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Editorial: Still not talking honestly on health pressures

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks on the phone to US President Donald Trump during a visit to the West Midlands. Photo: Alberto Pezzali/PA Wire

'Significant questions' for UK government on Trump trade deal - Allister

Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly has explained why she described a Stormont job title as "hugely politically embarrassing" for her.

Deputy FM: Text messages messages showed opposition to trade divergence

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks on the phone to US President Donald Trump during a visit to the West Midlands. Photo: Alberto Pezzali/PA Wire

Historic UK-US trade deal announced - UUP warns it could harden Irish Sea border

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking in Tonbridge, Kent after Reform made significant gains in English local elections. Photo: PA/PA Wire

Unionists should focus on Nigel Farage's 'anti-European Union' stance - Wilson

Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly described a civil service job ad as “hugely politically embarrassing for me". Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

DUP 'more concerned with hiding truth' than confronting sea border damage: TUV

Mr Benn talks of benefits to NI in an EU deal but we’ve been down this route many times before

Owen Polley: More wildly optimistic claims about the Irish Sea border

TUV MP Jim Allister has hit out at the UK Internal Market scheme.

Allister: Irish Sea Border 'noose' tightens further on business

Morning View

Editorial: Ever more obvious border in Irish Sea shows it is far from gone

The Royal Armouries - based at the Tower of London over many centuries - says it is unable to sell a military history book to Northern Ireland because of Irish Sea border rules. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Book sales from iconic Tower of London museum stopped over Irish Sea border

Crawford Ewing of Ewing's the fishmongers has spoken out about the headaches caused by the Irish Sea border

Fish supplier says Irish Sea border 'disastrous' after shipment turned back

TUV leader Jim Allister.

Windsor Framework is more 'immediate threat' to NI than future border poll - TUV

Despite the UK leaving the EU, Northern Ireland must follow decisions by the Court of Justice of the European Union in certain areas, due to the Windsor Framework.

Windsor Framework will likely impact Supreme Court's landmark sex ruling - MP

Belfast's Grand Central Station is to get new Irish language signs - at an estimated cost of £145,000 - just months after it opened

Letter: Irish language signs row is not the real problem

Stena Superfast

Enjoy the fresh Ayr

Internal UK trade has been disrupted by the Irish Sea border created by the post-Brexit Windsor Framework.

Alliance call on PM Starmer to drop 'red lines' on EU relationship
The Prime Minister needs to drop “self-defeating red lines” when it comes to United Kingdom’s future trading relationship with the European Union, the Alliance Party has said.
David Thompson

Food entrepreneur Peter Hannan is targeting global markets with Moira’s Abernethy Butter

Moira butter maker’s fame spreads to global markets

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland holds his trophy after winning the 111th US Open by eight strokes over Jason Day with a record 268 at Congressional Country Club on June 19, 2011, in Bethesda, Maryland. AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Rory McIlroy: Fourteen years of ecstasy and agony until full victory

Food entrepreneur Peter Hannan is targeting global markets with Moira’s Abernethy Butter

Moira butter maker’s fame spreads to global markets

Stena Line declares 2025 the year of pet travel

Stena Line declares 2025 the Year of Pet Travel

The King and Queen arriving at a service for the Order of the British Empire at St Paul's Cathedral, London. The Cathedral can no longer sell commemorative memorabilia relating to the event to Northern Ireland. Photo: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

King's Honours memorabilia not for sale in NI under Irish Sea border rules

President Donald Trump reveals his list of ‘reciprocal’ tariffs last week

Owen Polley: Sea border advocates never cared about NI’s economy

Larne's Shaun Want in action against Dungannon Swifts earlier this season. (Photo by Desmond Loughery/Pacemaker Press)

Larne star hasn't made decision on future with contract set to expire

General views of the Belfast harbour estate seen on January 17, 2023. There is the possibility that goods coming into NI ports could be subject to different tariffs than those elsewhere in the UK

'Anyone who thought the Protocol was minor must now realise they are wrong'

Esmond Birnie

'It is very likely NI must follow EU lead on retaliation against Trump tariffs'

Jim Shannon speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday

Fears that Irish Sea border may harden due to Donald Trump's tariff trade war

Jack Steele has objected to the ongoing influence of the EU in NI affairs

Unionist student 'optimistic' message about EU involvement in NI getting through
A unionist student has said he feels optimistic that his message is being heard about the disenfranchisement of Northern Irish people due to the Irish Sea border.
Adam Kula

Former Reform UK deputy leader Ben Habib (left) and TUV leader Jim Allister during the TUV election manifesto launch in June last year. The TUV has almost certainly won over voters who would previously have considered the party’s image too hardline

Owen Polley: TUV's fierce opposition to sea border has transformed its fortunes

Party leader Jim Allister speaking at the TUV party conference in Cookstown on Saturday

TUV conference: Allister says party's growing strength is 'rooted in truth'

Leo Varadkar held the post of taoiseach from 2017 until 2020, returning to the role in 2022 before resigning in 2024. In the House of Commons today, TUV leader Jim Allister accused Mr Varadkar of 'partitioning' the UK during the Brexit negotiations

Jim Allister: Varadkar ‘partitioned’ UK by pushing border in Brexit talks

Welsh Government's Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales, Ken Skates, alongside Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning, Rebecca Evans, and Irish Government Minister of State for International & Road Transport, Logistics, Rail & Ports, Seán Canney.

