There have been “scandalous” failings by Newry, Mourne and Down council to give financial help to business owners in ...
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The Secretary of State said the “great work” at Stormont must continue after the resignation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.
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Three days ago, a remarkable Westminster power grab took place — but the DUP and Sinn Fein were in complete acquiesce...
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Alliance leader Naomi Long has warned that Stormont is condemned to “death by a thousand collapses” without major ref...
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It’s a measure of what we now accept as normal that two Stormont departments — Education and Communities — were liter...
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The new Finance Minister has said it’s “not acceptable” for the Treasury to make writing-off £559m in Executive debt ...
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An uninsured driver tried to claim that Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris had provided his insurance cover after...
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As important as it was for Sir Jeffrey Donaldson to win over his party to restoring Stormont, that was never where hi...
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Business has a litany of asks of an incoming Executive, such as rates and planning reform, more capital spending on i...
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Few people yet comprehend the scale of the mass strike which is going to cripple Northern Ireland’s public and privat...
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Half a century after a mass strike toppled devolved government in Northern Ireland, a mass strike might restore devol...
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The DUP is stalling on a deal, irritating those who want to see devolved government back by Christmas – but that’s no...
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The DUP has been “plain stupid” in any economic plan to support Brexit and later boycott devolved government, a retir...
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Gordon Brown once said that when he came to Belfast he would “feel the hand of history on my shoulders, and the hand ...
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Whatever Rishi Sunak’s reason for keeping Chris Heaton-Harris in post, it can’t have been because a single person in ...
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Pressure is mounting on civil servants or the Secretary of State to urgently act over a failure to make a technical c...
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The GAA’s Ulster Council has been unable to clarify which contractor will carry out the time-sensitive rebuild of wes...
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If the Irish Sea border was a person, it would have been groaning in dismay at hearing Chris Heaton-Harris try to def...
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There’s an end of days feel to Northern Ireland. It’s not that Irish unity is necessarily looming, but that dramatic ...
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Footfall in Northern Ireland shops slumped by nearly 5% in August as the cost of living crisis continued to bite, a r...
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What does a political party leader do when he believes he should do X but his supporters love him doing Y?
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Chris Heaton-Harris has responded defiantly to the suggestion that he might be part of the problem with restoring Sto...
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Cathal Geoghegan is hoping his tenure as president of the NI Chamber is different to that of his predecessor in one i...
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The Secretary of State has refused to clarify or retract claims he made about the transportation of plants across the...
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For years, it has been received wisdom that Sinn Fein’s southern ambitions mean it needs to be in Stormont to show so...
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The Secretary of State’s list of 10 areas in which the people of Northern Ireland might be taxed more or lose free st...
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Few of us want to think about what happens when we flush the toilet, or what is necessary to ensure clean water comes...
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Northern Ireland is experiencing what the body representing head teachers describes as a “catastrophic failure of gov...
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Budgets might sound boring, but this one is going to impact everyone in Northern Ireland: it will mean less money for...
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He may have called Northern Ireland “the world’s most exciting economic zone”, but after the Budget set by his Cabine...
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His face was well known among those sector leaders promoting members’ interests during Brexit negotiations and follow...
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A form of direct rule is needed within weeks if power-sharing isn’t urgently restored, the body which represents Stor...
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The ‘Stormont Brake’ legislation sounds like a unionist veto, but it clearly isn’t.
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Brexit has emphasised how politics impacts the way in which we live our lives: what we eat, where we travel, whether ...
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The Government will be “bound” to veto new EU laws if 30 MLAs in the Assembly ask them to do so, the Secretary of Sta...
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Behind the scenes in the DUP this week, there have been heated arguments between some of the party’s senior Westminst...
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It is a venue where royalty — actual and also showbiz — have tied the knot down the years.
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The secretary of state has used the prospect of passing ‘Dáithí’s Law’ as the latest way to put pressure on the DUP t...
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