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Preparatory clearing work began at the derelict Casement Park site earlier this year. Pic: PA Wire

DUP minister Gordon Lyons says Casement not deliberately delayed

The then DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and NI Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris with copies of the ‘Safeguarding the Union’ document earlier this year. But maintaining the Union is no longer enough as London salami slices our rights within it

Letter: Tory-DUP deal to bolster the Union has not been delivered

The entrance of HMP Magilligan in Londonderry. Photo: Google Maps

Naomi Long's justice department to spend £13 million on prison cafe

DUP leader Gavin Robinson has expressed confident in the future of the iconic Belfast shipyard. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Robinson: Harland and Wolff news 'unsettling' - but MoD committed to Belfast

Irish Football Association Chief Executive Patrick Nelson. The IFA's strategy to bring Euro 2028 to Northern Ireland was entirely contingent on Casement Park's redevelopment - and now lies in tatters. Photo: Steve Welsh/PA Wire.

IFA's Euro 2028 strategy in tatters over Casement fiasco

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at Stormont Caste recently. Already the government has shown spectacular naivete towards an Irish government that has sued the UK on legacy. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: It is too early to say if Labour will be positively bad for unionists

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Editorial: Stormont has indeed at times seemed to use the begging bowl

Grangeville Drive, Belfast. Photo by Google.

Irish street signs approved for two house street with 50/50 voting split

Geraldine Finucane, widow of Pat Finucane, and daughter Katherine, at Downing Street to meet Prime Minister Tony Blair and push for a public inquiry, back in 2000. Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA Wire

Finucane Public Inquiry: Decades of past probes costing £20m

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Editorial: Stormont plan is progress, yet it will struggle to tackle big issues

Former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson leaving Newry Magistrates' Court, after a preliminary enquiry in July, where he is charged with several historical sexual offences. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Jeffrey Donaldson is due back in Newry Crown Court today

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Alliance Leader Naomi Long at Belfast City Hall on Friday.
Voters went to the polls on Thursday to decide who would represent them on the 11 councils.
A total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote, according to the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland.

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DUP motion calls for Naomi Long apology over PSNI letter row

The DUP claimed to have effectively removed the sea border, harming its credibility. Voters could only assume that the party exaggerated deliberately, or that it was hoodwinked by the government. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Owen Polley: Unionist parties need to set out a vision for NI, not just tactics

Sports Minister Gordon Lyons, right, with Ulster GAA secretary Ciaran McLaughlin, left, Co Armagh captain Aidan Forker

DUP sports minister Gordon Lyons attends GAA event

DUP health spokesperson Diane Dodds has questioned 'marked' disparities in the time surgeons spend in theatre across Northern Ireland's various health trusts. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Dodds queries surgery disparities across NI health trusts

Letters to editor

Letter: As an ex head I back phone ban, but teachers need support enforcing it
A letter from Arnold Carton:
Letters

The programme for government will set out the priorities for the devolved powersharing Executive for the remaining two-and-a-half years of the Assembly term.

Stormont ministers meet to consider programme for government

This week, Gavin Robinson questioned the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper about what the government will do to rectify the consequences of the Rwanda policy for the UK's immigration policy. The TUV says that is the wrong approach.

Robinson taking wrong approach to immigration policy - TUV

This vote is mandated by Article 18 of the Windsor Framework, and (unless the EU-imposed law is amended) must take place at Stormont before the end of the year

Dan Boucher: Impending forced majority vote is anything but democracy

Gavin Robinson questioned the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper about what the government will do to rectify the consequences of the Rwanda policy for the UK's immigration policy.

Robinson asks government to repair 'damage' from Tory immigration policy

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Editorial: Mike Nesbitt makes plausible points about unionist unity

Racist and sectarian graffiti is believed to have been spray-painted onto the exterior walls of a number of unoccupied new-build house in the Church Brae area of Londonderry

Foyle MLA Gary Middleton condemns graffiti attack in Londonderry

Infamously, the DUP claimed to have got rid of the Irish Sea border through its Safeguarding the Union agreement with Rishi Sunak. After Gavin Robinson became leader, he acknowledged that his party ‘oversold’ its achievements. Photo by Jonathan Porter /Press Eye

Owen Polley: There's a risk unionists again repeat untruths on Irish Sea border

TUV leader Jim Allister took the North Antrim seat from the DUP at the general election.

DUP has no plans to 'face up to ramifications of deal'

DUP leader Gavin Robinson MP speaking at the resumption of the House of Commons in July.

Robinson: DUP has lessons to learn from election

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Editorial: A devoted MP for Foyle, Eastwood also oversaw 'greening' of tSDLP

Alliance ministers Naomi Long and Andrew Muir have remained tight-lipped about the Executive's decision to ban puberty blockers - but junior party members have publicly made their anger known. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Alliance reps 'given free rein to criticise expert advice' - TUV
The Alliance Party has been accused of giving its representatives “free rein” to criticise the advice of experts on the prescription of puberty-blocking drugs for children, amid silence from the party leadership on the issue as it attempts to avoid deepening internal divisions.
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General view of wheelie bins left outside properties (photo by David Potter/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images)

DUP councillor defends fines for people who consistently leave bins out

Northern Ireland is more reliant on home heating oil than anywhere else in the UK, leaving households facing large single payments to heat their homes during winter. Many people used winter fuel payments to fill their tanks.

