Jim Allister

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

Jim Allister was criticised by Sinn Féin MLAs (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Jim Allister quizzed on call to 'sanitise' Garvaghy Road

NI Secretary in plea for MPs to ‘moderate language’

Carla Lockhart from the DUP outside Drumcree Parochial Hall in Portadown

DUP ‘will not abdicate responsibilities’ amid Drumcree dispute

First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald meet with locals on the Garvaghy Road.

DUP challenged to ensure consequences for ‘First Minister of lawlessness’

People attend a community event in support of the Garvaghy Road residents in the Drumcree parade dispute on Saturday afternoon

Drumcree standoff continues week after parade due to start

Gavin Robinson was speaking ahead of Sunday's planned Drumcree parade (Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press)

DUP chief hails unionist unity over Drumcree as something to build on

TUV MP Jim Allister during a press conference at Carleton Street Orange Hall in Portadown

TUV leader Jim Allister hails 'restoration of Portadown District's human rights'

The DUP delegation led by Gavin Robinson MP talk with Portadown Orangement after meeting the Parades Commission on Wednesday 23 September 2026.

Unionists agree plain reading of law should see Orangemen walk Garvaghy Road

Administrators have been appointed to Glens of Antrim Potatoes Ltd, which employed 95 staff across sites in Cushendall and Ballymena.

Collapse of Glens of Antrim Potatoes Ltd causes redundancies & farming blow

TUV leader Jim Allister

TUV leader said he has not been approached over unionist co-operation

Unionists will not tolerate “egos” scuppering the “huge opportunity” that is next year’s Stormont Assembly election, DUP leader Gavin Robinson has said.

Unionists will not tolerate egos scuppering 2027 election opportunity – Robinson

A House of Lords committee sat in Stormont in Thursday hearing concerns about Protocol human rights provisions.

Former Stormont leaders return quiz successors on Protocol issues

A print of Sir Winston Churchill is one of the items which NI customers can't buy from Parliament's online shop, due to EU rules. Pic: Screengrab from UK Parliament shop.

EU rules halt UK Parliament selling gifts to Northern Ireland customers
Dozens of items sold online by the Houses of Parliament cannot be sent to Northern Ireland due to EU rules imposed under the Irish Sea border arrangements – serving as a “powerful and distressing metaphor” for the undermining of the UK, Jim Allister has said.
David Thompson

TUV leader Jim Allister. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Government's fresh 'unfettered access' claim rejected by Jim Allister

Unfettered access from NI to GB trade was promised in the Safeguarding the Union deal.

NI medical products branded imports by government - Allister

Gerard Lawlor said Stephen Walker was 'a hugely passionate Ballymena United supporter' - seen here, left, in the team colours.

Stephen was ‘brilliant without needing you to notice’ says journalist

TUV MP Jim Allister during a press conference at Carleton Street Orange Hall in Portadown, Co Armagh, announcing their next steps in relation to the Drumcree parade. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Drumcree was never 'settled' - whatever Nationalism said - Allister

Martina Anderson recently published her autobiography, and is to sign copies in Kilrea (photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Criticism of using publicly-owned building to promote ex-IRA bomb convict's book

Steve Aiken was reacting to the Prime Minister's comments on the Windsor Framework

Windsor Framework is a 'nightmare' and Prime Minister is 'engaged in spin'

Jim Allister has said that the commission is now 'irretreivable'

Burrows and Allister say Parades Commission board must be sacked

The Parades Commission was criticised by a judge for its determination on an Orange Order parade from Drumcree Church in Portadown

Secretary of State must now fire the Parades Commission board says DUP while TU...

A decision by the Parades Commission to impose restrictions on one of the most contentious parades in Northern Ireland has been quashed in the High Court. It follows a legal challenge brought by a member of the Orange Order over its annual parade at Drumcree outside Portadown. The commission had banned this year's parade from entering the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road - a move which reflected every decision it has made since 1998. It has been claimed the case may pave the way for a future parade on the road being permitted. However, it would require a new decision based on a fresh application.

Parades Commission 'has been caught out and should now bow out' - MP

The Jesters pose for a photo during the Ballymena 400 celebrations in the town on Tuesday 25 August 2026.

Commons recognises Ballymena reaching 400 while town celebrates

Image from the Kells Sons of William Facebook page of William Young, who has died following a band parade in Rasharkin

Funeral details released for 'valued bandsman' William 'Booey' Young
Funeral details have been released for a “valued bandsman” who died after a parade in Co Antrim.
Adam Kula

A row over the future of Causeway hospital has already resulted in the resignation of Mike Nesbitt as health minister. Image: Google

Jim Allister slams 'orchestrated campaign' against Causeway hospital

Jon Burrows backed calls to save emergency services in Coleraine at a meeting organised by the SoS Causeway Hospital group. Pic Facebook

UUP urged to clarify Causeway Hospital stance after Burrows comments

Both the TUV and UUP have demanded Daera minister Andrew Muir resign.

