Devolution

DUP leader Gavin Robinson speaking during a press conference outside Belfast City Hall, as Labour leader Andy Burnham is confirmed as the new Prime Minister

New Prime Minister Burnham pressed for ‘early engagement’ on NI

Morning View

Editorial: Andy Burnham an unknown quantity for NI

Liam Kelly accused administrations in Belfast and London of “passing the parcel of blame in a game of unedifying brinkmanship”

Devolution in Northern Ireland has been ‘disastrous’ – Police Federation chief

The Supreme Court in London hands down its judgment on the legal definition of a woman in April. To suggest the ruling doesn’t apply to NI is an affront to the constitutional order. Pic: PA Video/PA Wire

Jim Allister: Equality Commission tries to circumvent UK Supreme Court on trans

The new leader of the UUP has warned that Stormont will “be gone for good” if powersharing collapses again.

Stormont ‘gone for good’ if powersharing collapses, UUP leader tells party

Claire Hanna with her husband Donal Lyons, at the Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast, during the count for the 2024 General Election. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

SDLP deputy leader Claire Hanna retains seat at Westminster

A new £9m school at Rowandale Integrated in Moira was among some of the recent announcements by the Department of Education. An additional £80million of capital funding for education this year was announced recently

Paul Givan: Change is coming to NI education system

Gavin Robinson was speaking to the BBC's Talkback programme. Photo: BBC News NI

DUP won’t pull the plug on Stormont again

The Good Friday Agreement did not achieve 100 per cent support in 1998 - what's needed is consensual mutual co-operation and support across Europe and these islands to build a better future

Letter: Co-operation across these islands will help us forge a better future

Mutual enforcement - whereby the UK and the EU enforce each other’s rules in respect of goods being traded across the border - could bring back the Stormont Assembly, says Lord Dodds

Lord Dodds: ‘Mutual enforcement’ is a solution to protocol problems

Jeffrey Donaldson says the deal removes the ‘incentive’ of a snap election for anyone that collapses the Executive.

Can Sinn Fein collapse Stormont again? DUP’s Sir Jeffrey Donaldson defends stabi...

Stormont

Talks resume to restore NI powersharing

Julian Smith at Stormont House last night, when he appeared to blame the DUP for stalemate in the talks

Smith blames the DUP over talks yet it is Sinn Fein who brought down Stormont

The book 'Burned' shows that devolution cannot be restored without a fundamental reform of the structures that ultimately led to the collapse of the Stormont Executive.

Photo Laura Davison/Pacemaker Press

RHI book exposes structural flaws in the Stormont settlement

The book 'Burned' shows that devolution cannot be restored without a fundamental reform of the structures that ultimately led to the collapse of the Stormont Executive.

Photo Laura Davison/Pacemaker Press

RHI book exposes structural flaws in the Stormont settlement

Sinn Fein deputy leader Michelle O'Neill. Photo Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Michelle O’Neill: Sinn Fein will reject any assembly veto over backstop
A restored executive cannot have any veto over the working of the border backstop, Sinn Fein’s Stormont leader has said.
By The Newsroom

Michelle O'Neill accused the government and DUP of 'taking a hatchet and sledgehammer' to the NI economy

Brexit: Michelle O’Neill rules out prospect of Stormont veto on backstop

Abortion is the responsibility of the NI Assembly, the prime minister has said

Many people in NI would welcome PM re-stating her view that abortion is devolved...

Glyn Roberts, Retail NI

Business organisation backs call for more powers for local councils

Derek McCallan, Chief Executive of NILGA.

Call for local councils to be given more resources and responsibilities in absen...

The Scottish Parliament

Devolution '˜subverted' over fear of Sinn Fein: MSP Mike Russell

Letters to Editor

We need wholesale review of how our government works

The loyalist blogger and activist, Jamie Bryson. Pic by Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker

Jamie Bryson tells committee Belfast Agreement '˜a moral stain'

Jamie Bryson

Alliance '˜intolerant' after snubbing NI affairs committee over Jamie Bryson

Ian Paisley

Paisley: Sinn Fein talks a '˜waste of time'

Colum Eastwood, centre with SDLP colleagues Nichola Mallon and Claire Hanna, appears on TV urging compromise but the party comes to nothing. Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Devolution is dead and so the SDLP face a choice

SF only ever saw devolution as a means to an end
At last: unionists have woken up to the fact that Sinn FÃ©in are not interested in devolution.
By The Newsroom

Morning View

If calls to return Stormont are heeded, then SF gets its way

Jim Allister: Unionists should reject devolution if it must include SF

Rule from London is stable at least, instead of derisory institutions. Photo: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

NI will do far better under direct rule

Stormont

Sinn Fein must refocus on wider issues to restore powersharing, says DUP MP

Alliance party leader Naomi Long addressing the media in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings, Stormont. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday April 11, 2017. See PA story ULSTER Politics. Photo credit should read: David Young/PA Wire

Long: Devolution cannot be squandered because of vanity projects of individual p...

Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill addresses the media surrounded by party colleagues in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings, Stormont.

Michelle O'Neill: powersharing talks have made no progress

SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood. (Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press)

Save devolution by voting for change - SDLP leader

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood

SDLP: Eastwood calls for 'partnership' to fix Stormont 'corruption and chaos'

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