Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar pledged on Sunday to intensify efforts with his British counterpart Rishi Sunak to restore power-sharing government in Northern Ireland and hopes to break the deadlock there in the next few months.
The Democratic Unionist Party has said it will not drop a year-long boycott of the devolved assembly in protest at post-Brexit trade rules without further changes to aLondon has said it"We put a huge amount of effort in the last few months into getting an agreement on revisions and reforms to the protocol," Varadkar told national broadcaster RTE, referring to the checks on goods between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK that has angered many pro-British unionists.
Varadkar said he would work towards restoring the mandatory power-sharing government "in the next few months", noting that May's local council elections and the annual marching season in July - which often sparks sectarian tensions - could make an agreement more difficult in the short term.
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