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North Antrim: TUV may fall just short of grabbing second seat
- Politics
- April 14, 2016, 15:30
North Antrim is associated with the Paisleys – the late DUP leader and First Minister, the Rev Ian, who was MP there for 40 years until his son, Ian (...)

Mike Nesbitt not excluding chance he may be First Minister
- Politics
- April 14, 2016, 15:12
Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt has not ruled out the possibility that he rather than Arlene Foster or Martin McGuinness would be Northern I(...)

Belfast South: Intense rivalry as parties jostle for position
- Politics
- April 14, 2016, 12:30
South Belfast is one of the most competitive of all the North’s 18 constituencies in this Northern Ireland Assembly election. There will be intense(...)

North Down: Greens face big battle as UUP target second seat
- Politics
- April 14, 2016, 11:30
North Down is a predominantly unionist constituency – one which has never elected a nationalist MLA. Located on the Ards Peninsula, bordering the s(...)

Newton Emerson: Tory-hating is the last bastion of Anglophobia
- Opinion
- April 14, 2016, 00:10
Strictly speaking, there are almost no Tories in Northern Ireland. The Conservative Party consistently polls below 1 per cent. In 2010, when it stood (...)

DUP scaremongering is ‘wearing thin’, Jim Allister says
- Irish News
- April 13, 2016, 15:03
The DUP’s warning to unionists that a failure to vote for the party could result in Martin McGuinness taking the First Minister post is “wearing thin”(...)

Strangford: UUP target is to win – and this time hold – second seat
- Politics
- April 13, 2016, 07:00
Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt is anxious to win back the party’s second seat it dropped when David McNarry defected to Ukip after the las(...)

East Antrim: Ukip can take advantage of anti-EU sentiment
- Politics
- April 13, 2016, 06:00
Expect to see the presence of Nigel Farage in some of the towns of East Antrim, such as Larne and Carrickfergus, during the Northern Ireland Assembly(...)

John Bruton: Home rule could have led peacefully to independence
- Opinion
- April 8, 2016, 01:00
Home Rule, already law, could have led this part of Ireland peacefully to the same fully independent position Canada enjoys today, had it not been der(...)

Addiction, not debt, the scourge on streets of Belfast
- Social Affairs
- April 8, 2016, 01:00
Catherine Kenny’s life ended in the doorway of an empty shop last month in Belfast on Donegall Place just metres from the city’s majestic City Hall. (...)