David Campbell

UUP leader Jon Burrows MLA

UUP leader calls for Law Society chief to step down over character reference

As Jeffrey Donaldson rose through the political and Loyal Order ranks, his Fish buttonhole badge became a trademark symbol of his Christian faith. Even during the weeks of his trial, as he arrived at court each morning, his lapel would sport the Fish badge

John Coulter: Challenge of undoing damage done by Donaldson's conviction

The aftermath of arson at a house on the Shore Road, not far from Seaview, on Thursday night, which is being treated as 'hate-motivated' by police

DUP leader: 'We need a collective British Isles approach to immigration'

Naomi Long says it is distressing for victims to listen to good character references given for perpetrators of sexual abuse.

Naomi Long wants character references for convicted sex offenders scrapped

Lady (Daphne) Trimble and Richard Trimble beside the bust to their late husband and father, David Trimble, at its new display location in the Pugin Room in the Palace of Westminster, on February 10 2026

Bust of ex NI first minister Trimble moved to prominent position in Westminster

The combined left coalition led by Sinn Fein that united around Catherine Connolly saw its percentage share of the poll drop by a third compared to the Dail election last November. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

David Campbell: Unionism can learn from results of Irish presidency election

Unionists faithfully implemented even those parts of the Belfast Agreement they found unpalatable. They now need to know that Belfast's Irish campaign is the thin end of the wedge

Letter: As unionists who backed 1998, we say Irish is being used to undermine it

Dual language sign in Newry Mourne and Down District Council. The Ulster Unionist veterans writing in today's News Letter say that unionism needs to wake up to the fact that Irish language policy in Belfast is just the thin end of the wedge

'Imposing Irish is contrary to Belfast Agreement' say veteran Ulster Unionists

Lord Speaker, Lord McFall of Alcluith (right) conducted the ceremony

Westminster statue an 'appropriate tribute' to the legacy of Lord David Trimble

The Loyalist Communities Council has urged people only to fly Union Flags and The Ulster Banner to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day on 8 May.

LCC urges only Union Flag and Ulster Banner flown on VE Day

In 2005 cross-border smuggling (mostly controlled by PIRA) cost the UK and Irish exchequers £300 million annually in lost duties. This has grown to close to £1 billion per annum. Does anyone seriously think that PIRA simply handed this over?

David Campbell: We an investigation into the IRA's role in organised crime

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has welcomed the PKK’s declaration of a ceasefire after a 40-year conflict, but warned that Turkiye will be ready to keep fighting if the outlawed Kurdish group fails to disband

Letter: Ceasefire shows that dialogue and inclusion work

Education minister Paul Givan Pic Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker

Loyalists 'advise education minister Irish language school should not proceed'

Sinn Fein Health Minister Bairbre de Brun in the Sinn Fein office at Stormont after it was searched by police in 2002. The raid was part of an investigation into a republican spy ring, and the events promoted the collapse of the fledgling Assembly amid unionist concerns about republicans' commitment to peace. Photo: Paul Faith/PA Wire

IRA murders and spy ring at Stormont 'released' government from Finucane promise

The July 4 election revealed the divisions within unionism. Yet there are no signs of the parties looking inward to reassess what exactly are the principles and objectives of unionism today and beyond, writes David McNarry

Letter: Unionist parties must hold summit meeting

Managing director David Campbell (right) with Emmy Award winner Foy Vance. Foy gifting David a hand signed guitar

Pictures: High five to NI Hi-Fi firm as it marks 36 years of musical dedication
Generational family business with stores in Dungannon and Lisburn Kronos AV is now a global name in the Hi-Fi industry having been born out of frustration and a £1,000 loan
Claire Cartmill

Nigel Farage has introduced a refreshing realism to the general election campaign including his recent pronouncements in respect of the elections in Northern Ireland. Like him, I am not in the DUP but will vote for Sammy Wilson and would for Ian Paisley. Photo: James Manning/PA Wire

Letter: Nigel Farage right about Russia and right about who to back in NI poll

A rally organised by the TUV and Reform UK. It is a united unionist group to vote for

Letter: There is a revolution in wider unionism taking place

Letters to editor

Letter: UUP imply that only unionists who implement protocol should stand for MP

In most constituencies it is clear who is the most likely candidate to win. We ask lesser unionist parties to have as their sole objective the maximising of the number of unionist MPs

Ulster Unionists in plea to leaders: Parties should run joint poll candidates

Over a decade ago there were proposals for a national multi-sports stadium on the Maze site outside Lisburn. The site is still largely undeveloped, writes David Campbell

Letter: Proposal for a stadium at Maze site should be revisited

Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) representatives L-R David Campbell, Jim Wilson, Jackie McDonald and Winston Irvine. Photo: Pacemaker Press

LCC silent on claim it backs the DUP's deal to restore Stormont

David Campbell

Unionist farm figure says DUPWindsor Framework stance on should be backed

There is no loyalist voice on the Policing Board, says David Campbell. Remedying this situation would be part of the 'long list of requirements needed to restore unionist confidence in the Northern Ireland justice system'

David Campbell: Now is the time to correct imbalance in justice system

Newry City manager Gary Boyle pictured with Barney McKeown. Picture: Brendan Monaghan Photography.

