Doug Beattie MC MLA

Jacqui Durkin has been appointed as the new Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.

MLA calls for fundamental review of Police Ombudsman's office

Jon Burrows MLA has faced his most difficult week yet as Ulster Unionist Party leader. Pic: PA

Jon Burrows says the past week has 'tested' the Ulster Unionist Party

Doug Beattie MC MLA told the Ulster Unionist Party conference at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Belfast: "Those responsible for the violence need to be held to account." Pic Declan Roughan / Press Eye October 11 2025

It is time to go after those who directed terrorism, Doug Beattie tells UUP

Susan Smith (left) and Marion Calder (right), co-directors of For Women Scotland, celebrate outside the Supreme Court in London after terms "woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex, the Supreme Court has ruled. Photo: Lucy North/PA Wire

Windsor Framework could impact UK Supreme Court sex ruling in NI

20 PSNI officers were injured within a 24-hour period across Northern Ireland

TUV leader Jim Allister claims policing review in South Armagh was 'wrongheaded'

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (right) and Taoiseach Simon Harris drink a pint of Guinness during his visit to Chequers earlier this month. The much-touted reset in relations cannot be a reason not to challenge Ireland. Photo: Carl Court/PA Wire

Doug Beattie: Ireland ignores its role in Troubles despite suing UK on legacy

Morning View

Editorial: Some of the sympathy for Sir Jeffrey Donaldson did not last long

If the DUP decide to restore NI as a functional part of the UK devolved government at Stormont, the UUP will wholeheartedly support it. Regardless of the decision, the unhelpful charade that there will be changes to the Windsor Framework in the short term must end

Doug Beattie: This juncture for Northern Ireland requires moral courage

The aftermath of the Shankill bomb on October 23 1993. We remember the nine people killed, and many others who were injured. Picture: Pacemaker

Doug Beattie: Thirty years after Shankill bomb, SF till eulogising the bombers

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson delivers his keynote speech during his party's annual conference on Saturday. His speech included the UUP argument that direct rule would be bad for Northern Ireland: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Doug Beattie: If I said what DUP leader has said I would be called a Lundy

A triumphant Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O'Neill (left) and President Mary Lou McDonald at Belfast City Hall for the recent local election count. Their surge has been brought about by their pragmatic stance on reversing their purist republican credentials, swallowing up their negative historical stance with a charm offensive which has worked and worked spectacularly. Photo Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Doug Beattie: A fully functioning Stormont will stop swing to SF in its tracks

Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie MC MLA, who was a captain in the Royal Irish Regiment

Those calling me a traitor are not the people I stood beside in battle: Beattie

Robbie Butler

IN FULL: Robbie Butler out of UUP leadership race

IRA terrorists pictured on the Whiterock Road in Belfast during the Troubles

Doug Beattie: My thoughts are with victims of IRA terrorists like McCann

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald, ex leader Gerry Adams, and northern leader Michelle O'Neill with other Sinn Fein members at the Bobby Storey funeral last year. The funeral organisers were Sinn Fein, who sit on the executive that wrote Covid rules. Liam McBurney/PA

Doug Beattie: It is simply not credible to say SF were unclear about Covid rules

Many people have long held the suspicion that there is a culture within the Northern Ireland Office which is subservient to Dublin’s Department of Foreign Affairs

It is welcome that NIO will not be returning to Lambeth talks
The secretary of state should be congratulated for providing much needed transparency with regard to any future involvement by NIO officials in any talks or seminars designed to address legacy issues, writes DOUG BEATTIE.
Doug Beattie

Letter to the editor

Doug Beattie: Dublin has been vocal in demanding a Pat Finucane inquiry but it m...

These soldiers should be recognised for giving so much of themselves in the service of their country

Doug Beattie: I am concerned that the NIO is resisting medals for army bomb disp...

The entire legacy process presented an opportunity for ‘lawfare’ in which to rewrite history

Doug Beattie: ‘We welcome the recognition of need for major changes to the Storm...

