the Irish government to stand firm in these negotiations, to stand up for the Good Friday Agreement and a rights based society and to ensure that rights enjoyed in Donegal will continue to be enjoyed in Derry and that a return to a border in Ireland will not be acceptable.”
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