Quotes About Northern Ireland

Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.

Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'm not sad about it. It's fine.

I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

I was in and about the Northern Ireland team, I was a young boy, an up and coming star in the team!

I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.

I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground.

'Game of Thrones' was a game-changer for Northern Ireland. There's going to be a massive gap when it goes.

It was easy for some to jump on the Brexit result and use it to make a land-grab for Northern Ireland, and it was counterproductive.

No-one wants to see a return to the hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

Dragged out of your bed at the age of seven, my mother screaming, six kids under the age of 12. I'm not equating my experience with the people who lived in Northern Ireland. But my dad was always out and about late at night, and I could not go to sleep until I knew he was in.

Northern Ireland has a unique place in the Union. As the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement enshrined in law, the people of Northern Ireland can be British, Irish or neither.

The reality is that no Brexit deal can be achieved if Northern Ireland is never allowed to leave the Customs Union.

I think people from Northern Ireland have some kind of unspoken general feeling of what it is to be around segregation. You have an awareness of it because you know how much grief it's caused.

Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.

In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

Her Christianity was of that peculiarly Northern Ireland brand: whenever two or three are gathered together in my name some other poor bastard is going to get a good kicking. Salmon Rushdie and I, we understand fatwas.

When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

I remember politicians in Northern Ireland were sometimes called 'verbal incendiarists,' as they didn't actually do anything but they said certain things. So when you hear certain politicians using nasty language, that colours our lives. It makes some other people think it's OK to racially abuse people.