Democratic Unionist Party

Newton Emerson: The awkward truth about London’s intervention on NI’s abortion issue

Order to Stormont’s Department of Health most assertive override of devolution since St Andrews Agreement

Kathy Sheridan: Brexit serves up a warning on a Border poll

Right now, the don’t knows and undecideds seem by far the most sane and rational of thinkers

Protestants who find Irish unity ‘impossible to accept’ more likely to be male and working class

Poll findings suggest opposition to Irish unification among Protestant unionists is widely prevalent and intense

Stormont recalled as MLAs put pressure on DUP to drop powersharing boycott

Several previous attempts to reconstitute the Assembly have already failed

North and South: Ireland is divided on the unity question

Inside Politics podcast: When should a referendum on Irish unity be held, and how would citizens north and south vote?

Northern Ireland now ruled by a civil service that appears to be completely dysfunctional

Civil service mechanism that governed North for 33 of last 50 years is back. With all its flaws

Once the home of Edward Carson, the Ulster Hall never saw a night like this

Thousands flock to bastion of Ulster unionism to discuss prospects for united Ireland

DUP minister tried to dilute UK bill to keep gains from NI protocol, letter shows

Former DUP leader Edwin Poots lobbied the British government to dilute legislation arguing that the region’s farmers would be better off under the protocol.

NI Assembly members’ salaries to be cut by up to a third under new legislation

Bill will also ensure public services keep running in absence of devolved government

Rise in DUP support over protocol is where bad news begins for Donaldson

Doubts are growing over whether Jeffrey Donaldson will support a EU-UK deal that is likely to fall far short of unionist expectations

Newton Emerson: Why doesn’t Sinn Féin want Stormont reform?

Alliance’s proposal for opt-out coalition, where largest parties guaranteed place, gets around obstacles

NI Secretary’s election extension kicks political can down the road

Heaton-Harris playing for time in hope of resolving long-running and divisive protocol impasse

The Irish Times view on the Northern Ireland protocol: it is past time to do a deal

There are signs of progress in negotiations on the protocol but there is a way to go yet and it is unclear if a deal can break the political stalemate in Northern Ireland

Justine McCarthy: DUP is holding Stormont to ransom for a demand most people in NI do not want

Referendum should be put to people of NI: do you want Stormont’s mandatory coalition to continue?

NI parties unnerved by realisation Heaton-Harris is not in command of his brief

It is painfully apparent he was left in post for party management reasons as former chair of ERG of Brexiteers

Former taoiseach warns against holding Irish unity referendum

Bertie Ahern says that even nationalists would vote no to Irish unity unless all the necessary preparatory work is completed

DUP urges London to ‘double down’ on efforts to end protocol impasse rather than having fresh NI election

Michelle O’Neill says DUP is ‘hiding behind’ protocol to avoid Sinn Féin-led government

Lack of devolved government could expand Irish role in Northern Ireland, Taoiseach says

Unionists will never accept joint authority from Dublin and London, Donaldson says

Return to direct rule ‘unacceptable’ if DUP collapses assembly - Varadkar

Northern Ireland Assembly meets today in an almost certainly doomed bid to form an Executive

Late push to avoid North election as Stormont recalled

The Northern Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris is expected on Friday to call an election for Northern Ireland as the deadline for parties to agree an administration runs out

Newton Emerson: The wrong threat is being used against the DUP over its Stormont boycott

The rise of the unaligned centre in Northern Ireland politics has made reform of Belfast Agreement structures imperative

Majority of voters in North want Stormont restored

Just three in 10 voters in Northern Ireland want the protocol scrapped before an executive is established

An Assembly election confirming the status quo would be a waste of time

Round table talks involving the North’s main political parties, the two governments and the EU required to solve the protocol impasse

Fintan O’Toole: Who dares to speak of recent history?

When it comes to the Troubles, many of the antagonists have a common interest in not looking too hard.

Baker calls on DUP to enter Stormont and avoid election that would ‘waste time and money’

Party urged to ‘count on us’ to negotiate and achieve a deal ‘that works for us all’

London instability damaging Republic-UK relationship, says Simon Coveney

Minister for Foreign Affairs notes working with six Northern secretaries, five foreign secretaries and four PMs in five years

Taoiseach appeals to DUP to restore powersharing in Stormont as election deadline looms in North

Martin asks Jeffrey Donaldson’s party to “honour the democratic mandate that has been given”

Jeffrey Donaldson asks Taoiseach to use influence to stop pro-IRA chants

DUP leader says those singing the songs were poking unionists and victims of terrorism in the eye

DUP will not re-enter North’s powersharing unless protocol demands met

Leader Jeffrey Donaldson tells party conference the UK government needs to ‘tread sensitively and act wisely’ to rebuild unionist confidence

Fintan O’Toole: Liz Truss’s hollowing out of Britishness surely alarms unionists

UK’s government may look like comedy act, but there will be nothing funny about way it kills off the welfare state

The challenges facing the DUP at the party’s conference this weekend

Much has changed over the last three years — turmoil within the DUP saw it oust one leader, and then another

Liz Truss implosion throws DUP plans into disarray

The DUP’s calculations on returning to Stormont have been thrown into disarray by Liz Truss's early implosion

Rock and hard place of polarising sectarianism have crashed into each other

The SDLP and the UUP, the ‘moderate’ wings of unionism and nationalism, are being pulverised by the joint inflexibilities of the DUP and SF

Conor Burns: The Tory minister from a nationalist family on rebuilding relationships between Britain and Ireland

Tory minister from a nationalist Belfast family says the protocol and the broken relationship of the British and Irish governments must be fixed

DUP blocks third attempt to elect Stormont speaker

Sinn Féin vice-president describes boycott as ‘unforgivable’, while SDLP MLA calls unionist stance ‘preposterous’

Council opens investigation into death of man in fall from bonfire in Larne

More than £6,000 raised to support family of John Steele, who died in incident on local authority land in Antiville estate

No point in EU negotiations with lame duck Johnson

All Brussels will see in the Autumn is an untested prime minister, an election in the offing and an unholy mess. It will wait and see

London Letter: Belfast banter in Westminster reveals protocol home truths

Since protocol Bill was introduced the DUP’s romance with the Conservatives is back on again

UK delays Bill to unilaterally scrap parts of NI protocol

Disagreement emerges over form of legislation and concerns about DUP position

Dispute over NI protocol appears ‘manufactured’ – Richard Neal

UK overriding Brexit deal would be act of ‘bad faith’, says Democrat US congressman