Earlier on Friday, campaigners and politicians from Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic gathered at Stormont to oppose any change to abortion laws on the island of Ireland.
The British flag has long been a flashpoint between British loyalists and Irish nationalists, who want Northern Ireland to join the Irish republic.
Ulster Bank has 1.9m customers in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic and other parts of the United Kingdom.
Any agreement to be endorsed by nationalists, and certainly by the more hardline republicans, will have to contain cross-border institutions linking Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic.
The British security forces had no desire to see the reopening of the Aghalane Bridge, a major link between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, according to newly-released documents from the Public Record Office in Belfast.
The bomb went off two months after voters in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic approved a peace agreement between the British and Irish governments and eight provincial political parties representing both the Catholic and Protestant communities.
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After several days, the crew were taken to Cork before they were driven from the neutral Irish Republic into Northern Ireland where they were handed over to the RAF.
On Tuesday, flights into and out of the Irish Republic, Northern Ireland and Scotland's Hebrides were suspended at the first sign of an increase of volcanic ash levels in the skies.
Three men who were caught with guns in a car had dug them up in Northern Ireland and were taking them to the Irish Republic to re-bury them in a safer place, a court has been told.
Commenting following the publication of the report, Eamonn Donaghy of the Northern Ireland Economic Reform Group said that the Irish Republic had "fought tooth and nail" to keep its corporation tax rate of 12.5% in negotiations over its economic future last year.
The law on abortion is a breach of the human rights of every Irish woman in both Northern Ireland and the republic.
Compass said the Rangeland burgers had been supplied to 13 sites in the Irish Republic and 27 in Northern Ireland, mostly offices but including two unnamed secondary schools.
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The Christian Brothers have had a strong link with Irish education for more than 60 years and ran many schools in the Irish Republic and some in Northern Ireland.
Sinn Fein dismiss this as idle media chatter among bored journalists, and the theory that a politician from Northern Ireland can't win votes in the Irish Republic is branded "partitionist".
The closest it could come was by borrowing a calculation of a similar move for Northern Ireland, suggesting that a cut to the Irish Republic's corporation tax rate of 12.5% would raise growth rates in the province by 1% each year, and create 58, 000 jobs by 2030.
Until 1999 the Irish Republic claimed the whole island of Ireland under its constitution, but it did not act on it.
Up to 18, 000 jobs could be created if Northern Ireland attracted the same level of tourism as the Irish Republic, according to a survey.
It also runs a retreat and conference centre at Dromantine near Newry in Northern Ireland and two parishes in Cork city in the Irish Republic.
When details of the horsemeat contamination scandal first broke in the Republic of Ireland on 16 January, Irish food processors claimed the contaminated meat products had been supplied by companies in Poland.
When details of the horsemeat contamination scandal first broke in the Republic of Ireland on 16 January, Irish food processers claimed the contaminated meat products had been supplied by companies in Poland.
At the start of this month APD was reduced for direct long-haul flights from Northern Ireland, in response to competition from services in the Irish Republic, which has an Air Travel Tax of just three euros to any destination.
The current Republic of Ireland manager is contracted to remain with the Irish until 2012, and would already be heading for South Africa, were it not for the infamous events in Paris in November surrounding Thierry Henry's handball, which saw France qualify at Ireland's expense.
Mr Wilson rose to international prominence in the aftermath of the bombing and in 1993, he accepted an Irish government invitation to become a member of the Republic of Ireland's Senate.
It was the same with Jack Charlton and the Republic Ireland in the late 80s and early 90s with the Irish making it to the final stages of major tournaments for the first time.
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There was further Irish involvement, too, with the presence of the Republic of Ireland's ambassador to France.
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It revealed tourism in Northern Ireland currently generated almost 2% of total turnover compared to 7% in the Irish Republic.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said the meat had come from two processing plants in the Irish Republic - Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods - and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in Yorkshire.
The 65-page document, signed in Belfast in 1998, led to the Northern Ireland assembly and executive being set up, new cross-border institutions involving the Irish Republic and a body linking devolved assemblies across the UK with Westminster and Dublin.
The Irish Republic also dropped its constitutional claim to the six counties which form Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland responded that it was in a unique position because of competition for investment from the Irish Republic with its low tax rate of 12.5%.
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