Three days ago, a remarkable Westminster power grab took place — but the DUP and Sinn Fein were in complete acquiesce...
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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson faced ferocious criticism from senior party colleagues on Tuesday night, as his claims about th...
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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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A year from now, Sir Keir Starmer will almost certainly be Prime Minister. If rumours of a May 2 election are true, h...
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The work starts now on transforming Northern Ireland’s economy, new Economy Minister Conor Murphy has declared, while...
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A week ago the Assembly met for its first substantive session in two years. The speeches were mostly filled with opti...
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Work on the Larne border control post is pushing ahead despite last week’s DUP deal to return to Stormont.
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So long, winding and wearisome has the road from Brexit been that it is easy to lose sight of where we’ve come from a...
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Business has welcomed the substance of the deal between the Government and DUP, which ends routine checks on goods co...
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The UK government has announced a new internal market scheme with a body set up to encourage trade within the Union, ...
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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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What unfolded on Monday night was not just the humiliation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson by a man he thought he could outs...
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The DUP is alive with speculation and suspicion about what Sir Jeffrey Donaldson plans to do at tonight’s party execu...
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A fortnight before Christmas, a senior unionist rang about the DUP’s talks with the Government. At the end of the con...
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Small retailers in Britain trading through Amazon have threatened to stop selling to Northern Ireland due to impendin...
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A councillor who quit the DUP last week has said that the party is “obviously divided” over whether to return to Stor...
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After coming to Belfast to interview Michelle O’Neill in mid-2022, Henry Mance of the Financial Times observed: “Havi...
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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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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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The DUP once dismissed Jeffrey Donaldson as “Enoch Powell’s messenger boy” — and then he became their leader.
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Above a photo of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the Belfast Telegraph’s front page headline yesterday was stark: “We’re in no...
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Next week will mark the first in-person UK Space Conference since the pandemic, with Belfast playing host for the fir...
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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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Northern Ireland’s economy is expected to grow by around 0.6% in 2023, a rate second only to London across UK regions...
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Rarely can a political leader have been as disappointed at seeing their party’s support increase.
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Meta, Google and Microsoft representatives arrive in Belfast from the US today for an investment visit led by US Spec...
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A week-long strike by hundreds of government vets could cripple parts of the Northern Ireland economy and dramaticall...
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He’s been a cellist, has run an orchestra in Scotland and even launched a classical music label with Sir Richard Bran...
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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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What if the real Jeffrey Donaldson is not the man we’ve thought him to be? For years, Donaldson has widely been seen ...
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The UK’s Minister for Investment has said Northern Ireland’s dual market access to the UK and EU post-Brexit is a key...
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The man who was Stormont’s most senior official dealing with Brexit has said that the DUP needs to realise that the G...
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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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Tuna from Mauritius sourced as an alternative to Great Britain following Brexit took nine months to reach its Norther...
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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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