The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has lifted a blockade of more than two years on the normal functioning of the self-government institutions. Sinn Féin will preside over the Northern Irish Government for the first time in its history.

“The unity of Ireland is within reach,” celebrates the president of the republican party on both sides of the invisible border. The new pact reached between the main unionist party and Downing Street eliminates the “green lines” designed by London and Brussels.