welfare reform

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(Left - right) Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, former MP Michelle Gildernew, vice president Mary Lou McDonald and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness outside the Palace of Westminster in London on Tuesday. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire.
David Cameron meets Sinn Féin to discuss NI political deadlock

Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness have urged British prime minister David Cameron to provide Stormont with a “workable” budget in or(...)

Labour MP urges NI parties to agree on welfare reform

The British Labour Party has made it emphatically clear that neither Sinn Féin nor the SDLP will have it as an ally in their battle to compel the Bri(...)

DUP finance minister Arlene Foster. Ms Foster is to press ahead with a ‘fantasy budget’ in the North despite the refusal of Sinn Féin and the SDLP to sign up to its welfare reform element. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
DUP finance minister to press ahead with ‘fantasy’ budget

The North’s finance minister Arlene Foster is to present a budget in the Stormont Assembly next week despite the fact that Sinn Féin and the SDLP are(...)

Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said some SDLP Assembly members were defying Dr Alasdair McDonnell by tabling amendments. Photograph: PA
FF and SDLP attack SF over North-South stance on austerity

Fianna Fáil and the SDLP have accused Sinn Féin of opposing austerity in the South but supporting it in the North, as the consideration stage of the w(...)

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said yesterday that the political process “is in trouble” and faces “its greatest challenge since the Good Friday agreement negotiations in 1998”. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Gerry Adams warns NI political process ‘is in trouble’

Sinn Féin and the DUP are again at loggerheads after Gerry Adams yesterday warned that the powersharing Stormont administration is facing its most “s(...)

First Minister Peter Robinson claims that the interests of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland are regarded as subservient to their interests in the Dáil. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters
Robinson accuses Sinn Féin of putting Republic before NI

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson has accused Sinn F éin of refusing to move on welfare reform in the North (...)