Activists say Northern Irish citizens could fall into a 'legal grey area'.
A campaigner has insisted the UK shouldn’t just ‘throw the Good Friday Agreement under the bus’ to get a quick exit from the EU.
He said: ‘The Good Friday Agreement gave us peace, normality and a shared future no matter what – we could be British, we could be Irish and we could be both.’ Speaking outside the Northern Ireland Office in Westminster, Mr Hughes, who now lives in Lewisham, south London, said the murder of journalist Lyra McKee has shown ‘just how fragile’ peace is.He said: ‘We need to show the Government that they cannot just throw the Good Friday Agreement under the bus to pursue a myopic Brexit agenda.
Mr Hughes warned how the current leadership vacuum in Northern Ireland ‘has allowed dissidents to rear their ugly heads’ and how no one wants to go back to borders and violence. But Ms DeSouza and her husband Jake were told after their 2015 wedding that his application for a family member residence card to stay in Northern Ireland had been rejected because she applied for the visa as an Irish national.
Following a silence held in memory of Ms McKee at the rally, Mr Hughes said they want the Government to recognise the ‘special circumstances’ of Northern Ireland citizens.
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