Despite his denials, secret documents discovered by the Belfast Telegraph show that the Government believed Noel Litt...
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Contrary to Peter Robinson’s claim that the UK Government was hiring a mercenary to murder him after his ‘invasion’ o...
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Almost half of the DUP’s candidates for Newtownabbey Borough Council in 1993 had some links to loyalist paramilitaris...
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Peter Robinson privately briefed the NIO on his desire to re-enter political talks in the early 1990s and worked with...
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It was the moment the DUP was meant to trumpet its great victory for the Union — but instead visually demonstrated ho...
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Almost a year before the DUP appointed its first Executive ministers, the NIO privately knew Ian Paisley’s party was ...
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Late on the morning of December 7, 1983, students and lecturers were coming and going on Queen’s University’s campus,...
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Myths can be born in an instant but persist for millennia. How the Troubles started and how they escalated is the sub...
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He’s a Paisleyite, a founding member of the DUP, a former special adviser to Nigel Dodds, and a leading evangelical P...
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For the second time in its history, the DUP’s deputy leader is a Robinson. If Gavin Robinson does as well as Peter Ro...
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The DUP should have talked directly to Sinn Féin before it did, even though that would have dismayed the supporters o...
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In the weeks leading up to Good Friday 1998 the mood within unionism gave little indication David Trimble would be ab...
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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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The most compelling reason to believe that Irish unity might happen is not that nationalists are likely to win a bord...
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The DUP MP Ian Paisley has introduced a Bill into the House of Commons seeking to require a so-called ‘supermajority’...
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Almost seven years ago, the DUP hierarchy were lords of all they surveyed.
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A potential visit by President Joe Biden to Ireland at Easter to mark the 25-year anniversary of the Good Friday Agre...
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One of the principal architects of the Belfast Agreement ending decades of conflict in Northern Ireland has died at t...
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Northern Ireland needs to make the most of its unique economic position, including exploiting the opportunities offer...
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DUP MP Ian Paisley has quoted a line from Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar nominated Belfast as part of his attempt to persuad...
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When one of Ian Paisley’s most astute biographers was attempting to convey the novelty of how the cleric had melded t...
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A DUP MP has accused Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney of being a trouble-maker, not a problem solver, on post-Bre...
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