Arlene Foster

Lord Empey said the DUP was in a cul-de-sac of its own making. Photo: Arthur Allison: Pacemaker Press

Lord Empey: Peter Robinson 'launched like a political distress flair'

The former first minister Peter Robinson has intervened on what he believes the DUP needs to secure from any future deal with the government.

Peter Robinson: Deal needs to be done by New Year

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 6th May 2022 -

Gerry Carroll - People Before Profit at the Northern Ireland Assembly Election Count at Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Gerry Carroll says People Before Profit stands in solidarity with Palestine

The prime minister Rishi Sunak, centre, and the Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, on Tuesday meet Northern Ireland Tories at the Heathrow Lounge in the Manchester Convention Centre for a reception by the NI Conservatives at the annual Tory conference. Pic by Ben Lowry

Ben Lowry: NI was barely on radar at the Tory party conference in Manchester

NI's ex first minister Arlene Foster speaks as Margaret Thatcher at a balloon debate at Policy Exchange room at the Conservative Party conference at Manchester on Tuesday October 3 2023. She won the debate against panellists including Lord Frost, left, as Ronald Reagan and Michael Gove, right, as Teddy Roosevelt

Foster wins good humoured balloon debate at Tory conference

Former DUP leader Arlene Foster says the Queen never put a foot wrong in her eyes

The Queen was inspirational to female leaders around the world: Arlene Foster

Letters to editor

Letter: Police chief wanted to appease the enemies of the state

Arlene Foster said the wildfires had been 'pretty close' to her village in Rhodes.
Picture By: Arthur Allison, Pacemaker.

Arlene's narrow miss in Rhodes wildfires

Stuart Johnston was among tourists in Rhodes evacuated to schools and football stadiums

Greece wildfires: Lisburn man on being moved from hotel to a school

Dame Arlene Foster, former first minister of Northern Ireland, arrives to give evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry at Dorland House in London

Covid Inquiry: Not enough consideration given to impact of lockdown says Foster

Professor Sir Michael McBride, Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland since 2006, giving evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry at Dorland House in London, during its first investigation (Module 1) examining if the pandemic was properly planned for and "whether the UK was adequately ready for that eventuality"

NI Chief Medical Officer says Brexit preparations diverted pandemic planning

Arlene Foster with members of The Coote Memorial lodge with their new banner in Donegal

Arlene Foster explains how GB News will step up its Twelfth of July coverage

'King Billy' during a 2002 enactment of the 1690 landing at Carrickfergus

William of Orange's landing in NI 'not fully appreciated outside of Carrick'

Lord Alderdice told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee today that he believed direct rule from Westminster would not happen and so a form of joint authority between the British and Irish governments could emerge from a lack of devolution

Lack of devolution could put NI on path to joint British/Irish rule, MPs told

NI Affairs chairman Simon Hoare

Dublin's claim over NI was wrong and illegal Arlene Foster explains to Tory MP

Former Northern Ireland first minister Baroness Arlene Foster appearing before the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee in the House of Commons, London, on the subject of the effectiveness of the institutions of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement

Attending ‘glorifying events’ normalises terrorist violence, says Arlene Foster
Former Northern Ireland first minister Baroness Arlene Foster has said the attendance of senior members of Sinn Fein at “glorifying events” results in the normalisation of violence.

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP.

'People are proud of Northern Ireland' leader tells DUP members

Letters to editor

Letter: Unionism needs to be pluralist, not turn voters away from it

Guest Speaker Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP pictured speaking at the 2018 DUP annual conference in Belfast. The DUP believed him when he said he would never support a border in the Irish Sea. The DUP's support for the hardest Brexit wasn’t reciprocated by Brexiteer Tories. Picture by Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Letter: The chickens have come home to roost for the DUP

The motorcade of US President Joe Biden, led by The Beast, is driven away from Ulster University in Belfast

White House remains silent on absence of Union flag from Cadillac One

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (right) meets with US President Joe Biden at the Grand Central Hotel in Belfast

Biden urged not to push for increased Dublin role in NI affairs

US President Joe Biden (L) speaks with Ireland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin (R) during a visit of Carlingford Castle, in Carlingford, on April 12, 2023, as part of a four day trip to Northern Ireland and Ireland for the 25th anniversary commemorations of the "Good Friday Agreement". (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden remarks were an exhortation for all to work together – Martin

Letters to editor

Letter: Credit to Donaldson who did not agree with Foster about President Biden

'Joe Biden hates the UK, I don't think there's any doubt about that.'

