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The DUP's deputy leader Gavin Robinson says there has been a total failure by the government to address concerns about the Windsor Framework. Photo: PressEye

Government needs to move on talks - DUP

The DUP's deputy leader Gavin Robinson says there has been a total failure by the government to address concerns about the Windsor Framework. Photo: PressEye

DUP: Talks no indication a deal is closer

DUP MP Sammy Wilson says the government's Rwanda proposals could ultimately lead to checks on people within the United Kingdom. Photo: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

Rwanda plan could replicate Irish Sea border for people - Wilson

The consultation, launched today, gives an overview of potential water and sewerage charging revenue raising options which could be introduced

Consultation opens on introduction of water charges in Northern Ireland

Sinn Fein received the largest sum, accepting £294,257 in the third quarter of 2023 according to the Electoral Commission

NI parties receive almost £600,000 in donations - with SF top of the list

Belfast City Hall. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Irish signs survey goes back to residents after Alliance and Greens back DUP

The DUP have attacked Alliance's record on helping Northern Ireland get a better post-Brexit trade deal. Photo: Colm Lenaghan /Pacemaker

DUP: Long should apologise over Protocol

Morning View

Editorial: Time to replace Independent Reporting Commission with a new body

Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron speaking during his first monthly question time in the House of Lords. Photo: House of Lords/UK Parliament/PA Wirent/PA Wire

Lord Cameron: Framework can meet DUP tests

Street preacher Ryan Williamson from Loughbrickland regularly uses an amplifier to preach outside Belfast City Hall on LGBT issues.

Council probe into preacher amplifier consultation

Morning View

Editorial: The DUP and UUP are right to defend strand one

DUP MP Carla Lockhart has warned about any Dublin role in NI's internal affairs - and said that the NI Protocol is the "most significant governance defect within the institutions at present".

No Dublin role in NI's internal affairs – DUP MP

DUP peer Lord McCrea in the Lords - Parliament TV

Peer's anger at Lords who 'want to humiliate unionists and destroy the Union'

Mr Beattie said his party has always called for a “factory reset” to the settings of the 1998 agreement, which received the support of over 71% of the electorate in a referendum at the time(Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Any changes to Stormont Executive ‘must be put to the people’ – Beattie

DUP Deputy Leader Gavin Robinson has told party members that Northern Ireland needs a lasting financial settlement to address issues such as public sector pay.

DUP: Stormont collapse has “absolutely no bearing” on budget

The then first and deputy first ministers in September 2021 - Paul Givan and Michelle O'Neill. Pic: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

'Joint first ministers' rebrand among proposals aimed at restoring Stormont
A rebranding of the first and deputy first minister titles, and opening those posts to all of the parties, are among a number of proposals aimed at restoring the power-sharing executive at Stormont.

Michelle O’Neill commissioned the Bengoa Report, which made the same recommendations for hospital reform as past reviews, yet Sinn Fein is already campaigning to keep all local services open. The idea it will support what needs to be done to modernise the NHS is risible. Conor Murphy's budget was judged to lack "a coherent strategy and failed to set out its priorities properly" Pic: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker

Owen Polley: A restored Stormont will be a shambles unionists can easily oppose

The DUP has been under huge pressure to return to Stormont but David McNarry writes that he despairs at others urging unionists to go back into government with the NI Protocol still in place

Letter: Unionists are not interested in crumbs of comfort

The DUP Deputy Leader Gavin Robinson wants the UK Covid Inquiry to look at the contrast in the PSNI's handling of Black Lives Matter protests and the Bobby Storey funeral - where thousands came onto the streets of west Belfast.

UK Covid Inquiry must ‘shine a light’ on PSNI and SF – Robinson

Baroness Kate Hoey says she hasn't seen enough progress for Sir Jeffrey Donaldson to sell a deal to his party on Stormont's return.

Allister says key test for deal can't be fudged

Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris has declined to explain why he can intervene on a wide range of issues - but not the pay claims of striking public sector workers. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

NIO silent on ‘pic-n-mix’ interventions on strikes and other issues

Diametrically opposed parties are permanently in government at Stormont as long as they secure a quota of votes

Letter: No point being in opposition in a one party state

Letters to editor

Letter: Export controls are key to finding solution to NI Protocol problems

Dame Priti Patel has urged the UK and EU to prioritise 're-opening' the Windsor Framework, calling for the UK government to 'put an end to the tentacles of EU control over Northern Ireland'

Letter: Patel’s timely reminder of framework’s constitutional problems

Former Home Secretary Priti Patel has urged the government to re-open the Windsor Framework

Patel shows unionists shouldn’t give up Stormont ‘leverage’ – TUV

Letters to editor

Letter: Quality items don’t even need a good salesperson

The DUP should consider the benefits of choosing not to go into the executive, and instead be the assembly’s principal opposition, if Stormont returns, writes David Hoey

David Hoey: Opposition is noble, and DUP should consider the benefits
In all the talk about the restoration of a Stormont assembly it is assumed that it is essential for the DUP to share power with Sinn Fein, the Alliance Party and the UUP. The SDLP are no longer in the mix.

