evidence: THE BRITISH Government have reignited a territorial dispute with Ireland over Lough Foyle, on the boundary between Northern Ireland and the Republic. [...] The DFA statement revealed that talks over Lough Foyle stretched back to 2011, when the then British Foreign Secretary and Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs opened discussions over their respective rights to the territory. [...] 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.