On some walls of Shankill, loyalist slogans have been renewed.
There is another war to be waged, the continuation of the one waged by the ancients.
In the Unionist district which faces that of Falls, a republican bastion emblematic of the conflict, it is a paper enemy that is targeted and scolded.
This hated "protocol", which threatens to widen the gap between Ulster and the rest of the United Kingdom.
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Against a background of azure waves, a banner affirms that "
Shankill says no to a border in the Irish Sea
".
Negotiated as part of Brexit, the Northern Irish protocol de facto maintains Northern Ireland in the European customs union and single market.
It is a question of preventing the return of a physical border on the island of Ireland, which would risk weakening the peace agreement of 1998. But it imposes of this fact controls between the province and Great Britain , an unbearable break in territorial continuity for loyalist militants.
A banner proclaims: "
The Belfast Accord
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