Margaret Ritchie
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Johnson suffers heavy defeat in House of Lords over Internal Market Bill
- UK
- November 9, 2020, 22:40
Boris Johnson suffered an overwhelming defeat in the House of Lords late on Monday over the Internal Market Bill, which would allow ministers to brea(...)

Newton Emerson: A unionist-free Seanad? Nobody minds really
- Opinion
- July 2, 2020, 00:00
Former senator Ian Marshall says “the entire unionist community feels let down and left behind” by the new government’s failure to nominate a unionist(...)

Seamus Mallon: Funeral mass remembers peacemaker
- Politics
- January 27, 2020, 13:46
Seamus Mallon was a “peacemaker, a bridge builder, a leader, a statesman, and a faithful worker for the Kingdom of God”, the Archbishop of Armagh and (...)

Ex-SDLP MP unapologetic about House of Lords elevation
- Irish News
- September 12, 2019, 17:50
Former SDLP leader and now newly elevated member of the House of Lords Margaret Ritchie is sitting on the reputed grave of St Patrick in Downpatrick m(...)

Bercow times resignation to limit government influence on successor
- UK
- September 10, 2019
John Bercow has announced he will stand down as speaker of the House of Commons on October 31st, the day Britain is due to leave the European Union. I(...)

SDLP falling into irrelevance in absence of Assembly
- Politics
- April 9, 2018, 01:00
Since the SDLP played a pivotal role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland they have suffered at the polls. The then leader John Hume knew by opening(...)

Down and out SDLP mowed down by ‘tribal juggernaut’
- Politics
- June 27, 2017, 01:00
In the days before the Westminster election, an SDLP veteran had a row with two of his daughters, both in their early 20s, after they told him they we(...)

Mark Durkan: ‘I regret that only Derry voice in Commons is Gregory Campbell’
- Irish News
- June 13, 2017, 20:01
John Hume’s name has been rarely off the tongues of members of the SDLP in Derry over recent months, as they battled, unsuccessfully as it turned out,(...)

SDLP disappointment and fear of return to polarisation
- Irish News
- June 12, 2017, 01:00
There was no disguising the sadness in Seamus Mallon’s voice. “I am very, very disappointed and very sorry for good MPs who have lost their jobs,” he (...)

London and Dublin eye election result for NI political progress
- Politics
- June 8, 2017, 13:41
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(...)