(left to right) Tanaiste Micheal Martin, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Michelle Donelan, at Farmleigh House, Dublin during the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference

NI Secretary looking for a 'sustainable Executive that lasts the course'

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has told party members that he's not fixated by timeframes amid speculation that a deal is imminent. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

Donaldson: Green lane neither 'acceptable or practical'

Peter Robinson said Northern Ireland could have the best of both worlds with seamless access to both the UK and EU market. But if our rules for trading goods are set in Brussels, it will always be costlier and more expensive for mainland companies to send products to this province

Owen Polley: No unionist worth the name would accept being semi detached from GB

Ulster Unionist Party MLA Mike Nesbitt

Mike Nesbitt fears for the future of Unionism as he reflects on DUP's leadership

Peter Robinson is backing one of his successors as DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson in a return to Stormont. Interventions by Lord Dodds and Sammy Wilson were the confirmation that there is an unavoidable split in the party

Ben Lowry: DUP divide is now clear, and it is over the primacy of EU law in NI

The EU has made clear that the Windsor Framework is not up for negotiation.

EU silent on DUP sea border ask

Ulster Unionist Party leader, Doug Beattie, MC, wants the DUP back in Stormont. Photo: Tony Hendron.

Doug Beattie: DUP objectives "always unachievable"

DUP Education Spokesperson Diane Dodds says the Department of Education’s consultation on Relationships and Sexuality Education must take account of the ethos and values of schools.
Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Sex education consultation must consider school ethos says DUP

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton Harris speaks to the media after the British Irish Council meeting at Dublin Castle on Friday

Heaton-Harris: DUP talks in "final stages"

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has reiterated the DUP's position on how any deal will be assessed by the party. Photo: Presseye/Stephen Hamilton

Donaldson: Stormont only works with cross-community consent

Unionist leaders Doug Beattie, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Jim Allister have had varying approaches to dealing with the post-Brexit trade arrangements.

Protocol ‘straitjacket’ will prevent DUP's customs ask – Allister

Ben Habib - who was involved in a legal case against the NI Protocol - says he can't see how Chris Heaton-Harris could give "any sort of satisfaction" on Sir Jeffrey's call on customs processes. Photo: Pacemaker.

Sir Jeffrey running out of time – Ben Habib

David Campbell

Unionist farm figure says DUPWindsor Framework stance on should be backed

Patricia Logue - Sinn Fein Mayor

DUP criticises ‘antisemitic’ pro-Palestine banner from council meeting protest

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is awaiting action from the Government over long-running talks to address unionist concerns on post-Brexit trading arrangements.
Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Reports Donaldson and Heaton-Harris cancel US trip

Still from YouTube video on Council meeting - on BBC

PSNI probe after Pro-Palestinian protesters halt council meeting in Londonderry

The issue of EU law is seen as central for some unionists seeking to remove the Irish Sea border. (Pic: PA Images)

UK and Brussels confirm EU law is here to stay

This summer marked 25 years since the Drumcree standoff. By refusing any compromise the Orange Order lost its image of invincibility, writes Alex Swan. Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Letter: It's a choice of stubborn intransigence or compromise

Morning View

Editorial: Refreshing to hear UFU talk about problems with the Irish Sea border

The DUP should not return to the assembly until the Northern Ireland Protocol, which will cause widening separation with the rest of the UK, is scrapped. Westminster considers power-sharing devolved government to be an essential part of a process designed to secure an all Ireland

Bob McCartney: Staying out of Stormont is only card left against Irish unity

Sammy Wilson pictured today in the Commons

Tax cuts welcomed by DUP - but Wilson slams lack of action on nursery costs

DUP MP Sammy Wilson says the former first minister Peter Robinson has got it wrong on a return to Stormont before all issues with the Windsor Framework are resolved.

DUP MP: Robinson is "fundamentally wrong" on Stormont

Letters to editor

Letter: Who’s the blackmailer?

Lord Empey said the DUP was in a cul-de-sac of its own making. Photo: Arthur Allison: Pacemaker Press

Lord Empey: Peter Robinson 'launched like a political distress flair'

Jim Allister MLA has called Peter Robinson's intervention on DUP - Government talks over the Irish Sea border "folly".

Allister hits out at Robinson's "flawed analysis" on Stormont return

Just a few examples of PFLP flags on display at Palestine demonstrations in the Republic of Ireland

DUP to write to Gardai over displays in support of PFLP terror group

"No self-respecting unionist" could support EU law in NI - Bryson

The former first minister Peter Robinson has intervened on what he believes the DUP needs to secure from any future deal with the government.

Peter Robinson: Deal needs to be done by New Year