New Irish Sea taskforce holds first meeting with Irish and Welsh ministers

UUP MLA Steve Aiken.

Lord Murphy's Windsor Framework review is a ‘near impossible task’ - Steve Aiken

The 'establishment', including virtually every politician in NI, never tackles the blatant squandering of scarce cash and resources, writes G Murphy

Letter: Questions to be asked over drain of cash

President Trump meets with the DUP MLA and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and her DUP colleague, the Communities minister Gordon Lyons, at Capitol Hill, Washington DC, for the St Patrick's Day lunch on Wednesday March 12. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Owen Polley: Let's hope unionists raised the Irish Sea border while with Trump

US President Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer hold a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington DC. The Prime Minister has resisted calls for the UK to immediately hit back at US tariffs on British goods. Photo: Carl Court/PA Wire

Economist questions logic of Mike Nesbitt's Trump trade deal comments

TUV leader Jim Allister. His party has submitted evidence to the NIAC inquiry into the Windsor Framework. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

TUV slam UK Internal market rebrand as an ‘attempt to mislead’

A Westminster committee is probing issues around the Windsor Framework.

Logistics UK chief Nichola Mallon says Windsor Framework 'oversold'

Neil Johnston from the NI Retail Consortium says companies like Tesco have track and trace technology and should be trusted – and not have to fill in vast amounts of paperwork to move goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland .Photo: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

'We're not Del Boy and Rodney' - supermarket body slams Irish Sea border checks

US president Donald Trump’s suggested use of tariffs has caused concern in many nations. Tariffs are taxes charged on goods imported from other countries. The companies that bring the goods into the country pay the tax to the government

Letter: Unionism should mimic resolve of Canadians

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch addressing the Northern Ireland Tory conference in Belfast. She left them in a conundrum

Owen Polley: Badenoch's misleading statement on Windsor Framework has two flaws

DUP leader Gavin Robinson. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Unionist parties raise priorities ahead of Keir Starmer's summit with Irish PM

The first meeting of Intertrade UK took place in Enniskillen last Friday.

Intertrade UK is still to be given a budget - and will be staffed by the NIO

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has made clear her party's commitment to the Irish Sea border trade arrangements, in an interview with the News Letter. Photo: House of Commons/PA Wire

Tories won't 'unpick' the Windsor Framework, Kemi Badenoch tells News Letter

Lifeboat crew back at Portaferry Station after the first call out of 2025 (L-R) Mollie Crowe, George Toma, helm Paul Mageean and Scott Blackwood

Portaferry RNLI called to save 12 stranded sheep on rocks

Morning View

Editorial: Intertrade UK is a welcome development for NI businesses

HomesNI Hotlist

NI’s fastest growing property portal highlights five of exclusive homes

Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee will head up Intertrade UK.

Hilary Benn: Intertrade UK body will ‘protect internal market'

DUP MP Sammy Wilson has questioned how long it will be before checks on NI to GB goods are expanded. The government has promised "unfettered access" to the Great Britain market for Northern Ireland businesses.

Wilson: Dual standards are being applied to Irish Sea border arrangements

The UK government has introduced checks on certain goods from Northern Ireland entering ports in Great Britain. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is pictured here during a visit to the Port of Holyhead, ahead of the general election. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Allister says new checks on NI-GB 'exports' show a hard border isn't necessary

A green/red lane system for the movement of goods are among measures brought in under the Windsor Framework. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

‘Unmitigated disaster’ - small businesses slam Windsor Framework

Today will see rain across all parts of NI in the morning, heavy at times, and very windy with southerly gales, severe near the east coast, but easing a little in the afternoon

NI weather: yellow warning for wind with possible gusts of 70mph along coastline

Rain and wind are expected today

Met Office map shows where 70mph winds could hit UK

Trade diversion has been a consequence of Irish Sea border bureaucracy, the TUV leader says.

Allister: 'Red lines crossed' on trade diversion - UK must trigger Article 16

Lord Dodds of Duncairn says the UK must take a tougher approach with Brussels.

Five ongoing EU legal cases against UK over Irish Sea border implementation

Belfast City Council recently took the decision not to support the Armed Forces Covenant

Letter: Unionists in dilemma at next election

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