Politics

Donald Trump has congratulated Boris Johnson on his landslide victory in the Tory leadership race, saying he will make a “great” PM.

Boris Johnson has as expected beaten Jeremy Hunt to become the leader of the Conservative Party.

There is something seriously wrong when a suggested remedy on Northern Ireland’s troubled past causes those in greatest need of help to be re-traumatised and hurt.

Castlederg suffered grievously at the hands of Irish republican terrorists for three decades.

If, as is expected, Boris Johnson becomes the new Prime Minister today, he will find himself engaged in a political fire-fight almost before he has even got his feet under the desk at 10 Downing Street.

Tory leadership hopefuls Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have both said it’s “all to play for” as Britain waits to learn who will become the next prime minister.

Almost two weeks after Westminster’s momentous vote to decriminalise abortion in Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein has come out in support of the move.

Doug Beattie, Jim Allister and the Orange Order have all backed a number of victims’ groups in calling for the NI victims’ commissioner to resign over her stance on a Troubles pension.

Ulster GAA now has an extended chance to halt a cup final in the name of two IRA men after the event was postponed, it has been claimed.

A government minister has told DUP MPs that a new pension for injured Troubles victims will not be available to terrorists.

The funding crisis facing Northern Ireland schools can’t be solved without “political direction” for long-term changes, former education minister Peter Weir has said.

Nationalist confidence in policing the Lurgan, Craigavon and Portadown area is waning, according to Sinn Fein.#

Congratulations to Shane Lowry!

The Northern Ireland Secretary should act over the region’s “crisis hit” education system in the absence of devolved government, a Westminster committee has recommended.

MPs have urged the next prime minister to legislate to end the “ridiculous charade” of “vexatious” and repeated investigations into alleged historical offences by British troops.

Loyalist flute band music played in Portrush town as the third round of the Open Championship reached its conclusion a mile away on Saturday evening.

Simon Coveney has warned that a no-deal Brexit will “devastate” the Northern Irish economy.

Depending on one’s point of view, MPs’ use of a bland Northern Ireland bill to suddenly legalise abortion could be viewed either as a piece of legislative ingenuity or a dastardly abuse of process.

The issue of a victims pension should be made simple.