Muir must go, say UUP and TUV: 'Farmers no longer trust their minister'

Police Ombudsman Jacqui Durkin has written an open letter to BBC journalist Stephen Nolan. Pics: Police Ombudsman & BBC.

Ombudsman repeats view that complainants should be 'believed' in Nolan letter

Jacqui Durkin is the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, holding police officers to account for their actions.

Police Ombudsman 'blunder' over saying office 'believe' complaints

TUV leader Jim Allister says Rasharkin must not be surrendered to lawless elements

Rasharkin must not be surrendered to lawless elements: Jim Allister

TUV leader Jim Allister has accused Daera minister Andrew Muir of "obfuscation and distraction" over a cattle cull. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Minister 'plain wrong' to suggest animals were to be euthanised - MP

Kneecap's DJ Provai, aka 38-year-old James John O'Dochartaigh, performing on the West Holts Stage during the Glastonbury Festival last year. Photo: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

DUP call over Kneecap and Bob Vylan gig in Falls Park

Sir Chris Bryant leaves Downing Street on Monday night after his appointment

Burnham slaps down nationalist demands

Sir Chris Bryant leaving number 10 Downing Street, after becoming NI Secretary. Pic: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Bryant wants a 'strong Northern Ireland in a strong United Kingdom'

New Prime Minister Andy Burnham ahead of making a speech outside 10 Downing Street, London, on Monday. Pic: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Burnham tells UK's nationalists he's not interested in constitutional change

Ann Widdecombe on a visit to Dromore, County Down, in 2024. The Reform UK politician was at an anti-Protocol rally.

Shock in Northern Ireland over Ann Widdecombe killing

Jeffrey Donaldson arriving at Newry Crown Court during his court case last month. He is awaiting sentence

Ministers asked for more details on MoD payments to Donaldson for ‘peace work’

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn was not in office until after Jeffrey Donaldson was charged. Pic: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Northern Ireland Office says there's 'no evidence' it was told about Donaldson

Jim Allister has questioned how Jeffrey Donaldson became the DUP's 'pin-up boy' despite claims about his conduct.

How did such a man become the leader and 'pin-up boy' of the DUP? - Allister

The North West 200 last month; the event is getting £65,000 to attract global attention yet TourismNI has referred to it as happening in ‘the North’

Tourism funding 'must be used to promote Northern Ireland and not the North'

Jeffrey Donaldson lied to his own voters about the Irish Sea border, and the bulk of his party went along with it. Pic: Colm Lenaghan /Pacemaker

Analysis: Donaldson needed no pressure to tell his biggest political lie of all

Jeffrey Donaldson arriving at Newry Crown Court on Monday June 22, his last day of freedom. Later that day, he was was convicted of 18 sex offences, including one count of rape – against two women when they were children. Pic Liam McBurney/PA

Ben Lowry: Donaldson’s religious language was turned against him in sex trial

Jeffrey Donaldson sent Jamie Bryson to represent DUP views to EU officials at a secret Dublin meeting. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Jeffrey Donaldson sent Jamie Bryson to represent DUP views to EU officials

TUV leader Jim Allister. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

'Distasteful nonsense' - Government hits out at TUV Donaldson comments

Stormont's Speaker Edwin Poots.

Edwin Poots says he found Jeffrey Donaldson out on lies 'many times'

The DUP said its thoughts were with the innocent victims whose lives have been impacted and blighted by former leader Jeffrey Donaldson's "predatory and repugnant behaviour". Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Victims' courage praised after conviction of 'reprehensible' Jeffrey Donaldson

Jeffrey Donaldson was awarded a knighthood in 2016, but said he would "always be plain Jeffrey to my friends and to the people that I represent". Photo: Press Eye.

Unionist leaders' calls to strip paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson of knighthood

The aftermath of arson at a house on the Shore Road, not far from Seaview, on Thursday night, which is being treated as 'hate-motivated' by police

DUP leader: 'We need a collective British Isles approach to immigration'

Hilary Benn was pressed over an exchange with Jim Allister this week (Stephen Davison/Pacemaker Press)

Hilary Benn pressed over reaction to 'alien culture' beheading remark

Police at the scene of Monday's knife attack off Belfast's Antrim Road yesterday

Dismissing TUV 'alien culture' remark 'out of order' - England's first Muslim MP

Screen grab of DUP leader Gavin Robinson speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London on Wednesday

DUP leader calls for Northern Ireland and Republic’s ‘open border’ to close

Image taken from an online video showing a man who has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the knife attack in north Belfast

Belfast knife attack: MP warns about 'folly' of open Irish border

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