The DUP and Theresa May have appeared to move closer, with the prime minister offering hope to Nigel Dodds that she will now seek legally binding changes to the Irish backstop and the DUP scaling back its criticism of her.
The president of the Irish republic has invoked the memory of Padraig Pearse as he gave an address marking 100 years since the first-ever meeting of Ireland’s independent parliament in Dublin.
The president of Sinn Fein Mary Lou McDonald has suggested that only in recent times have republicans had the ability to pursue Irish unity and sovereignty by non-violent means.
Theresa May has dismissed a report that she is “considering amending the Good Friday Agreement as part of a fresh attempt to unblock the Brexit logjam”.
The implications of the Brexit withdrawal agreement and the proposed backstop arrangement for Northern Ireland will be discussed at Westminster on Wednesday (January 23).
Downing Street has dismissed reports that Theresa May is considering rewriting the Good Friday Agreement or seeking a separate deal with Dublin in order to break the Brexit deadlock over the so-called "backstop".
A Westminster-based journalist phoned me last Wednesday: “What is it about the backstop that rattles unionists, Alex. Surely it gives them the best of both worlds?”
Theresa May is to set out her next steps to build a Commons majority for a Brexit deal amid signs she is still unwilling to give ground on her central demands.
With the Beyond Brexit debate due to take place in the Waterfront next week, I believe that the organisers have made a huge mistake by not inviting unionist politicians.
The SDLP group leader on Belfast City Council has said that he respects the decision of the council to proceed on a stand-alone basis with a memorial to the Belfast Blitz, which killed roughly 1,000 people.
To get a glimpse of the agonising political dilemma facing the DUP, consider something that took place yesterday on Twitter, the phone and online forum in which people express short snippets of their opinions.
DUP leader Arlene Foster has attempted to rubbish claims that her party would be open to a soft Brexit that kept the whole of the UK in a customs union with the EU.
