Baroness Hoey

Irish Football Association Chief Executive Patrick Nelson. The IFA's strategy to bring Euro 2028 to Northern Ireland was entirely contingent on Casement Park's redevelopment - and now lies in tatters. Photo: Steve Welsh/PA Wire.

IFA's Euro 2028 strategy in tatters over Casement fiasco

Letters to editor

Letter: Only Jim Allister has had the grasp of detail to expose the NI Protocol

Permanent Irish Sea border infrastructure will be in place by 2025. Earlier this year ​the government revealed the cost of constructing border inspection posts required as a result of the Windsor Framework could reach £192.3 million.

Permanent sea border infrastructure in place by 2025 - report

A question by Baroness Kate Hoey on the number of checks carried out on the Irish Sea border uncovered a new government policy of not revealing the information in order "not to undermine" the scheme. The crossbench peer described the government position as "extraordinary". Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

London stops release of sea border checks information

Former Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Lord Empey at the Stormont, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

Northern Ireland 'sold out' as livestock export ban set to become law

'We stood on platforms with DUP members protesting against the border': In 2022, Jim Allister, Baroness Kate Hoey, Ben Habib and Jamie Bryson with the then DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson at an anti-protocol rally in Bangor

Allister, Bryson, Habib, Hoey: DUP missed chance to end deception over border

TUV leader Jim Allister, Baroness Kate Hoey, Reform UK deputy leader Ben Habib and Jamie Bryson have penned a joint letter to the News Letter

DUP urged to 'tell the truth' about Irish Sea border

The Alliance Party hasn't responded to questions on what it would do to ensure a GB ban on live animal exports for slaughter is introduced in Northern Ireland.

Alliance's EU loyalty 'trumps animal welfare' - TUV

The House of Lords will tonight discuss a Humble Address to the King, part of the Safeguarding the Union deal.

DUP peers to speak on Humble Address

Amendment to 'Humble Address' tabled

Bullying and blackmail do not work in Northern Ireland, former first minister Arlene Foster has told the House of Lords, as the UK Government was accused of withholding funding for public sector pay rises ahead of major strike action. Photo: Leon Neal/PA Wire

Bullying and blackmail don’t work in NI, Foster tells government

The NIO has refused to comment on reports Secretary of State will publish his proposals for a deal with the DUP if the party doesn't return to Stormont before the January 18 deadline for an election. It also says there is a "legal duty" to hold new elections - a threat Mr Heaton-Harris made previously, and then retracted. Photo: Jonathan Porter / Press Eye

Peer seeks to force publication of Protocol 'deal' text

Meanwhile, a Pro-Palestinian march has taken place in Belfast - organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Hoey accuses Sinn Fein of hypocrisy over Hamas

Baroness Kate Hoey tabled a motion of regret in relation to Windsor Framework regulations brought forward by the government

Unionist peers Windsor Framework motion fails

DUP peer Lord McCrea in the Lords - Parliament TV

Peer's anger at Lords who 'want to humiliate unionists and destroy the Union'

The DUP and TUV policy to stay out of the assembly is shown in a poll to have the support of the grassroots of unionism, says Kate Hoey

Unionists do not want Stormont back until there is no sea border, says Kate Hoey

​Baroness Hoey says unionists in Northern Ireland don't believe that Stormont can fix the problems facing society here, and has called for direct rule.

David Thompson

Baroness Hoey speaking during the Legacy Bill debate in the Lords on 21 June 2023

Labour peer Lord Murphy says Legacy bill ‘drives a dagger through victims’

Lord McCrea has told Parliament that Northern Ireland is being underfunded “by design” in a blackmail bid to restore Stormont.

NI ‘underfunding is blackmail bid to restore Stormont’, peers told

Letters to editor

Reg Empey: The dangerous rhetoric on the Windsor deal needs to be dialled down

President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen

Rishi Sunak to press on with Brexit deal talks as EU leader visit cancelled

Letters to editor

Letter: Baroness Hoey is right to call for support for the News Letter

Letters to editor

Letter: Baroness Hoey's appeal for support for the News Letter is timely

George Jones was turned off by the American sensationalism

Harry and Meghan on Netflix: George Jones turns off, Baroness Hoey won't watch

Former UUP leader Lord Empey

Northern Ireland politicians have been stabbed in the back over Protocol

Kate Hoey speaks during an anti Northern Ireland Protocol rally and parade, organised by North Antrim Amalgamated Orange Committee, in Ballymoney, Co Antrim. Picture date: Friday March 25, 2022.

Delay of NI Protocol Bill could mean another six months without government in NI

Image from all-island agency Tourism Ireland, promoting St Patrick’s Day in Dublin

We are relying on a tourism agency that acts as if Ireland is all one country

Liz Truss is a determined woman who won’t have taken much festive break. Hopefully top of her civil service reading papers over the holiday period was the Belfast Agreement

Baroness Hoey: I expect that Liz Truss will know that the NI Protocol must go

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has a huge job with a daily constant stream of international issues needing attention.

Kate Hoey

Letter to the editor

Query for the DUP on the party’s aspiration to end this Stormont coalition

Lord Dodds. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

'Crucial NI Protocol decision must have cross-community consent'

Sinn Fein want Northern Ireland to be destroyed as part of a united Ireland, so why would they make NI prosperous and stable?

Kate Hoey: Montgomery fails to recognise that SF won’t work for interest of NI

Letter to the editor

McNarry: An optimistic unionist outlook is overdue, but for after the election

The participants included (left to right) Jim Allister, Kate Hoey and David Trimble. Picture Press Association

VIDEO: Unionists hail Conservative Party fringe event on Northern Ireland

Tight security outside the Manchester Central Convention Complex during the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester yesterday. Today's debate involving the Northern Ireland unionist leaders will take place outside but near to this main conference zone. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

NI Protocol: Unionist leaders take fight to Conservative conference

Letter to the editor

Brexit Protocol has opened NI up to banned animal feed

Loyalists take part in a peaceful protest in the Shore Road area of North Belfast in opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Consensus from Brussels, Dublin & London that NI Protocol changes needed

Baroness Hoey in the House of Lords yesterday where she moved an amendment to the government’s Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill seeking equivalent protection for those army veterans who served in Northern Ireland from 1969

Baroness Hoey: Protection for veterans should apply to those who served in NI

News Letter editorial

Northern Ireland needs libel reform, to bolster free speech