Julian Smith said to Sinn Fein "we need to talk about the specifics of legacy," according to Doug Beattie. Perhaps Mr Smith will come forward with a different version of what happened

Ben Lowry: A major political row is brewing over legacy

Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams carrying the coffin of IRA commander Brian Keenan in 2008

Doug Beattie: There would appear to be evidence to prosecute Gerry Adams

A crowd of men with their faces covered and wearing berets led the funeral procession to St Peters Cathedral for the funeral of Martin McElkerney

Masked men at Martin McElkerney INLA funeral ‘deeply hurtful for terror victims’

Johnny Mercer, third from left, beside policeman, joins other MPs or ex MPs to hand in a petition to 10 Downing Street last October signed by 104 MPs and peers and senior ex military figures calling for lasting legal protection for veterans. Among them, pictured third from right, is Danny Kinahan, the former Ulster Unionist Party MP. Photo: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Doug Beattie: If Johnny Mercer thinks the treatment of ex security forces is bad...

Northern Ireland Office staff made it clear that no changes to the legacy plan have been agreed by the government

Doug Beattie: Be warned — the DUP and Sinn Fein legacy plan is still on track

NI Secretary Karen Bradley in the House of Commons. Doug Beattie says: "The secretary of states clumsy remarks in Westminster dominated the headlines. I remain concerned that she will come under pressure to force through the Historical Investigations Unit demanded by Sinn Fein"

Doug Beattie: We will not support the betrayal of victims on legacy to placate S...

Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Robin Swann (left) and his party colleagues John Stewart (centre) and Doug Beattie arrive at Stormont for talks with Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday February 6, 2019. They raised the legacy of the Troubles with her. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Doug Beattie: We outlined our fear to Theresa May that proposals to tackle legac...

MEP UUP Jim Nicholson.
Pic: Pacemaker

UUP: tactical blunders have led to flawed Brexit deal
Tactical blunders throughout the Brexit negotiating process have led to flawed Withdrawal Agreement, according to UUP MEP Jim Nicholson.
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Sir John Gillen's preliminary findings make more than 200 recommendations

Gillen review: Trials open to public '˜must be default position'

Dobbin Road Portadown Motorcycle accident - death 11-10-18

Motorcyclist killed in crash is named locally

Dobbin Road Portadown Motorcycle accident - death 11-10-18

Motorcyclist killed in crash was just 22-years-old

Canadian judge Peter Cory, above right, was appointed by the secretary of state John Reid, above left, to examine instances of alleged collusion in murders in Northern Ireland. Judge Cory highlighted several dictionary definitions of the word including to co-operate secretly: to have a secret understanding and he also added definitions of connive, a synonym of the verb collude.
Photo by Simon Graham,
Harrisons

Legacy Scandal: '˜Collusion is a meaningless term used to smear security force a...

PSNI

West Belfast shooting last night was '˜vile terrorism'

Doug Beattie says: "Unlike Michelle ONeill (above) I call for Sinn Fein who hold the corporate knowledge of the atrocities of the IRA to also deliver the truth to the victims of the IRA. Stand up for human rights as you have said but remember, the IRA were responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in our more recent history."
Picture by Arthur Allison/Pacemaker

Doug Beattie: NI will never forget that SF promoted, endorsed and justified huma...

The Heights Bar at Loughinisland in Co Down, which was attacked by loyalists in 1994, leaving six men dead. Photo: PA/PA Wire

Doug Beattie: Perceptions of bias are a fact of life in N Ireland

An Garda Siochana

More time granted to quiz Dublin Semtex suspects

The UK rule of law, and not a Frankenstein investigation system, is key to PSNI integrity

NI does not need international team of Troubles investigators

The scene of Sunday night's shooting on the Crumlin Road in north Belfast.
Picture by Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Doug Beattie: This cowardly gun attack is just like Troubles attacks

Official IRA man Joe McCann who was killed in Belfast in 1972. Photo: Pacemaker, Belfast

'˜Joe McCann was a ruthless and dangerous terrorist'

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams (left) during a Sinn Fein press conference at the Davenport Hotel in Dublin at which Mr Adams was confronted by Austin Stack, whose prison officer father Brian was murdered by the IRA. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Doug Beattie: '˜Garda should interview Adams'

Captain Doug Beattie, now a UUP MLA, pictured with an Afghan commander in Afghanistan.

Report scathing on NI help for ex-servicemen

A forensics officer examines what appears to be shot gun damage to a house in Princes Street Lurgan

Shooting in Lurgan being treated as '˜hate crime'

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