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EXAMINER dealbeforeOctober31. posal as “anti- the Defense Forces Training Center Associate Publisher
backstop pro-
remained a chance of finding a
a Nato anti-terrorist course held at
Editor
Grahame Curtis
democratic”,
The proposal would put a
in Co Kildare.
but said she
deadline on the backstop
The exercises were designed to
IRISH arrangement required by the believed a House of Commons and is assess the students’ skill sets and Marc-Yves Tumin
“way forward” existed –
News Editor
European Union to avoid a
included personnel from a wide
David Carter
acceptable to Europe.”
hard border in Ireland – but it
claiming it was possible to
has previously been rejected find a deal “even at this late However, she remained range of backgrounds, including the Arts & Entertainment Editor
Defense Forces and An Garda
by the government. stage”. adamant that Northern Siochana. Brad Balfour
Mrs Foster told a Policy “I firmly believe that there Ireland had to “leave on the Also taking part were military Sales Director
Exchange fringe event at the is a way forward, that if the same terms as the rest of the and law enforcement personnel John O’Rourke
Conservative Party confer- European Union and the United Kingdom” in relation from Austria, Italy, the Netherlands,
ence in Manchester: “In Republic of Ireland govern- to customs arrangements. Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, the Classified Advertising
John O’Rourke
terms of the time-limited ment in particular care about “We cannot have internal USA and Qatar.
backstop, can I remind you protecting the Belfast customs borders within the Students received instruction Art Director
what Leo Varadkar thinks of Agreement as they say they United Kingdom… it has from both national and international Heidi Gross Kelley
the time-limited backstop – are, then they need to constitutional implications as experts in terrorism. C Contributors
Joe Murphy, Joe Kavanagh, C.S.
he says it is not a backstop at acknowledge that the back- well as economic implica- O’Brien, Mike Fitzpatrick, Seamus
all. stop will not do it for tions. Ireland’s First Plastics’ ‘Reverse Kelleher, Bert Randolph Sugar, John
“And so in terms of the Northern Ireland or indeed “Actually when you think Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
time-limited backstop we the rest of the United of the amount of trade we do Vending Machine’ Installed Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
have said in the past it is Kingdom and therefore we East-West and West-East it In Co. Monaghan Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
something we would look at. need to find a new way for- completely blows out of the Ireland’s first reverse vending Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
Daly, Jim McKeon
“I don’t think it is some- ward.” water the North-South machine has started operating in Co
thing that Leo Varadkar Mrs Foster, whose party trade. Monaghan. Contributing Photographers
would look at, but certainly if props-up Boris Johnson’s “I’m not saying the North- The vending machine allows peo- Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
Wong
a time-limited backstop was minority government, later South trade is not important ple to bring their clean and empty
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Concentrating in: when it comes to recycling their
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