Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson and former Sinn Féin MLA Daithí McKay cleared in Nama misconduct trial
Then SF activist Thomas O’Hara also cleared in case related to 2015 Stormont finance committee hearing over £1.2bn property sale
Stormont Assembly
You might as well expect Conor McGregor and Paul Murphy to work together as Stormont to function
Stormont is broken and the public is paying the price
‘People don’t care that much’: Frustrated sighs audible as students asked the ‘British or Irish’ question
Lagan College opened during the dark days of the Troubles as Catholic and Protestant parents wanted their children to learn together
Stormont is slow, afraid of new thinking and costly, says report
Former ministers and senior civil servants outline litany of failures, blockages and short-sightedness in Assembly and Executive
PSNI given emergency Stormont cash to tackle anti-immigration riots
All parties in executive ‘on the same page’ in condemning ‘violent racism’, Michelle O’Neill said
Larne violence: ‘I thought Northern Ireland was past this, beyond balaclavas’
Arson attack on leisure centre marked third night of disorder in North after alleged sexual assault of girl
The DUP couldn’t have chosen a worse moment to get tough on immigration
The party may have unleashed sentiments that carry it swiftly to the right
Disorder in Ballymena ‘clearly racially motivated’, PSNI says
Fifteen police injured after being targeted with petrol bombs, bricks and masonry during protest in Co Antrim town
Stormont rules were subverted to cause ‘political embarrassment’ to Peter Robinson, Nama trial hears
Trial of loyalist activist Jamie Bryson and former Sinn Féin MLA Daithí McKay gets under way in Belfast
UK and Irish governments ‘working intensively’ to find agreement on legacy issues
Tánaiste engaging with Northern Ireland secretary on trying to deliver a ‘joint framework agreement’
Minister to outline scale of reform to Northern Ireland employment legislation
Employers argue timing for many proposed measures in ‘Good Jobs’ Bill is terrible while unions say NI simply catching up on Britain and Republic
Downsizing is fine in theory. In reality, it’s rearranging property deckchairs on the Titanic
Today’s downsizers are closer to 70 and in no mood to rewire and replaster. They want a new build, which means they’ll be outbidding younger couples on a three-bed semi
How CS Lewis’s Irish childhood influenced the Chronicles of Narnia
The author of the classic children’s stories left Belfast as a boy, but his homeland remained a powerful force in his imagination
Legacy Act appeal expected to be heard by UK Supreme Court before summer
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 is opposed by many victims’ groups
The Belfast train station signs in Irish that are testing Stormont’s shaky foundations
Row over Belfast’s Grand Central Station adding Irish to displays and ticket machines reinforces Assembly’s vulnerability to identity politics
Billions of overspend on large-scale projects in North ‘unacceptable and unsustainable’
Stormont’s Public Accounts Committee scrutinised hospitals, roads and other works
Work on Irish language signs in Belfast train station halted due to potential legal action
Plan for signs prompted dispute among Stormont Executive ministers
DUP to put ‘marker down’ at Executive against Irish language signs at Belfast’s Grand Central Station
DUP leader Gavin Robinson says installation of signage is ‘clearly a controversial matter’
Reforms that undermine Belfast Agreement will be ‘dangerous’, experts warn
Northern Ireland facing a ‘mounting list of problems in healthcare, public finance and other aspects of good governance’, new report says
Anger in Northern Ireland at welfare cuts to balance budget books
Concern in Stormont over Rachel Reeves’ spring statement as higher numbers of people rely on welfare support in NI than UK average
‘Absolute fear’: UK’s planned benefit cuts alarm vulnerable people in Northern Ireland
Labour’s proposed ‘shake-up’ of the welfare system raises the prospect of people with disabilities losing supports for their personal independence
Threatening graffiti targeting Stormont member ‘a sign of desperation’ by ‘isolated far right’
People Before Profit’s Gerry Carroll says he will not be deterred ‘by a pathetic minority who skulk around under cover of darkness’
UN calls for stronger measures to combat intimidation of migrants by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland
Committee highlights particular concerns around segregation and access to adequate housing
Stormont publishes first programme for government in over a decade
Hundred-page document outlines plans to tackle North’s spiralling waiting lists
Stormont ministers agree North’s programme for government
Ministers rubber-stamp the governance plan during a virtual meeting
A British defence spending bonanza will present Sinn Féin with a dilemma
Keir Starmer has been advised to raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP, which could be paid for by slashing social welfare
Over 60,000 birds to be slaughtered after suspected avian flu case detected in Co Tyrone
Housing orders for poultry and captive birds to come into effect across Ireland from midnight
Trump may just have put an end to peace process absurdities
Trump has transformed expectations of what can be done, even if his administration ultimately fails to deliver it
Sinn Féin reshuffles Stormont front bench following Conor Murphy’s election to Seanad
Labour is ‘more engaged’ with devolved institutions than Tories, Stormont’s First Minister says
Architecture of the Belfast Agreement is dying of disinterest
There are worse fates for the agreement than fading into irrelevance, but it would be dangerous not to acknowledge this is happening
‘It’s the sort of thing you can’t believe has happened’: Tree crashes on Derry home during Storm Éowyn
About 56,000 households in North were without electricity at 4.30pm on Monday afternoon, according to Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) Networks
Northern Ireland weather: Over 240,000 homes and businesses without power due to Storm Éowyn
Red warning in effect until 2pm with schools closed and tens of thousands of properties without power
UK government refuses unionist request to use post-Brexit Stormont Brake
DUP leader Gavin Robinson accuses UK government of ‘surrendering to EU diktats’
Conor Murphy’s puzzling move to the Seanad crystallises sense of an unsettled Stormont
Sinn Féin says Murphy will use his new position to advance ‘Irish unity debate in the Oireachtas’, yet he has vastly more scope to do so as a Stormont Minister
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