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.
Tory big beast Ken Clarke has denounced the DUP as a “sectarian Protestant party in Ireland” and lamented the time which the prime minister is spending courting Arlene Foster and her colleagues.
Unionists have questioned the motives of those organising a major Brexit conference in Belfast after they decided to only invite nationalist and republican politicians to speak at the event.
Jeremy Corbyn has misrepresented the DUP’s Brexit stance, claiming that the party wants no deal taken off the table when in fact the DUP wants the opposite.
Unionists have slammed Sinn Fein MEP Martina Anderson after she quoted Irish republican James Connolly in the European Parliament, stating “the British government has no right in Ireland”.
A DUP MP has labelled Chancellor Philip Hammond as “totally bonkers” after he reportedly told business leaders that a no-deal Brexit could be “taken off the table” and Article 50 “rescinded”.
British Army reservists will be deployed throughout the United Kingdom as the British government prepares to leave the European Union with 'no deal' at the end of March.
A UUP lord has said that, contrary to fears about the safety of the Union, Brexit has meant that Northern Ireland’s link with Great Britain “rarely been more secure”.
It is “remarkable” that Jeremy Corbyn would speak to terrorist groups such as the IRA, Hamas and Hezbollah without preconditions, but set a red line on the dialogue with the UK’s Prime Minister, TUV leader Jim Allister has said.
Sinn Fein’s seven MPs were the only voluntary abstentions in Tuesday’s key vote on the Withdrawal Agreement, and were among the only voluntary abstentions the following day, in the confidence motion.
The Irish government, instead of working closely with the UK, contributed to the negotiation of the backstop which ultimately brought down the Withdrawal Agreement and left us facing the prospect of a departure from the EU in a matter of weeks, with no deal.
The scale of the government’s defeat in the House of Commons vote on the Withdrawal Agreement astounded even those of us who were involved in the organising of the opposition to this pernicious deal.
