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Totally unacceptable for taxpayer to fund IRA memorial – Robinson
IT would be “totally unacceptable” for public funds to go to renovate an IRA memorial, First Minister Peter Robinson has said.
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Police body slams ex-officers
FORMER police officers have no right to comment on the PSNI, their former colleagues have said.
SF minister approves IRA statue funds
PUBLIC funds could go to renovate an IRA memorial, Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill has confirmed.
O’Dowd’s visits to own constituency questioned
ONE in four of education minister John O’Dowd’s school visits have been to just one constituency — his own — it has been revealed.
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Kennedy was powerless over A5 road: UUP man
A VETERAN Ulster Unionist councillor has said that last week’s announcement of a multi-million pound upgrade of the A5 road shows his party’s powerlessness in the Executive.
Portrait of Trimble to be unveiled at Stormont
FORMER First Minister David Trimble’s official Stormont portrait will tonight be unveiled at Parliament Buildings.
Scots debate is changing the Union
ONCE it was the man in the middle of this photograph who was most likely to break up the United Kingdom. But no more.
Ill Paisley has spoken to family
IAN Paisley is out of intensive care and has been talking to family members.
Paterson holds talks with Pope at Vatican
SECRETARY of State Owen Paterson has said it was an honour to meet Pope Benedict at the Vatican.
I feared deafness would end my career: Robinson
PETER Robinson feared he might have to quit politics after becoming deaf in one ear, he has revealed.
Progress on TUV bid to ban ‘killer’ advisers
AN attempt by Jim Allister to ban convicted killers from serving as publicly-funded advisers to Stormont ministers has moved another step forward.
No room to manoeuvre in hunger strike – NIO
IT would have been impossible for the Government or the IRA to compromise during the 1981 hunger strike, according to a previously unpublished NIO assessment of the protest.
Ex-UUP candidate leaves to join the Tories
A FORMER Ulster Unionist council candidate has defected to the Conservative Party due to his opposition to Tom Elliott’s leadership.
Terror amnesty ‘a reward for murder’
UNIONISTS have rejected the suggestion by the Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson that an amnesty for some Troubles crimes should be considered.
Union table ‘is hidden away in a warehouse’
THE table on which the Act of Union is believed to have been signed into law more than 200 years ago is languishing in a warehouse, the News Letter can reveal.
Congregation prays for ‘very seriously ill’ Paisley
IAN Paisley’s congregation yesterday stayed after church to pray for the 85-year-old, whose condition in hospital they were told remains “very serious”.
Family’s silent decorum a return to a bygone era
IAN Paisley’s failure to appear at a DUP dinner in Co Antrim on Saturday was the first sign of his latest health problems.
Trimble questions Robinson’s bid to woo Catholic voters
PETER Robinson’s appeals for a shared future in Northern Ireland are aimed at wooing liberal Protestants rather than Catholics, Lord Trimble has claimed.
GRAHAM WALKER: Unionists have role to play in Scots debate
PERHAPS predictably only a portion of Reg Empey’s recent remarks about the prospect of Scottish independence and its impact on Northern Ireland was given prominence.
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UUP probe into ‘McNarry affair’
THE Ulster Unionist Party has announced a probe into the “alleged indiscipline and breaches of party confidentiality” by David McNarry MLA and other party members.
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Pressure on UUP chief to bar McNarry
TOM Elliott was last night under intense pressure from senior colleagues to expel David McNarry from the UUP after a 35-minute broadcast interview in which he repeatedly attacked his party leader.
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Stormont spends £5m on spin, figures show
STORMONT probably employs more spin doctors than the journalists employed by Belfast news organisations, TUV leader Jim Allister has said after unearthing the cost of the Executive’s press officers.
Conservatives now enter last chance saloon
SO it’s back to the future for the Conservatives: back to a title — Conservative and Unionist — that was first used at the time of the original Home Rule Crisis at the end of the 19th century.
Best way forward is link-up with DUP - David McNarry
FOLLOWING several successive election reverses, a debate has been going on for some time behind closed doors within the Ulster Unionist Party on the future direction of the party.
Dilemma a familiar one for me - Jeffrey Donaldson
THE plight now facing David McNarry is one with which I am very familiar.
