Politics

Chapels in Omagh and Armagh have been daubed with graffiti attacking Sinn Fein’s abortion policy ahead of the pending southern referendum on the matter.

Sinn Fein has come under attack from the leader of the SDLP over its abstentionist policy, questioning why the party is running at all in the upcoming West Tyrone by-election.

DUP MP Sammy Wilson has defended Brexit Secretary David Davis’s decision to make an unannounced visit to the Irish border.

Britain must allow Brussels powers to approve its financial regulations following Brexit to preserve access to European markets, a senior EU official has said.

Brexit has already caused “substantial damage” to the UK’s system of devolution, with Westminster accused of having “largely ignored” both Scotland and Northern Ireland, according to a report.

A series of “leaks and rumours” around Theresa May’s commitment to a full Brexit have been dismissed by Nigel Dodds as an attempt to exert pressure on the government during negotiations.

The ongoing row over a Newry playground named after IRA man Raymond McCreesh has made national headlines – and still goes on.

Brexit Secretary David Davis has paid a surprise flying visit to the Irish border in south Armagh as negotiations around customs and trade arrangements post-Brexit intensify.

The GAA has moved to distance itself from the launch of a pro-life campaign led by the Tyrone Gaelic football manager Mickey Harte.

The UK government needs to reconsider its approach to the border issue in Brexit negotiations after speculation the EU Commission has comprehensively rejected its proposals.

It was Edward Carson who kick-started the present debate almost a century ago: “From the outset let us see that the Catholic minority have nothing to fear from a Protestant majority. Let us take care to win all that is best among those who have been opposed to us in the past. While maintaining intact our own religion, let us give the same rights to the religion of our neighbours.”

In a recent interview in The Guardian David Lammy MP described the late Winnie Mandela as his hero and added, “No one is perfect, and I have not had to put up with the humiliations, the tortures, the nightmare of your husband being in prison for 27 years.” (Comment, April 7).

Nearly half of people who took a survey on the News Letter’s website think we would be better off economically in Europe, and a majority want to stick with the Single Market.

Theresa May could bow to Parliamentary pressure to keep Britain in a customs union with the European Union after Brexit.

The vacuum in Stormont powersharing is causing real damage, Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin warned.

It was an explosive address conjuring up images of war. It gained him a reputation for racism, and largely cost him his career. But years later he told Danny Kennedy he regretted nothing. Here he recalls one of the most debated and denounced speeches in UK history, 50 years on.

Members of the Policing Board are still in receipt of full pay despite the body being unable to function properly for more than a year.

It is a reflection of defeatism in the face of an unapologetic, triumphalist and growing pro IRA narrative that it was not possible to coalesce behind a victims’ candidate in West Tyrone.

If, as the seasoned Daily Telegraph journalist Peter Foster reports (see story link below), the EU has rejected UK proposals for a frictionless border in the event of regulatory and customs divergence, it means one of four things.