Lord Empey
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Flybe workers call for effort to save routes during Stormont protest
- Irish News
- March 11, 2020, 21:50
Flybe workers’ representatives in Northern Ireland have urged the British government and the Northern Executive to provide funding to secure routes ou(...)

UK Brexit proposals ‘unworkable and unenforceable’
- Irish News
- October 6, 2019, 18:56
The British government’s Brexit proposals are “unworkable and unenforceable”, the North’s former secretary of state, Peter Hain, has said. Speaking (...)

Brexit: UUP suggests proposals to replace Irish backstop
- Irish News
- September 1, 2019, 14:32
A former Ulster Unionist Party leader has proposed the creation of a new North-South ministerial body as a means of monitoring and regulating trade ac(...)

Legacy of Troubles brings ‘real challenges’ to island relations – Donaldson
- Politics
- May 13, 2019, 20:36
Relationships on the island face “real challenges” if the legacy of the Troubles is not dealt with as people commemorate “very difficult centenaries” (...)

IRA victims not entitled to compensation, insists senior Libyan diplomat
- Irish News
- October 17, 2018, 00:52
Any attempt by the British government to use frozen Libyan assets in England to compensate IRA victims of weapons and explosives smuggled into Norther(...)

Newton Emerson: Unionists’ suspicions do not match reality
- Opinion
- January 19, 2017
Gerry Adams isn’t one to let a good crisis go to waste. So adept is the Sinn Féin president at milking them, he has often been accused of causing the(...)

Irish and British politicians voice opposition to ‘hard Border’
- Politics
- July 4, 2016, 14:32
Parliamentarians drawn from across Britain and Ireland have voiced strong opposition to any reimposition of a ‘hard border’ between the North and Sout(...)

Newly compiled figures reveal the scale of ongoing paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland, with 1,100 bombings and shootings over the last decade, (...)