Arlene Foster

Intertrade UK panel Dr Esmond Birnie, Suzanne Wylie, Baroness Arlene Foster, Angela McGowan, Kirsty McManus, Roger Pollen.

Trade body to meet GB businesses over Irish Sea border challenges

DUP leader Gavin Robinson has said he will never disrespect those who want to use the Irish language.

I will never be disrespectful to those who want to use Irish, says Robinson

A House of Lords committee sat in Stormont in Thursday hearing concerns about Protocol human rights provisions.

Former Stormont leaders return quiz successors on Protocol issues

Baroness Foster has hit back at Gordon Brown in The Spectator (photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Arlene Foster denounces ex-Prime Minister's forecast that NI will quit the UK

Former Mid and East Antrim Council chief executive Anne Donaghy (right) leaves Ballymena Magistrates' Court on Wednesday after being convicted of two counts of deleting an email under the Freedom of Information Act. She was cleared of a third charge of attempting to delete a second email.

Call for former council chief to be stripped of OBE honour following conviction

Former Mid and East Antrim Council chief executive Anne Donaghy (right) leaves Ballymena Magistrates' Court on Wednesday after being convicted of two counts of deleting an email under the Freedom of Information Act. She was cleared of a third charge of attempting to delete a second email. P

Former council chief convicted of deleting email subject to FOI Act

Anne Donaghy, former chief executive of Mid and East Antrim Council, at Ballymena Courthouse, Co Antrim, where she is to contest charges of deleting emails under the Freedom of Information Act.

Council staff met at chief’s house on a Sunday over deletion of email – court

Anne Donaghy, former chief executive of Mid and East Antrim Council, at Ballymena Courthouse, Co Antrim, where she is to contest charges of deleting emails under the Freedom of Information Act.

‘Privacy for former first minister Arlene Foster’ behind deleting email

Anne Donaghy, 56, of Clonmore Road, Dungannon, has been charged with deleting an email and having attempted to delete an email to prevent the disclosure of information via the Freedom of Information Act, as well as procuring the deletion of an email

Former council chief appears in court charged with deleting emails

The GB News Twelfth coverage trio of Dougie Beattie, Charlie Lawson and Baroness Foster.

Twelfth celebrations once again shown across the UK as GB News trio reunite

Dame Arlene Foster and former Coronation Street actor Charlie Lawson are to front live coverage of the Twelfth on GB News. Image: GB News

Arlene Foster and ex-Corrie star to front Twelfth live broadcasts by GB News

Back in the 1990s, David Trimble was mentoring his new MP, Jeffrey Donaldson, following his election to Parliament

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Some are astounded at Jeffrey’s unmasking, but I'm not

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson arriving at Newry Crown Court on Monday June 22, 2026. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Arrest of Jeffrey Donaldson came at the height of his political powers

Morning View

Editorial: Hypocritical sanctimony from O'Neill over Irish

The UK will assist with the protection of Ireland's undersea cables under a recent deal. Image: Submarine Cable Map.

Answers needed on who pays for UK protection of Irish seas - Foster

Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee has revealed how she received online abuse from an IRA supporter wishing the terrorist group had killed her father during the Troubles

Arlene Foster tells peers she received online abuse about father’s shooting
Former Northern Ireland first minister Arlene Foster has said she received online abuse from an IRA supporter wishing the terrorist group had killed her father during the Troubles after she tried to ban “glorification of terrorism”.
Harry Taylor

Baroness Foster speaking during a House of Lords debate where she secured support to tighten the law on glorifying terrorism.

Government must address glorification of terror after Lords vote - Foster

Stormont First Minister has described the “gendered lens” through which her and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly are criticised.

Michelle O’Neill: ‘Gendered lens’ applied to her and Emma Little-Pengelly

Baroness Foster is hoping to secure House of Lords support for her big to tighten laws on glorifying terrorism.

Baroness Foster seeks to tighten UK law on glorifying terrorism

There is “growing suspicion” within grassroots unionism in Northern Ireland around reform of the Stormont Assembly, according to a former first minister.

‘Growing suspicion’ within grassroots unionism over Assembly reform – Foster

Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole.

SDLP's Stormont reform call ahead of return of former first ministers

Letters to editor

Letter: A strong vision for future requires unionist unity

Arlene Foster was a trailblazer and could be a leader in times of crisis

Letter: Foster's rise and fall a key lesson for unionism

Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Baroness Heather Hallett

Robinson disagrees with Hallett findings over Stormont pandemic response

Handout screengrab issued by UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry of Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Baroness Heather Hallett

Stormont response to Covid characterised by ‘petty party politics’, say bereaved

The report has concluded that the response in Northern Ireland, like the rest of the UK, was “a repeated case of too little, too late”

Divided Stormont led to ‘chaotic’ Covid response, public inquiry finds

Morning View

Editorial: Intertrade UK should focus on the problems with Windsor Framework,
News Letter Morning View on Saturday October 25 2025
Editorial

Intertrade UK, chaired by Baroness Foster, is comprised of leading business figures in Northern Ireland.

