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Editorial: Fix needed for parties' inability to set a Stormont budget

People enjoy the warm weather at Helen’s Bay beach in the summer

Littering causing ‘low level misery’ at Co Down beauty spots

Alliance MLAs walk out of the chamber during a confidence debate in their farming minister Andrew Muir.

Letter: Leadership that farmers deserve was missing

Repeated concerns have been raised about the impact of hunting with dogs legislation on shooting in Northern Ireland.

Almost all involved in shooting would be affected by hunting law, MLAs told

Alliance's Eóin Tennyson and Andrew Muir laugh off a DUP MLA saying she took no pleasure in bringing a no confidence motion in the minister.

David Thompson: Alliance panto stunt didn't help Andrew Muir or Stormont

Alliance MLAs walk out of the chamber during a confidence debate in their farming minister Andrew Muir.

Stormont's opposition leader brands Alliance Assembly walkout a 'stunt'

Jon Burrows addressing the Ulster Unionist Party conference in Belfast on Saturday.

Jon Burrows says unionism is at a crossroads - and the UUP is ready to lead

Jon Burrows pictured at Stormont ahead of the Ulster Unionist Party conference on Saturday. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Burrows: Unionist co-operation can't be 'DUP takes and every other party gives'

Alliance Party deputy leader Eoin Tennyson. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Eóin Tennyson says Drumcree is an issue of competing rights

Cricklewood Crescent, Stranmillis, Belfast

BBC journalist backs 'vulnerable' elderly resident in planning dispute

Alliance MLA Eoin Tennyson took questions from across the Assembly on his bill to outlaw 'conversion practices'.

'Parents would need a KC at the kitchen table' under conversion law - UUP

Alliance MLA Eoin Tennyson.

MP warning over removal of right to jury trial, ahead of key Stormont vote

Flags near the Shore Road in north Belfast.

Council boycotts flags and emblems bill consultation

MLAs in the assembly will consider the Alliance Party’s Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill on Tuesday

Gavin Robinson: Conversion bill is a siren call to parents

Bowler hats belonging to Orangemen of Portadown district, who last marched down the Garvaghy Road in 1997

'Garvaghy Road residents have nothing to be frightened of from parade'

Morning View

Editorial: Tough calls lie ahead for Stormont's new health minister
News Letter editorial for Friday, August 21, 2026:
Editorial

Stormont Education Minister Paul Givan speaks to the media after meeting with students collecting their GCSE results at Dromore High School in Dromore, Co Down

Nationalists salivating over unionist difficulties, says Paul Givan

First Minister Michelle O'Neill (right) and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026. Pic: Oliver McVeigh/PA Wire

David Thompson: Could it be SF's attitude that's undermining Stormont?

Daera minister Andrew Muir MLA giving evidence on a controversial cattle cull on Monday morning.

Muir outlines 'grotesque' conditions on cattle cull controversy farm

DUP Alderman Stephen McIlveen

Council approves €50 Wicklow trip despite ‘junket’ claims from DUP

Stormont really does work badly, so it is tricky for unionists to argue against changing it

Owen Polley: It's up to unionists to stop woke madness in NI

The website Stormont Watch breaks down all the votes since the 2022 election, and shows that the Alliance Party votes with Sinn Fein about three-quarters of the time (photo by PAUL FAITH/AFP via Getty Images)

Data shows Alliance vote with Sinn Fein more often then the SDLP do

Participants in the Orange Order parade in Royal Hillsborough, Co Down, taking part in Twelfth of July celebrations across Northern Ireland. Picture date: Monday July 13, 2026.

Twelfth 2026: 'True Britishness is about civil and religious liberty for all'

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was convicted at Newry Crown Court (Liam McBurney/PA)

Parties raise further questions over latest Donaldson allegations

Alliance deputy leader Eoin Tennyson says that parents who support children asking for help to stop homosexual thoughts would have to be assessed by authorities to see if they should face prosecution.

