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The Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill requires that the 90,000 children in Northern Ireland in receipt of free schools meals receive financial help during the holidays, including summer, Christmas, Halloween and half-term breaks.

MLAs back holiday hunger Bill for 90,000 NI children which could cost £20m

Deborah Erskine speaking during a farmers protest at Stormont back in August. Pic: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

Daera got it badly wrong on cattle cull – DUP’s Erskine

Upper Newtownards Road passes through both residential and shopping districts. Image: Google

Bid to build Irish signs over four miles of unionist area fails

Michelle O'Neill with Sinn Fein MLAs Pat Sheehan (left) and Danny Baker speaking to the media in the Great Hall of the Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast.

O’Neill claims DUP ‘punishing children’ by blocking Bills over Drumcree row

Alliance Party deputy leader Eoin Tennyson said the unionist party had “weaponised children” as part of a “culture war”.

Alliance Party accuses DUP of ‘gambling’ with Stormont institutions

Sinn Féin MLA for West Belfast, Pat Sheehan.

DUP move to block Irish-medium education blatant sectarianism –Sheehan

‘Bryson bounce’ not in Northern Ireland’s interests, says DUP leader

Undoubtedly, this has been a difficult few years for unionism, writes Paul Givan

Paul Givan: ‘Time all shades of unionism acted with their head’

Jeffrey Donaldson and Paul Givan at an earlier count centre in Newtownabbey

Givan: ‘Utterly betrayed’ by Donaldson after sharing office

UUP leader Jon Burrows MLA (third from left), has appealed to rival unionists to join his party. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Burrows: Unionism faces defining moment after decades of 'strategic gaffes'

Sicily Park. Image by Google

DUP bid to block Irish signs beside loyalist area fails

Shankill Leisure Centre. Proposals for new padel facilities at the centre have been opposed. Photo by Google

Shankill ‘no’ to padel court at leisure centre

Fine Gael leader and Tanaiste Simon Harris speaking at the Ard Fheis at University College Cork. Picture date: Saturday November 7, 2026.

There is 'no one figure’ on cost of Irish unification, says Tanaiste

MP Carla Lockhart, Jamie Bryson, and DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley outside Carleton Street Orange Hall in Portadown, back in September. Pic: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Jamie Bryson hints at Stormont election bid in fiercely contested constituency

The data centre is close to the River Bann, on the edge of Ulster University's Coleraine campus

Protest against AI data centre as MP accuses objectors of 'howling at the moon'

Alliance Party deputy leader Eoin Tennyson wants to ban attempts to change someone's sexuality or 'gender identity'. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Stormont conversion bill is overwhelmingly rejected in public consultation
The Alliance Party should drop legislation aimed at banning so-called conversion practices according to opponents, after Stormont officials revealed that just 6.5% of responses to a consultation on the controversial legislation were in favour.
David Thompson

Independent unionist Carla Lockhart has urged unionists to 'hold their head high' in their professional lives.

Carla Lockhart questions manner of DUP's call for unionist unity

Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart quit the DUP this week to sit as an independent unionist. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Lockhart wants lawbreaking politicians turfed out of office under 12 month ban

The Police Service of Northern Ireland badge - agreeing the new emblem was seen as the first big test, says Pauline McCabe.

Pauline McCabe: Agreeing a new PSNI emblem was first big test

Jonathan Buckley MLA . Pic: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

DUP to trigger Stormont Brake over proposed EU law changes

In 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU - but post-Brexit deals kept Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.

Stormont bypassed as UK and EU agree new rules on AI, parcels and forced labour

Carla Lockhart has left open the possibility of running in May's Assembly election. Pic: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

Carla Lockhart doesn't rule out Assembly election run

DUP MP Carla Lockhart speaking during an Orange Order parade in Portadown, Co Armagh. Picture date: Saturday October 24, 2026.

Lockhart: Leaving DUP was a particularly painful and difficult decision

DUP leader Gavin Robinson (second from left), alongside Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly (left) and party colleagues deputy leader Michelle McIlveen MLA (third from left) and Trevor Clarke MLA (right), speak to the media during a press conference at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast, where he discussed the prospect of unionist unity following the Drumcree parading dispute. Picture date: Monday November 2, 2026. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Robinson insists party ‘fully behind’ his position on Drumcree dispute

Clement Cuthbertson pictured with Carla Lockhart

DUP councillor resigns after 20 years with the party

Independent unionist MP Carla Lockhart has written an open letter to unionist voters.

Carla Lockhart says she wants to build a grassroots unionist movement

DUP MP Carla Lockhart speaking during a Drumcree event at Edgarstown Estate, Portadown, Co Armagh in September. Pic: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

Lockhart quits DUP over its refusal to remove O'Neill as First Minister
Carla Lockhart has resigned as a member of the DUP over the party’s refusal to accept her demand to remove Michelle O’Neill from office over her attendance at an illegal protest on the Garvaghy Road.
David Thompson

Jonathan Buckley prompted debate within unionism over cooperation talks. Pic: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

DUP's Buckley warns nationalists would be 'affronted' at TUV proposals

UUP leader Jon Burrows. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA WIre

UUP contests DUP claim that unity talks set to happen

DUP MLA for Upper Bann Jonathan Buckley says he's been accused of being a plotter and lightweight as part of a dirty tricks campaign against his unity idea. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA

