Politics

Northern Ireland-born Kate Hoey was one of five Labour MPs who voted in support of the Conservative government’s bill that would have fast-tracked the UK out of the European Union.

Stormont MLAs have been paid £15 million since the Assembly collapsed more than two years ago, a Westminster committee has heard.

The admission by the government that ‘exit declarations’ will have to be made on goods traded with Great Britain should bring home to everyone the economic and constitutional damage which the proposed Withdrawal Agreement will do to Northern Ireland’s position as a part of the United Kingdom.

Severely injured victims of the Northern Ireland Troubles will receive almost £10,000 a year under Government pension proposals.

The DUP says that Boris Johnson now realises he needs the party in order to get his Brexit deal through parliament, after the unionists voted with the opposition to block its progress.

Leading loyalist Jim Wilson says that the relationship built between loyalist paramilitaries and the Irish government over decades has gone “down the tubes” due to the fact that current Dublin leaders have totally ignored their concerns over Brexit.

The DUP last night helped throw Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan off schedule when it voted against the government’s timetable to get its deal enacted.

Export declarations required for goods bound for Great Britain will place a “burden” on Northern Ireland businesses, several industry bodies have warned.

A border poll on Irish unity is likely to happen sooner than anticipated, due to Brexit upheaval, Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O'Neill has suggested.

The disgraceful full frontal denouncement of Nigel Dodds in Parliament by the prime minister was a shocking delivery of Tory treachery.

People with varying opinions on the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland have expressed their thoughts and opinions on social media.

Boris Johnson is to seek to fast-track legislation to ratify his Brexit deal through the Commons in just three days as he attempts to avoid another delay to Britain’s departure from the EU.

Boris Johnson has been warned that loyalists in Northern Ireland will “not tolerate an economic united Ireland”.

Abortion has been decriminalised in Northern Ireland after a landmark law change came into force at midnight.

The press gallery in Stormont is situated directly above the Speaker’s chair and yesterday that was the best seat in the house to observe someone who gave the impression of being hapless.

Northern Ireland’s abortion laws will tonight move from being the most restrictive in the UK and Ireland to the most liberal after a farcical sitting of the Stormont Assembly was unable to prevent the change.