Declan Kearney

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Editorial: Sinn Fein should learn to compromise with unionists

DUP MLA Phillip Brett, left, with party leader Gavin Robinson MP. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

DUP tell Sinn Fein to 'stop blaming everyone else for its own failures'

Conor Murphy said ‘the wheels could come off the wagon’ at Stormont

Owen Polley: SF’s tantrums are sign of weakness in polls

Israel and the US have continued to launch heavy strikes against Iran

Letter: Iran stance is blatant hypocrisy from SF

Unionist parties in the Assembly joined forces to force a cross community vote on a SF proposal.

Unionists unite to force cross-community vote on bid for EU ‘observer status’

The Sinn Fein motion describes the current situation as a “democratic deficit”.

Unionists unite to force cross-community vote on bid for EU ‘observer status’

Sinn Fein’s national chairman Declan Kearney confirmed the partner of a female member of the party had been arrested as part of the Garda investigation into two alleged far-right extremists

Sinn Fein party member expelled after partner arrested in far-right probe

The meeting in Antrim was organised by Rev Paul Thompson who gave subsequent media interviews to the BBC and Cool FM, and was attended by Sinn Fein chair Declan Kearney who claimed to have been personally invited by the Rev Thompson. Image taken from BBC TV footage

Letter: We regret that Free Presbyterian ministers would be used over Irish

TUV MLA Jim Allister speaking during proceedings at the Northern Ireland Assembly in Parliament Buildings

TUV leader Jim Allister ‘excluded’ from Windsor Framework scrutiny committee

Diane Forsythe at Stormont – she will vice chair the finance committee

Sinn Fein to chair Windsor Framework committee

Parties have picked the chairs and vice chairs of scrutiny committees as they seek to keep tabs on how Executive rivals are performing.

Key scrutiny jobs at Stormont announced

MLAs gather for their first day of full business since the Assembly recall

Assembly selecting scrutiny committee chairs

Palestine solidary rally in Londonderry - 29 October 2023

Speaker at a pro-Palestine rally says ‘We understand living under occupation’

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly

Foreign Secretary set for talks with Stormont parties following EU-UK deal

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

DUP leader: Protocol talks with Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin proved 'us...

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 6th May 2022 -
Northern Ireland Assembly Election Count at Ulster University, Jordanstown
Sinn Feins Declan Kearney who has made the required amount of votes at the first count.

Photo by Stephen Hamilton / Press Eye.

ELECTION 2022: SF all-Ireland chair tells the DUP it must re-enter Stormont ASAP
Declan Kearney, Sinn Fein’s national chairman, has insisted that there must be no pre-conditions to forming a new government.
Adam Kula

PACEMAKER, BELFAST, 6/5/2022: DUP leader, Jeffrey Donaldson at the Northern Ireland Assembly elections count at Jordanstown. The North, South and East Antrim constituencies plus Lagan Valley and North Down are being counted there. With DUP MP Sammy Wilson
PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

ELECTION 2022: 'Unionists must overcome differences to resist destroyers of NI'

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

Mike Nesbitt - Ulster Unionist Party at the Northern Ireland Assembly Election Count at Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

ELECTION 2022: Ex-UUP boss calls on party to be patient with Beattie leadership

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Election count at Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast for Belfast East, Belfast South, Belfast West, Belfast North, East Antrim & South Down.

Allianceâ€TMs Kellie Armstrong tops the first preference poll in Strangford

Photo: Kirth Ferris/Pacemker Press

ELECTION 2022: Winning Alliance candidate declares ‘God save the queen!’

Doug Beattie

ELECTION 2022: Beattie still ‘100% a leader' as he is sixth in first-pref votes

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 6th May 2022 -
Northern Ireland Assembly Election Count at Ulster University, Jordanstown
Sinn Feins Declan Kearney who has made the required amount of votes at the first count.

Photo by Stephen Hamilton / Press Eye.

ELECTION 2022: South Antrim – SF's all-Ireland chairman trounces all comers

Sinn Fein are a cancer corrupting Ireland, as are any other parties or independents who justify terrorism of any stripe, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Vote down the ballot for the good guys so that SF lose

Nichola McKee Corner said the people who leaked the two-year-old letter 'should hang their heads in shame'

Lyra McKee sister: Leak of SF/Saoradh letter exploiting Lyra’s murder

Saoradh colour party marches from Free Derry corner to the City Cemetery in Londonderry, as part of an event to mark the 1916 Easter Rising. Picture date: Monday April 18, 2022.

