Unionists lift two-year blockade on Northern Ireland self-government. The DUP kept autonomous institutions paralyzed in protest against the post-Brexit protocol signed between the United Kingdom and the EU.
In May 2022, Sinn Féin achieved historic victory in the Northern Ireland regional elections for the first time. As a result, unionism is facing a unionism divided by the Good Friday Agreement, the result of which implied that the two main political currents in the region would share a government. The Good Friday Peace Agreement of 1998 put an end to decades of violent conflict between unionists and republicans.