evidence: THE BRITISH Government have reignited a territorial dispute with Ireland over Lough Foyle, on the boundary between Northern Ireland and the Republic. [...] It said both Governments "agreed to seek to address and resolve jurisdictional issues relating to both Lough Foyle and Carlingford Lough", a smaller body of water which is also in dispute. [...] In 1927, the Chairman of the Irish Free State’s provisional government W.T. Cosgrave provoked the Britain by asserting that the entirety of Lough Foyle was Irish territory.