MLA claims dirty tricks campaign after Unionist unity call

Ciara Mageean with her bronze medal at the Women's 1500m Final at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in 2019. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA

Mary Peters leads tributes to tragic athletics star Ciara Mageean

DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley, during a press conference at Carleton Street Orange Hall in Portadown, Co Armagh, back in September. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

DUP's Jonathan Buckley in call for unionist unity over Drumcree

DUP MP Carla Lockhart speaking during an Orange Order parade in Portadown, Co Armagh. Pic: Mícheál Ó Scannáil/Press Association

Carla Lockhart expected to quit DUP early next week and sit as independent

Prime Minister Andy Burnham chairing a meeting of the National Economic Council alongside Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey (right) and Juliet Chua, Director General, Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat in Glasgow. Northern Ireland was not represented. Pic: Russell Cheyne/Press Association

NI absence from UK economic forum not a 'meaningful sanction' for O'Neill

Seapark Beach in Holywood.

Mechanical beach cleaning plan is blocked

Intertrade UK panel Dr Esmond Birnie, Suzanne Wylie, Baroness Arlene Foster, Angela McGowan, Kirsty McManus, Roger Pollen.

Trade body to meet GB businesses over Irish Sea border challenges

Michelle O’Neill has claimed that Emma Little-Pengelly has “blocked” representation from the region at a major political event in Scotland

Michelle O’Neill: I’ve been ‘blocked’ from attending event by ‘DUP stunt’

Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart has been the most vocal voice within the DUP calling on the leadership to withdraw deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly from the Stormont Executive

DUP party officers to meet amid ongoing fall-out over Drumcree dispute

Jay Basra highlighted that the Order of Service for the QUB Remembrance Sunday service on 8 November stated that Orange collarettes were not to be worn.

Royal British Legion distances itself from QUB Orange collarette row

Orangemen at Drumcree Church in Portadown. A planned parade was blocked by the NI Secretary on October 9

Commission wrong to allow Drumcree parade says poll

DUP MLA Diane Forsythe (left) has backed colleague Carla Lockhart's call for Michelle O'Neill to be removed from office.

Forsythe backs call for O'Neill to go - and for DUP to block official events

Diane Forsythe has joined Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart in urging her party to withdraw deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly from the Stormont Executive

DUP MLA joins calls for removal of Michelle O’Neill as Stormont First Minister

Eddie Curtis from SOS Daisy Hill speaks to crowds in Newry on Sunday about the closure of maternity services. NM264370

Trust still moving maternity services - mothers face two hour drive

DUP MP Carla Lockhart speaking during an Orange Order parade in Portadown. Pic: Mícheál Ó Scannáil/Press Association

MP quit DUP role on 'principle' - rejecting colleague's 'token gesture' comment

A major parade and rally took place in Portadown this Saturday, October 24, organised by Portadown District LOL 1, with Orangemen and the "entire Orange family" and wider unionist community turned out in numbers. The district says the event is intended to demonstrate the "strength of feeling" locally following the recent decision to overturn a determination allowing its traditional Garvaghy Road parade to proceed. Picture By:Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

Thousands attend Portadown rally backing Drumcree Orangemen

DUP MP Carla Lockhart has defended her decision to resign as a party officer amid a deepening row with the leadership over the future of Stormont.

After News Letter exclusive Carla Lockhart says ‘It’s about principle’

Veteran unionist commentator Alex Kane. Photo: PA

Alex Kane on Carla Lockhart: MP 'not yet crossed her Rubicon'

Carla Lockhart satisfying hardliners by resigning party position - Wilson

Carla Lockhart outside Drumcree Parochial Hall in Portadown. She has resigned as a party officer amid a deepening row with the leadership over the future of Stormont.

Lockhart quits as DUP party officer amid rift with leader over Stormont’s future

Education Minister Paul Givan (left) and DUP leader Gavin Robinson speak to the media at Parliament Buildings in Stormont, Belfast, following a meeting with Secretary of State Sir Chris Bryant. Picture: Rebecca Black/Press Association

DUP voices hope of funding gap ‘potentially closing’ to allow budget agreement

DUP deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly claimed Sinn Fein First Minister Michelle O’Neill had rejected an invitation for the both of them to meet Chief Secretary to the Treasury Emma Reynolds alongside Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant.

SF and DUP at odds on budget meeting plan ahead of talks with NI Secretary

Stormont opposition leader Matthew O'Toole

Stormont fight 'distraction from real scandal' of no pay rise before Xmas: SDLP

First Minister Michelle O'Neill today left a Stormont scrutiny committee early to travel to Musgrave Street police station in the centre of Belfast, where she was interviewed about her participation in an allegedly illegal demonstration that blocked the first permitted Drumcree Orange Order march in almost 30 years. Photo: Brian Lawless/Press Association

Stormont leaders' appearance before Assembly committee ends in acrimony

Jeffrey Donaldson outside Newry Crown Court in June, where he was found guilty of multiple historical sexual offences. He is currently serving a 15-year sentence. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

New Donaldson probe: DUP say party 'never received any report or complaint'

Jeffrey Donaldson arriving at Newry Crown Court during his trial in June.

Breaking Jeffrey Donaldson accused of 2016 rape inside Westminster

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