ELECTION 2022: Letter to Saoradh shows Irish unity still a SF priority, says DUP

Jamie Bryson

Northern Ireland Protocol: Jamie Bryson in call for non-violent protest

Eastwood

We could lose Irish unity referendum over the NHS: SDLP leader

News Letter editorial

It was right to establish FICT but its prospect of consensus was always slim
News Letter editorial of Thursday December 2 2021:
Editorial

News Letter editorial

Attacks on UK legacy plan ignore the context of de facto amnesty for terrorists

School principal Francis Lagan. Dept of Education image

Tribute to ‘dedicated and passionate’ school principal killed by falling tree

Francis Lagan, principal of St Mary’s Primary School in Maghera

Tributes to ‘renowned educationalist’ who died after car was hit by falling tree

The poll of polls was carried out by Professor Jon Tonge

Survey of all polls since Brexit shows only 39% support for united Ireland

PACEMAKER BELFAST 01/07/2021 DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

Donaldson against ‘having to accept laws of court over which we have no control’

First Minister Paul Givan speaking to the media at Stormont. Picture date: Monday September 6, 2021.

Givan gives a welcome to Protocol grace periods

Deputy First Minister, Michelle O'Neill.

Fully vaccinated deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill tests positive for Covid

Flags have been erected on lamposts at the Craigavon Area Hospital roundabout.

Call for publication of ‘flags and culture’ report

With Lord Mayor of Belfast Alderman Frank McCoubrey is Junior Minister Gordon Lyons, Simon Hamilton, Chief Executive Belfast Chamber, and Junior Minister Declan Kearney as they encourage people to shop safely and support local retailers in the run up to Christmas

Belfast prepares to light up for the Christmas season this weekend

Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill appear to have united in public – but it is a mirage. The real decisions have just been delayed – again.

Sam McBride: DUP and Sinn Féin unity around a slogan is empty – they still can’t...

A man wearing a face mask walks past an entrance to Belfast City Hospital

‘We can’t legislate our way out of crisis’, say DUP and SF ministers

Junior Minister and Sinn Fein MLA Declan Kearney.

NI ministers promise new strategy to avoid further lockdowns

Finance Minister Conor Murphy

NI government business goes on despite four minister self-isolating

Junior Minister Declan Kearney admitted that what he was asking MLAs vote vote on was weeks out of date

Sam McBride: Five things we learned at the Stormont Assembly this week (but you ...

Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill rammed the bill through the Assembly with minimal scrutiny – but now are slow to make a subsequent change

Mystery over ministerial code delay amid rumours of another DUP rebellion

The Assembly chamber resembled a scene from the theatre of the absurd this week – but it doesn’t need to be like that

Sam McBride: An avoidable flaw in how Stormont makes coronavirus law is leading ...

Alex Kane: Gerry Kelly tweet a sign of growing Sinn Fein frustration at stalling...

Alcohol

Expected 11pm curfew to be announced for hospitality industry in NI

Gerry Kelly MLA

SF Minister backs Gerry Kelly over ‘shameful’ Maze escape tweet

Michelle O’Neill this week contradicted her party chairman – seemingly without even realising that she was doing so

Sam McBride: Sinn Féin thought Covid would hasten Irish unity, but increasingly ...

The assembly is part of the plan for a united Ireland but in the short term it could be used tactically to apply pressure on our national government over arrangements to operate checks at our ports

Unionist MLAs should do what they can to frustrate the Irish Sea border

Sam McBride: Mystery and suspicion surround one question: Why did Arlene Foster ...

Ministers Nichola Mallon and Declan Kearney have given conflicting information about what this week's Stormont bill means

Bill to bring clarity causes confusion as ministers immediately dispute what it ...

Junior Minister Declan Kearney, Srebrenica survivor Mevlida Lazibi, Finance Minister Conor Murphy and Junior Minister Gordon Lyons at a tree planting in Stormont on July 9 to mark 25th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Scale is the key difference between the evil massacres in Srebrenica and Norther...

MLAs spent just ten minutes on the bill – and there was no debate whatsoever

Despite serious concerns, Assembly takes just 10 minutes to nod through bill to ...

Crowd in Milltown Cemetery listening to former Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams speak during the funeral of Bobby Storey.

Sinn Fein abused society with Bobby Storey funeral attendance - Doug Beattie

Vehicles arrive at Larne Port in Northern Ireland. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

UUP’s Lord Empey: Cabinet must admit there will be an Irish Sea border due to Br...

McDonald's drive thru in Bangor. (Photo: Presseye)

Queues of cars as McDonald’s drive-thrus reopen in NI

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