Doug Beattie

DUP MP Carla Lockhart has urged that the Mini-Twelfth in Portadown this weekend is no hijacked by rioters.

Don’t hijack Mini-Twelfth, warns Carla Lockhart MP

Former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams

Gerry Adams' libel case money should go towards IRA victims, says campaigner

Sorcha Eastwood MP (left) and Alliance Party leader and justice minister Naomi Long in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings at Stormont. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Alliance MP warns of ‘perception’ of unfairness amid criticism of minister

File photo of Winston Irvine leaving Belfast Crown Court. Irvine, 49, of Ballysillan Road in north Belfast was convicted of firearm offences. Photo: Liam McBurney /PA Wire

Doug Beattie questions why leading loyalist wasn't prosecuted under terror laws

Doug Beattie, former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, pictured at Stormont

'Far too many people wanted the claims of sectarian police to be true'

UUP MLA Doug Beattie.

Beattie slams O'Neill for chastising minister over single sex policy in schools

Ulster Unionist Party MLA Doug Beattie says taxpayers could foot the bill for legal cases challenging a decision by SF, Alliance and SDLP to ignore legal advice on single sex spaces.

MLAs set 'dangerous precedent' by rejecting legal advice - Doug Beattie

The murders of Protestants at Kingsmill were perpetrated by the IRA

Letter: Blame for the sectarian Kingsmill massacre rests fully with the IRA

Paula Bradshaw chairs Stormont's Executive Office committee, which is conducting an inquiry into "gaps" in equality legislation.

Beattie: MLA’s plan for courts to clarify new law a ‘dereliction of duty’

Steve Baker’s attitude, that NI must accept a relationship with the EU that he would never support for the rest of the UK, was indefensible. As was the implication that prioritising the Union, rather than Brexit, is zealotry

Owen Polley: Steve Baker's hypocrisy does not mean that Labour is better

Under current rules set down by Stormont's justice department, female officers are required to conduct intimate searches of men, provided they have a gender recognition certificate.

Justice Minister urged to change strip search rules after Supreme Court ruling

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has changed his position on what a woman is. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Beattie accuses PM of 'dithering' after U-turn on what a woman is

The Armed Forces Covenant confirms what we already know: delivery of the covenant is a patchwork approach to delivery

Letter: Government falling short on delivery of covenant

Cara Hunter, SDLP MLA, speaking on the Stormont Sources podcast about a tweet of hers which referred to the 'coloniser mindset'

Beattie says 'I am Irish - not a coloniser' as Hunter says no offence intended

Morning View

Editorial: Bail policy and jail sentencing is far too lenient in NI

Scottish nurse Sandie Peggie is taking Fife Hospital Board to tribunal regarding Dr Beth Upton, a trans doctor, being permitted to use a female changing room. Mike Nesbitt does not want any males in female changing rooms in Northern Irish hospitals. Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Northern Ireland's health minister backs single sex spaces in hospitals
Stormont’s health minister says it would neither be unreasonable nor unlawful to make NHS changing rooms and toilets female only as a matter of policy – and has requested a halt to new transgender policies in health trusts while a review is carried out.
David Thompson

The investigation began after police were called to a Holywood address linked to Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson in September 2023.

Three UK police forces involved in Marie Anderson case

Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair (left) leaving following the funeral service of Lord John Prescott at Hull Minster, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire on January 30, 2025.

UUP calls for probe into Tony Blair IRA files

The scene of the shooting at Clonoe in February 1992, when four terrorists were killed. A court recently ruled that SAS soldiers were not justified in killing the IRA members in the Co Tyrone ambush

Doug Beattie: I hope Clonoe ruling challenge is start of a pro-active approach

Ulster Unionist Party MLA Doug Beattie has laid the blame for the crisis facing policing at the door of the Alliance Party.

PSNI crisis can be traced back to 'successive Alliance ministers' - Doug Beattie

John Stewart MLA, Diana Armstrong MLA, Doug Beattie MLA, Cllr Kate Evans and Conor O’Kane, Manager at Dogs Trust Ballymena, with Fudge the dog

MLAs from the Ulster Unionist Party visit Dogs Trust Ballymena

The Bogside area of Londonderry is one of eight areas targeted by a 'transition' scheme aimed at reducing paramilitary control. Photo: Paul Faith/PA Wire

Beattie warning over lack of crime register for paramilitary 'transition' scheme

Sinn Fein’s Carál Ní Chuilín has said that the contribution of a women's group asking for single sex spaces was “disgraceful”.

MLAs tried to silence views of women's group - Doug Beattie

Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill (fourth left) meets the George Queens in Merrion Square during the Dublin Pride parade in 2023. Photo: Nick Bradshaw/PA Wire

Stormont ministers’ gender confusion is a ‘source of ridicule’ for the public

Police ombudsman for Northern Ireland Marie Anderson at her office in Belfast. Picture date: Thursday February 2, 2023.

Police Ombudsman receives 'monumental slap down' in landmark collusion case

The Omagh bomb inquiry began by reflecting on victims of the crime. Commemorative and personal statement hearings will be held over the next four weeks for victims of the dissident republican bomb attack, which killed 29 people and devastated the Co Tyrone town on August 15 1998

Letter: Dublin is preventing transparency over Omagh

Justice Minister Naomi Long opposed segregating prisons based on biological sex after a motion from the Ulster Unionist Party.