InterTrade UK calls on government to 'monitor and promote' dual market access

Peers “should be asking” how to help dying people “live better”, Arlene Foster has said

Dying people should have ‘care and compassion like my mother’ – Arlene Foster

Suella Braverman's comments on a border poll were 'ill-judged and unnecessary' - Baroness Foster says.

Foster slams Tory MP's 'ill-judged and unnecessary' border poll comments

The launch of Stephen Walker's book 'David Trimble: Peacemaker' (published by Gill Books) at the Great Hall in Queen's University on Tuesday evening (September 9). The event was introduced by the BBC journalist Mark Simpson, and guests included Lord Trimble's widow Lady (Daphne) Trimble. Photographs by Andrew Towe, Parkway Photography

New book reveals Lord Trimble's 'gracious' gesture towards former rival

Some of the guests at the talk on 'media misinformation' at Belfast Synagogue on Thursday this week.

Analyst talks on 'media misinformation' at synagogue

Baroness Foster is among over 40 peers to write to the government's attorney general.

Baroness Foster signs letter warning government its Palestine policy is illegal

Father Raymond Donnelly and Bishop Ian Ellis are among clergymen leading a procession as the coffins of murder victims Vanessa Whyte and her children Sara and James Rutledge are carried from St Mary's Church in Maguiresbridge, Co Fermanagh. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

'God Himself weeps with us' as emotional service held for shooting victims

Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee has launched a paper with Suella Braverman on leaving the ECHR.

Braverman and Foster reveal proposals for NI leaving ECHR

Grace Moffett, aged 11, watches an Orange Order parade in Belfast as part of the 'Twelfth of July' celebrations. Picture date: Friday July 12, 2024.

GB News unveils live Twelfth coverage plus new documentary

Kneecap performing on the West Holts Stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Police launch criminal investigation into Glastonbury performances

Former First Minister Arlene Foster at Parliament Buildings on 11th January 2016 with her mother Georgie Kelly who has passed away peacefully in hospital

'A woman of strong faith': Tributes paid to the mother of Arlene Foster

Executive Committee chair Paula Bradshaw said she had concerns around its value for money

Value of Stormont Executive’s office in Beijing questioned

Former first minister Baroness Arlene Foster giving evidence for module 7 to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry in London

No evidence of fall in Covid rules compliance after Storey funeral, O’Neill says

King Charles during a visit to the Cancer Research Centre at Ulster University, on day two of the royal visit to Northern Ireland. Picture date: Thursday March 20, 2025.

King learns about latest cancer research as visit to Northern Ireland continues

Former Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster, now Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee.

Baroness Foster: 'Courageous' President Zelensky will have to give up land

Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee will head up Intertrade UK.

Hilary Benn: Intertrade UK body will ‘protect internal market'

Morning View

Editorial: DUP should back clarity when Stormont leaders meet Chinese officials

Dame Arlene Foster

Former Northern Ireland minister calls for judicial review after Clonoe inquest

Morning View

Editorial: Arlene Foster is right - a PM should not celebrate terrorist bombers

Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee has called for legislation banning those in authority from 'glorifying terrorism'.

Baroness Foster: Ban Sinn Fein's 'continued glorification' of terrorism

Maureen Johnston, who lives in the Castlereagh Hills and whose husband is ill, has been without power since Friday morning, and is dependent on her fire for heat and hot water

Concern raised for elderly and vulnerable in Storm Eowyn response

Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee has warned about the impact on Northern Ireland's agriculture sector - and UK food security - from the government's so-called 'farm tax'.

Baroness Foster says farm tax will ‘cut at fabric of rural Ulster’

Morning View

Editorial: MLAs must have confidence to scrutinise - for Stormont's credibility

The DUP's former director of policy Lee Reynolds talks about the future of unionism at a Together UK event at Queen's University in Belfast. The academic Dr Peter Shirlow also addressed the gathering. Picture by Ben Lowry November 28 2024

Together UK event sets out positives for unionism in a changing NI

Baroness Foster pictured with friends, dating back to their days as Queen’s students

Arlene Foster portrait unveiled at Queens University

The 1987 IRA bombing of Enniskillen remembrance was one of the worst atrocities during the Troubles. Photo: Pacemaker

Police investigating pro-IRA sectarian abuse at remembrance event

Ex-US President Donald Trump has claimed victory in the 2024 US Presidential Election. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)

From 'gurning' to congratulations - NI parties respond to Trump victory

Morning View

Editorial: Straightforward answers required from first minister

News you can trust since 1737

© 2026 Iconic Media Group Ltd. All rights reserved.Terms and Conditions Privacy notice