McGuinness: I’d cheer on NI at Windsor Park
Martin McGuinness has revealed he would cheer on the Northern Ireland football team and hopes to get the chance on a visit to Windsor Park.
Elliott remains defiant over McNarry sanction
ULSTER Unionist leader Tom Elliott has said he has no regrets in disciplining senior colleague David McNarry, claiming the MLA’s decision to resign from the Assembly group in protest was an over-reaction.
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Elliott: ‘I didn’t take decision lightly’
UUP leader Tom Elliott speaks out on the events of the past few days and explains why he took the decision to discipline David McNarry
1 commentMembership of secret talks teams revealed
DAVID McNarry was just one of four senior UUP figures involved in the DUP-UUP talks, it has been reported.
UUP is a coalition of individuals
DAVID McNarry’s dramatic departure from the Ulster Unionist benches at Stormont demonstrates the inability of the UUP to continue as a “broad church” party.
DUP slams ‘gerrymandering’ boundary proposals
THE DUP has accused the Boundary Commission of gerrymandering in a fierce attack on its proposals to reduce the number of Westminster seats to 16.
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McNarry: I feel abused but I’ll defend myself
DAVID McNarry reported directly to Tom Elliott about what went on in secret UUP-DUP talks, the “betrayed” former UUP assemblyman has said.
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Robinson set trap for naive – McCrea
PETER Robinson has set a trap for the politically naive by suggesting that the DUP and UUP come together, Ulster Unionist Assemblyman Basil McCrea told a Sinn Fein conference on Saturday.
4 commentsVeteran Assemblyman ‘will hardly be missed’
DAVID McNarry will hardly be missed at the Ulster Unionist Assembly group as he only attended about half of its meetings, an MLA said last night.
Members welcome to join: DUP
IT is up to David McNarry whether he joins the DUP, Nigel Dodds has said.
Fishermen: minister’s ideology is hurting us
SINN Fein’s agriculture minister has been accused of putting her republicanism ahead of the interests of local fishermen after “capitulating” to an EU demand.
Anger over ‘hidden away’ royal pictures
STORMONT’S only portrait of the Queen is among a series of royal images no longer on display at Parliament Buildings, it has emerged.
McNarry quits UUP Assembly team
Ulster Unionist MLA David McNarry has announced this evening that he has resigned from the UUP Assembly group.
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Facing legal fury, Hain hits back
UNDER mounting criticism for attacking one of Northern Ireland’s top judges, Peter Hain last night dismissed suggestions that his comments were an attempt to sell his £20 book, telling critics to “grow up”.
Solicitor ‘alarmed’ over attack on judge
THE solicitor who represented Bertha McDougall in the case that led to Peter Hain’s comments on Mr Justice Girvan has said that he is alarmed by Mr Hain’s attack.
OPINION: Unionist unity is illogical, impractical and wrong
THE spectre of so-called unionist unity that has reappeared is truly a false idol, but it is also demeaning to the ethos of the UUP.
McNarry ‘has minutes of inter-party talks’
DAVID McNarry has minutes of the top level DUP-UUP meetings which prove that the talks were to discuss closer ties between the parties, a source close to the talks last night told the News Letter.
Opinion: Parties must move beyond peace process divide
UNIONIST unity is a term guaranteed to produce Pavlovian and negative responses.
UUP meeting after claim of secret DUP talks
SPECULATION is mounting around what was discussed during high level meetings between the DUP and the Ulster Unionists – talks which were kept secret from most UUP MLAs who yesterday called an emergency meeting to discuss the issue.
If parties do unite, they need to do it soon
FROM listening to Tom Elliott’s speech at his party conference just three months ago, you would have struggled to find clues that he was exploring a closer relationship with the DUP.
Parties ‘working together on Westminster matters’
DUP and Ulster Unionist members are also working together at Westminster, Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson said last night.
Tories planning Ulster re-launch
THE Conservative Party is planning to re-launch itself as an independent entity in Northern Ireland by the beginning of April.
McConville death secrets in Boston archive
SEVERAL former terrorists did speak about Jean McConville’s murder on secret tapes held in Boston College, an American judge has dramatically confirmed.
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