Winter fuel payment cut: DUP warning over breaking benefits parity

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Editorial: There is a case for increasing the salary of MPs

Yellowman proved a popular choice yet again on Bank Holiday Monday at the Ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle

Large crowds at the Ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle on Bank Holiday Monday

Jim Allister, party leader of the TUV, in January this year (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

New Irish Sea border rules on parcels 'highlight how DUP lied to electorate'

Ami Saada (R) looks at a window that was damaged after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit his house on August 25, 2024 in Acre, Israel. On Sunday morning, Israel announced it had launched "preemptive" airstrikes on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah's preparations to attack northern Israel. Hezbollah responded by launching a series of drones against Israeli targets in retaliation for the recent death of one of its top commanders, Fuad Shukr, in an Israeli airstrike last month. A 48-hour state of emergency has been declared across Israel by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

'Pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah like defending against IRA or Russia'

One of the images tweeted out by Sinn Fein's local branch in Londonderry from the city's Pride march

Sinn Fein faces flack over LGBTQQIA+ Pride appearance

Alliance ministers Andrew Muir, Naomi Long - pictured here with former MP Stephen Farry - are likely to face a future decision on whether to extend a ban on puberty blockers, after a claim from the party's Lord Mayor of Belfast that it continues to "support those in need of access to puberty blockers". Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Alliance faces decisions on puberty blockers ban

Doug Beattie was the latest in what will soon be seven Ulster Unionist Party leaders in 14 years

Ben Lowry: UUP far from finished but like all parties struggles to find leaders

Belfast City Hall (taken from the council's own website)

DUP opposes Belfast council's planned new Irish language policy

Abjan Acharya had his business targeted in a racially motivated attack earlier this week. Photo: BBC Northern Ireland / BBC News NI

Poots questions loyalists involved in race attacks

Chief Constable Jon Boutcher met the Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the PSNI training centre in Garnerville in East Belfast this week.

Long under fire as PSNI chief defends his operational independence

Joey Dunlop, Northern Ireland's world motor-cycle road racing champion, with his Honda VFR 750F bike outside Buckingham Palace, London, before he received an MBE. A unionist MLA denied in 2002 that politicians were trying to exploit the death of motorcycle legend Joey Dunlop for political purposes, newly declassified files have revealed.

DUP MLA denied exploiting death of Joey Dunlop amidst racing circuit proposal

DUP leader Gavin Robinson released a statement after Doug Beattie stood down as the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party

DUP leader Gavin Robinson says maximising pro-Union vote is top of his agenda

Arlene Foster was environment minister in 2007. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Maze prison listing row began in 2007

How listed buildings at the former Maze prison near Lisburn should be used has been a sticking point for the redevelopment of the site, amid concerns about it becoming a 'shrine' to IRA terrorism. The DUP has told the News Letter its 'principled' objections have not changed. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Victims group challenges parties on Maze redevelopment

2 Royal Avenue (next to Primark, taken in 2022 while repair work was under way)

About £1m earmarked for LGBTQIA+ hub inside historic central Belfast building

The DUP has raised concerns that the planned flagship Maternity and Children’s Hospital already is relady ten years overdue. Photo: PA

Planned Flagship Maternity and Children’s Hospital ten years

The former H Block at the Maze prison near Lisburn has been at the centre of political controversy for over a decade. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

Maze 'IRA shrine' concerns resurface after museum partnership deal

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Editorial: Sinn Fein approach to past doesn’t bode well for the Maze

Lagan Valley MP Sorcha Eastwood is urging the government to invest in the Maze site as part of its plans for the GB Energy company.

DUP and Alliance at odds over GB Energy plans

The former H Block Maze prison at Long Kesh near Lisburn Northern Ireland. A museum at the site has been a long term goal of republicans. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Timeline of the Maze redevelopment saga

The Maze Prison will never be a shrine – but there is a “story to be told” about the Troubles-era prison, according to the DUP Education Minister Paul Givan

Givan: No IRA shrine at Maze - but site has ‘story to be told’

The watch towers at the former H Block Maze prison

Keeping Sands shrine at Maze Prison buildings ‘would horrify victims’

Rhys McClenaghan of Team Ireland performs his routine during the Artistic Gymnastics Men's Pommel Apparatus Final on day eight of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 03, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Naomi Baker/Getty Images)

Fresh call for Northern Ireland's athletes to get open-top bus tour

A green/red lane system for the movement of goods and "not for EU" labels were among key measures of the Windsor Framework - new arrangements for parcels entering NI will be in place from the end of September 2024. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Not available in NI – sea border bites dog breeders

This single-engine, turbo-prop plane is one of a limited number of non-combat Irish Defence Forces planes available - with the country having a reliance on the UK to protect its skies.

DUP leader: Ireland's defence policy is 'morally questionable'

Violent scenes - such as those witnessed in Sandy Row and Donegall Road in Belfast - followed anti-immigration protests across the United Kingdom after the killings of three young girls at a dance class in Southport. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Wilson: far-right violence used to 'smother' immigration debate