Parents could face jail under Alliance Party's 'conversion therapy' law

UUP MLA Robbie Butler. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

UUP MLAs who signed petition of concern back bid to raise child crime age

UUP leader Jon Burrows has hit out at the NI Human Rights Commission over its backing for raising the age of criminal responsibility. Pic: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Base decisions on hard realities not 'soft law' - UUP's Burrows
Jon Burrows says laws on the the age at which children can be prosecuted must be “based on hard reality” after the NI Human Rights Commission backed raising the threshold to at least 12, citing “soft law” from UN and European rights organisations.
David Thompson

Independent unionist MLA Doug Beattie.

Beattie defends child crime proposal after expert brands it 'arbitrary cut off'

Alliance MP Sorcha Eastwood says politicians like colleague David Honeyford may not fully realised the situation around claiming twice for fuel.

MP not sure Alliance energy spokesman 'fully realised' he'd had fuel paid twice

MLAs have been able to use free electricity chargers since 2015. Pic: John Walton/PA Wire

Stormont free fuel: Unionist leaders tell their MLAs to pay it back

Alliance MLA David Honeyford has said public EV charging is more expensive and not as convenient.

Stormont car freebie: MLA highlighted 'expensive' public charging points

Morning View

Editorial: Burrows critics seem to be hiding behind anonymity

Northern Ireland Health Minister Mike Nesbitt stated two "fail-safes" in the Encompass system of record-keeping in Northern Ireland had not worked. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Health Minister apologises as 12,000 patient letters go missing

Shoppers go about their business in Belfast City Centre. Belfast City Council and a trade union have clashed on the proportion of retail workers who keen to start working on Sundays - after the council voted to trial the measure this summer.

Council and union clash on whether retail workers want Sunday opening

Eric Hanvey at a rally for ethnic minorities in Belfast last year

Ex-Alliance councillor says Sinn Fein 'not being generous winners'

UUP leader Jon Burrows has warned that sex offences in schools could be decriminalised by proposed law changes.

Burrows slams 'unfathomably dangerous' position of NI Children's Commissioner

Legal opinion obtained by the Countryside Alliance warns using a dog when shooting rabbits for recreation or food could be outlawed. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Alliance bill 'would ban shooting with dogs and make dog ownership dangerous'

A gundog pictured on the shores of Lough Neagh. Their use would be restricted under plans to ban hunting with dogs, the Countryside Alliance says. Pic: Gary McCartney, Countryside Alliance.

SF urged to 'think carefully' over hunting ban's implications for rural life

Morning View

Editorial: Riots show police need option to arrest teenagers

UUP leader Jon Burrows has warned about the ability of police to do their job under proposed law changes proposed by Alliance.

PSNI hands could be tied on rioting teens – UUP leader warns

Forensic investigators at the scene in Dunmurry after a car explosion outside a police station

'Only through the grace of God' prevented casualties in Dunmurry blast

Ards and North Down DUP Councillor Colin Kennedy has been suspended over comments relating to Hamas.

DUP free speech concerns as councillor suspended over LGBTQIA comments

Alliance Party of NI’s Kellie Armstrong giving her acceptance speech at the Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast for the Northern Ireland Assembly Election count in 2022.

Alliance MLA Kellie Armstrong announces she will not seek re-election

Letters to editor

Letter: Dreaming of better - and more innocent - times

Marianne Buchanan-Stewart from the Women's Rights Network.

TUV back women on 'one of the most important issues' facing them

Robin Glendinning, one of the founders of the Alliance Party, has died aged 87. Photo: Will Glendinning/Facebook

Tributes as Robin Glendinning, one Alliance Party's founders, dies aged 87

Jay Basra

Jay Basra: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill - Consultation

Letters to editor

Letter: With help from others, unionism can win border poll

Alliance is seeking to ban fox hunting in NI. John Blair MLA says he will bring proposals to outlaw hunting with dogs through a private members bill - if and when the Assembly returns.

Letter: Sad to put lives of foxes before unborn babies

Pat McCudden.

Tributes paid to former Alliance councillor

Kieran McCarthy

Kieran McCarthy: Ex-Alliance MLA’s plans for political comeback at 76 are scuppe...

Kieran McCarthy

Alliance veteran to stand against his former party in council elections

Letters to Editor

Liberal unionists are now needed

Fianna FÃ¡Ãl Mayor of Clare Flan Garvey and his memoir: "Inside Minds North and South - Two Wrongs Dont make a Right"

Veteran unionist to help book launch of republican friend

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