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Democratic Unionist Party deputy leader Nigel Dodds, pictured with party leader Arlene Foster, has been embroiled in a bitter and brutal battle with Sinn Féin’s John Finucane in North Antrim. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP via Getty Images
How Northern Ireland will vote: Election 2019 predictions

People in Northern Ireland are pretty fired up for this Westminster contest and that is illustrated by the fact that there are more than 50,000 additi(...)

DUP leader Arlene Foster with deputy leader Nigel Dodds at the launch of the party’s manifesto in Belfast. The party’s MP Paul Girvan should have enough to hold on to his seat in South Antrim. File photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
South Antrim: DUP likely to prevail despite voters’ anger

South Antrim is a constituency where since the start of this Millennium the DUP and the Ulster Unionists have fought great battles to win the seat, wi(...)

The Green Party, which had already stepped aside in a number of constituencies in favour of other pro-Remain candidates, is to stand in three constituencies. Photograph: iStock
More than 100 candidates to contest North’s 18 constituencies in election

A total of 102 candidates are to contest Northern Ireland’s 18 constituencies in the general election on December 12th. Nominations closed on Thursda(...)

Margaret Thatcher considered Fr Ryan, above, to be the main channel between the IRA and Libya for a decade. Photograph: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Unionists seek extradition of priest who became IRA bomb maker

Unionists in Northern Ireland have called for the extradition from the Republic of Ireland of a former priest turned IRA member who admitted obtaining(...)

Mike Nesbitt: among the former Ulster Unionist Party leaders who joined 400 delegates at the party’s annual conference in the Armagh City Hotel on Saturday. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Peace process took serious toll on UUP

Three former Ulster Unionist Party leaders – Mike Nesbitt, Tom Elliott and Reg Empey – joined 400 delegates at the party’s annual conference in the Ar(...)

Alliance candidate for West Belfast Sorcha Eastwood casts her vote in the 2017 General Election, with her husband, Dale Shirlow, in tow. Photograph: PA
London and Dublin eye election result for NI political progress

As counting continues to decide the identity of 18 Northern Ireland MPs to be elected to the House of Commons, Dublin and London were monitoring the r(...)

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn arriving to cast his vote in the UK general election at a polling station in Pakeman school in Islington, north London on Thursday. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
Following UK election night? This is what you need to know

With divergent opinion polls pointing to everything from a Conservative landslide to a hung parliament, nobody can confidently predict the outcome of (...)

Arlene Foster has urged unionists to rally behind the DUP to demonstrate to Sinn Féin that there is little or no prospect of a referendum on unity succeeding. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
More than 700,000 expected to vote in Northern Ireland Westminster election

More than 700,000 voters are expected to go to the polls in Northern Ireland on Thursday to decide which 18 MPs will be elected to the next Westminste(...)

There are more than 1.2 million eligible to vote in this week’s general election in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland: what you need to know about the election

Northern Ireland voters will cast their ballots on Thursday for the seventh time in three years (one council, one EU referendum, one European, two Ass(...)

Election posters for Michelle Gildernew of Sinn Féin and Tom Elliott of the UUP. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images
Fermanagh-South Tyrone: Can UUP incumbent keep Sinn Féin out?

British prime minister Theresa May’s decision to call a snap Westminster election was not received too graciously by Tom Elliott, who lives in Ballina(...)

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