Wednesday 25 May, 2022
The first minister designate of Northern Ireland said that people should be “bit relaxed about those things”.
The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill has been widely criticised.
Jeffrey Donaldson said that calling on the Northern Ireland Protocol to be implemented in full was ‘such folly’.
Meetings between senior US figures and Labour leader Keir Starmer are also set to take place.
In a strongly-worded intervention, Pelosi urged the UK and the EU to continue negotiations to uphold peace in Northern Ireland.
Abortion services have yet to centrally commissioned in Northern Ireland due to a political impasse.
The proposals are almost universally opposed by political parties across the UK and Ireland as well as victims’ groups.
Emma DeSouza ran in the recent Stormont elections – she didn’t win but she shares her thoughts on it all.
Liz Truss is expected to declare her intention to bring forward legislation which rips up parts of the UK’s post-Brexit trade deal.
It comes the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Northern Ireland in a bid to restore power-sharing.
Boris Johnson will meet the main Stormont parties tomorrow in a bid to break the deadlock on returning to power-sharing arrangements.
The Foreign Affairs Minister said Ireland is “frustrated” and “dealing with the consequences now of a decision by the British people on our own country”.
Listen in to be brought up to speed about the weekend’s seismic election result.
Emma Little-Pengelly has been elected in the Lagan Valley constituency in Donaldson’s place.
The foreign affairs minister said the working relationship Ireland and the UK have enjoyed in the past is currently “absent”.
Under UK Government proposals, immunity for Troubles-related crime will depend on co-operation with an information retrieval body.
Donaldson, who is an MP and can’t sit in both houses, says he’s staying in the House of Commons for now at least.
The protocol effectively creates checks on goods flowing from Britain to Northern Ireland to allow an open border.
Party leaders are meeting today with Secretary of State Brandon Lewis across the day.
Nicola Sturgeon said there was a ‘growing sense’ the UK is not currently serving the needs of people in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
It’s been an eventful weekend for Northern Ireland.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said it would be unacceptable for the DUP to refuse to form a new Stormont executive with a nationalist First Minister, following a historic election in Northern Ireland.
British Secretary of State Brandon Lewis is set to meet with the leaders of the Stormont parties tomorrow.
The former BBC correspondent says the story of “two tribes” in the North is now being stretched out across a wider canvas.
Sinn Féin remains firmly on course to emerge as the largest Stormont party.
The Sinn Féin vice-president and the leaders of the DUP and Alliance Party were all elected on the first count in their constituencies.
Sinn Féin Vice President Michelle O’Neill said it would be “absolutely unfathomable” that a new Executive would not be formed after today.
A new first minister, a surge in cross-community voting and where evangelical votes will go are among the things to keep an eye on.
The SDLP leader said voters wanted to “send a message to the DUP”.
Peter Flanagan says the election in Northern Ireland has shown that Loyalist and British values are no longer the same.
The process is taking place to elect 90 MLAs to the devolved Stormont Assembly, with 239 candidates running.
The process will elect 90 MLAs to the devolved Stormont Assembly, with 239 candidates running.
Secretary of State Brandon Lewis said the Government is focusing on resolving issues with an agreement with the EU.
The former BBC correspondent says every party is playing it safe and steady ahead of tomorrow’s vote.
Sinn Féin’s chairman Declan Kearney wrote to Saoradh, which is accused of links with the New IRA, about a “co-operation agreement”.
Here are some of the main issues and themes that have dominated the election campaign.