MLAs reject UUP motion on banning men from women's prisons
MLAs have rejected an Ulster Unionist Party motion calling on the justice minister to ban men who identify as women from being housed in the female prison estate in Northern Ireland – with the Alliance leader accusing the party of seeking to “play out culture wars”.
David Thompson

Ulster Unionist Party MLA Doug Beattie, who speaks for the party on justice policy.

Government accused of ‘dereliction of duty’ over Adams compensation ruling

Jack O'Connell as Paddy Mayne in the second series of the hit BBC series, SAS Rogue Heroes.

SAS Rogue Heroes: Fresh VC campaign for Paddy Mayne

Alliance MP Sorcha Eastwood. Photo: Oliver McVeigh/PA Wire

Police speak to MP over Stormont rape threat against her

Morning View

Editorial: Doug Beattie's motion on trans policy will force much-needed debate

Doug Beattie says police officers conducting strip searches - and those present - must match the biological sex at birth of the individual being searched. "There should be no exception to this rule", he added.

Only birth sex is relevant for police strip searches - Doug Beattie

Morning View

Editorial: Big challenges ahead for UUP in coming year amid internal divisions

Councillor Darryl Wilson, in a photo he shared alongside his resignation message

Complaint from councillor who quit this week went unanswered by UUP

Councillor Darryl Wilson, in a photo he shared alongside his resignation message

UUP councillor who was passed over for MLA seat quits the party

The UK government is taking the 'first steps' to repeal and replace controversial legislation designed to address the legacy of the Troubles, Hilary Benn has said

Letter: Stormont House Agreement is no solution to legacy issues

TUV MLA Timothy Gaston says Sinn Fein has faced a "historic reversal"

Sinn Fein has faced an electoral reversal 'of historic proportions’

Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald and deputy Michelle O’Neill in a media scrum at the RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin, counting centre

Sinn Fein clobbered by big drop in Irish general election vote

Doug Beattie says Sinn Fein's has had no vision apart from 'populist policies that swing left, right and centre dependent on public opinion'.

Sinn Fein's plans for a border poll are left 'in tatters' - Doug Beattie

Stormont Justice Minister Naomi Long said she will always ensure the PSNI is properly resourced

Minister Naomi Long pledges to 'always ensure PSNI is properly resourced'

The DUP promoted the idea that the Safeguarding the Union document fixed the Windsor Framework and the protocol, writes Doug Beattie

Letter: DUP must take ownership now secrets are spilling out

PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has received support from unionist politicians over his attempts to secure more funding for the force, after receiving a rebuke from the Alliance-run department of justice. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

PSNI needs 'adequate and guaranteed' long term funding

Chief Constable Jon Boutcher met the Prime Minister Keir Starmer to press him on PSNI funding.

Budget: Doug Beattie says Chief Constable's lobbying of Prime Minister worked

PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher will face questions on his force's current assessment of the IRA at the next meeting of the Northern Ireland Policing Board. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

PSNI accused of 'throwing up dust' on IRA security assessment

A 2015 assessment said Provisional IRA structures remain in existence. Yesterday, the PSNI said that the assessment ‘has not changed’

Doug Beattie: What does the IRA still have weapons for?

First Minister of Northern Ireland Michelle O'Neill and Sinn Fein's President Mary Lou McDonald have faced questions here and in the Republic over their handling of child safeguarding issues. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

SF's 'glowing reference' for Niall O Donnghaile raises leadership questions

Hugh Widdis, permanent secretary at the Department of Justice, giving evidence at the Northern Ireland Assembly justice committee hearing where he defended his actions of sending a letter to Northern Ireland's police chief where he warned him about a direct funding bid he made to the prime minister

No regrets on Jon Boutcher letter, says top civil servant

Morning View

Editorial: O'Neill's credibility is indeed damaged by SF sex offender reference

Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt has said there are questions for Sinn Fein over the Michael McMonagle case - bit drew a distinction between that and Michelle O'Neill's role as First Minister. Máiría Cahill says we "need to be careful not to apply different hats to politicians".

Nesbitt and Beattie at odds over First Minister's position

Michelle O'Neill says she did not know the whereabouts of her former colleague Michael McMonagle (left, highlighted) during the period this image was taken. This still from a video taken by BBC Northern Ireland in February 2023 shows Michelle O'Neill standing a few yards from him. He was suspended from the party at the time after it emerged he was being investigated by police for child sex offences - he has subsequently been convicted. The First Minister said “I was not aware that Michael McMonagle was at that event.”

First Minister's position on paedophile's whereabouts 'not credible' - MLA

Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt remotely addressing his party's conference in south Belfast.

UUP Conference: Nesbitt focuses on hope, prosperity and health

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons said it is important that ministers meet with all who have an interest in Northern Ireland

LCC meeting with education minister: Important to listen to all, says Lyons

Mike Nesbitt

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt tests positive for Covid

Mark Hamilton was a deputy Chief Constable in the PSNI. He faced a vote of no confidence from the Police Federation last year over his handling of the controversy surrounding the policing of a memorial on the Ormeau Road - and subsequent unlawful disciplinary action taken against two junior officers.

Mark Hamilton: Senior PSNI officer at heart of Ormeau Road row to retire

Mike Nesbitt, who is now leading the UUP, will be formally ratified at the party's conference later this month. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Nesbitt only unionist leader not to comment on Finucane inquiry

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