Barney McKeown makes a return to Newry City following Portadown stint

Then Prime Minister Tony Blair with his Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam at Stormont in 1998. Her failure to link prisoner releases to decommissioning and her publication of the controversial Patten report on policing without consulting the main parties hampered the formation of an Executive for nearly two years and cost the UUP significant public support. Picture Pacemaker

Belfast Agreement @25: The deal was the best we could get, says David Campbell

Former Chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party David Campbell.

LCC chairman David Campbell seeks clarity over 'tough' budget comments
The Secretary of State has been urged to clarify remarks his spokesperson made regarding Northern Ireland's financial difficulties.
Johnny McNabb

TUV leader Jim Allister says the Commons vote today in support of the so-called Stormont Brake changes nothing in terms of the Windsor Framework - which he says leaves the EU's "ill-gotten sovereignty" over NI untouched.

TUV: Commons vote for Stormont Brake 'changes nothing'

The Alliance Party's Stephen Farry told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) was being treated as a “de facto” political party

Stephen Farry: Media platform given to LCC risks ‘eroding democracy’

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is making no further comment on deliberations

Unionist parties won’t be rushed to a decision over Windsor Framework

Former prime minister Boris Johnson suggested he may not vote for Rishi Sunak's new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland. Photo credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Pressure on DUP to reject Windsor Framework as it denies split on deal

The original Northern Ireland Protocol would see the Irish Department of Agriculture in Dublin coordinate any response to an animal health emergency in Northern Ireland - and could see southern inspectors on Ulster farms, it is claimed.

LCC claims Dublin would direct biosecurity emergency in NI under NI Protocol

File photo dated 11/08/09 of Jim Gamble

Former counter-terror officer hits out at Loyalist Communities Council

David Campbell says that the fact that DUP has kept its word has helped loyalists keep the confidence of their members

'If DUP goes soft on Protocol it will stir unrest in UVF/UDA ranks'

An anti-Protocol demonstrator's sign

Protocol: LCC chief fears 'substance' of unionist complaints being ignored

David Campbell

Chair of loyalist forum hits out at Beattie for Protocol remarks

Judge any deal with the EU on whether it repairs breaches to the Belfast Agreement. The UUP needs to stand firm at this critical time in the negotiations

David Campbell: The UUP now no longer seems to defend essence of 1998

Cattle (by JeroenBennink, from Creative Commons)

Vet meds: Loyalist leader laments 'lack of firmness' from UK govt in face of EU

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney during a press conference at Hillsborough Castle last month

Owen Polley: Substance of any protocol deal more important than getting one

Jim Allister has urged unionists to remain resolute

Don't be swayed by NI Protocol ‘mood music’, TUV leader tells unionists

The government has not delivered an end to the Irish Sea border or sufficient material change to the NI Protocol to repair the breaches to the Belfast Agreement that its imposition has caused

David Campbell: The DUP are right to stand by their electoral pledge

David Trimble at the Omagh bomb site

David Trimble: Rows with NIO over flight home from Europe after Omagh

Conor Murphy and Michelle O’Neill. Their mantra is that the DUP is stopping allocation of funds to ease living costs

Sinn Fein is cynically trying to weaponise poverty against DUP

David Campbell is a former chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party and was a negotiator for them in the 1998 Belfast Agreement

David Campbell: We need to reverse the DUP change at St Andrews

A sign at Larne port, one of countless anti-Protocol placards and pieces of graffiti which have appeared over the last year across Northern Ireland

Any move against the Protocol must have backing from where it counts: NI itself

Former UUP Chairman David Campbell has challenged the party over its transfer votes policy. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker.

Ex-UUP chairman challenges party over transfer votes for other unionists

David Campbell

LCC chairman warns over ‘playing with fire’

Letter to the editor

Sandra Chapman would have been better to give away her £100 high street voucher

Prime Minister Boris Johnson with church leaders at the service to mark the centenary of partition/Northern Ireland on October 21. It would be a travesty if the rest of the world were to think that the service was reflective of opinion in NI.

Photo by Jonathan Porter / Press Eye

David Campbell: We need to make plans for a proper celebration of NI at 100

Letter to the editor

David Campbell: Varadkar insulted British citizens by saying UK can’t be trusted

Letter to the editor

Leo Varadkar has just insulted all British citizens

PUP leader Billy Hutchinson at his party's annual conference

PUP leader continues call for unionist convention

The Olympic flag flies in Tokyo last month. There is no Republic of Ireland team that enters the Olympic Games, writes Dr Liston. The Olympic Federation of Ireland is constituted as a 32-county body and the official team name is Ireland

Athletes from NI may elect to represent Ireland or Team GB

Ireland's Kellie Harrington with the tricolour flag during the closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Photo: Mike Egerton/PA Wire

It is not acceptable for NI athletes to have to compete under foreign flag

The Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) in 2016 – from left, David Campbell, Jim Wilson, Jackie McDonald and Winston Irvine

Loyalist group accuses Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney of ‘vetoing’ talks

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