Former first minister says that the US president Joe Biden 'hates' the UK

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern speaking during the ceremony to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in the Great Hall at Stormont. Photo credit: William Cherry/Presseye/PA Wire

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern reveals his two regrets of Good Friday Agreement

Almost unbelievably, Sunak is the third Tory PM to agree a special status for NI with the EU

Owen Polley: It’s farcical to ask unionists to welcome being edged out of UK

Former DUP leader Arlene Foster

Former DUP leader Arlene Foster reveals agony son's go heart surgery
Former DUP leader Arlene Foster has given her support to a Bill that would give additional paid leave to parents of newborns in neonatal care adding that she hopes it will be replicated here once the executive and assembly is operating again.

John Simpson, who sadly passed away at the age of 90.

Tributes paid to John Simpson after economist passes away

The UK leadership of the Girl Guides has become "so caught up in political correctness and wokery" that it has lost all sense of the real world, a former Stormont Education Minister has said.

Girl Guides ‘wokery’ after trans-inclusive language guide

Jeffrey Donaldson walks walks out of the Good Friday negotiations in 1998 after failing to agree with the party's stance on early release for political prisoners. He later joined the DUP which he now leads, and which has to make a hard decision on whether or not to support Rishi Sunak's NI Protocol deal

McNarry: Trio who made politics hell for Trimble face their own hard choice

Morning View

Editorial: DUP should lead unionist opinion on deal, not just consult on it

Letters to editor

Letter: Exclusion of the likes of Paisley and Wilson from panel speaks volumes

Boris Johnson in 2022

Watch: When Arlene Foster backed first draft of Boris Johnson's 2019 Brexit plan

The eight members of the DUP's Protocol panel: left to right from top, then clockwise - Carla Lockhart, Brian Kingston, John McBurney, Arlene Foster, Peter Robinson, Peter Weir, Deborah Erskine, Ross Reid

Who is who on the DUP panel assessing the Windsor Framework?

An image of a gold nugget from Conroy Gold PLC

Seam of gold found in rocks beneath Co Armagh in latest drill find

Girl Guiding is to remove refernences to God in campfire songs.

Arlene Foster's 'sadness' as Girl Guiding drops 'God' from songs

A lollipop sign

DUP attempts to up pressure over freeze on 'lollipop men and women'

Sir Jeffrey has made clear that the DUP will take its time to consider the Windsor Framework before deciding whether to back it and lift its current blockade of devolution at Stormont.

DUP leader sets up panel to inform deliberations on Windsor Framework deal

New DUP panel will 'gauge opinion' on Windsor Framework

Alliance Party leader Naomi Long speaking during her party's annual conference at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast

Female politicians taking a stand against Twitter abuse

GB News is to expand the role of former DUP leader and First Minister, Baroness Arlene Foster.

GB News to expand role of ex-First Minister Arlene Foster

King Charles III meeting European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen yesterday during an audience at Windsor Castle, Berkshire

King and von der Leyen meeting ‘not unusual’, says Cleverly

King Charles III receives European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen during an audience at Windsor Castle, Berkshire

King criticised for ‘constitutionally unwise’ tea with EU boss after Brexit deal

Arlene Foster

Protocol: Arlene Foster says it was a mistake to keep DUP out of talks

Arlene Foster on GB News

Foster quotes Pete Tong and Einstein as she chides PMs over Protocol

Foster and Sturgeon at a British-Irish summit gathering

Foster wishes Sturgeon well despite prejecting her dream of 'destroying the UK'

Former DUP leader and Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster, now Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee

DUP ‘made great mistake in dispensing with’ Arlene Foster, says Tory peer

IRA active service unit on the South Armagh border

Northern Ireland terrorist victims face ‘difficult year’

PA REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2022

File photo dated 10/09/22 - Members of the public gather to pay their respects on Belfast's Shankill Road following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. Issue date: Tuesday December 20, 2022. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Foster to pay tribute to Queen in Christmas special, A Royal Year

Royal Mail workers at Tomb Street in Belfast on strikes in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions

Sandra Chapman: We don’t need strikes coming up to Christmas

Arlene Foster in the House of Lords

Putting Protocol Bill 'on ice' confirms my worst fears about Rishi Sunak: Foster

The ruthless and doctrinaire Mary Lou McDonald faces deeply embarrassing questions about dodgy associates of Sinn Fein

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Republican secrets are the gift that keep on giving

John Larkin KC

Protocol ‘shifts position of Northern Ireland in the UK’ Supreme Court is told

Dame Arlene Foster and Sinead Murtagh

'Up the Ra' video woman should apologise: IVU

Rev Clements has asked Sinn Fein members including Michelle O'Neill to apologise for the fact the IRA murdered his dad because he was a policeman. Ms O’Neill’s voters agree that there was no alternative to the IRA

Sinn Fein leader is yet to say if she thinks my father’s murder was wrong