Jim Shannon

Joseph Hobbs and Mark Glover were killed in a workplace accident on Friday. Photo: GoFundMe

Funeral details for tragic pair, as more than 600 donate to fundraiser

Wardens of Newtownards has scooped UK's Best Independent Department Store title at the Excellence in Housewares Awards. Pictured are some of the staff. Credit Facebook

'Incredible': 150-year-old NI department store crowned best in UK

DUP MP Jim Shannon

Assault case against MP Jim Shannon ongoing for three years, court hears

Nasvhille musician and Lisburn native Keith Getty, pictured here with wife Kristyn, says Dolly Parton was an inspiration to everyone in the famed US city.

Dolly: She was an inspiration to everyone in Nashville, says Keith Getty

Newtownards has been declared a closed catchment by NI Water, hampering house-building and attempts to bring vacant commercial lots back to life. Photo: Ards and North Down Council

Minister 'washing her hands' of sewer problem blocking homes and businesses

Last week our heritage was celebrated with joy and openness

Jim Shannon: Twelfth is a celebration of civil liberty

One of the many bands parading in seaside village Ballywalter for the 2026 Twelfth celebrations. Photo: Pacemaker Belfast

Twelfth: Ballywalter brings all the fun of the fair - at the seaside

Democratic Unionist Party MP Jim Shannon pointed to difficulties faced by family-owned trawlers

Scampi under threat unless visa rules on foreign trawler workers relaxed – MP

Jim Shannon MP (centre, seated) has been re-elected as worshipful master of the Houses of Parliament Orange Lodge. DUP leader Gavin Robinson (left, standing) is his deputy.

Strangford MP re-elected as head of parliament Orange Lodge

King Charles meets gymnast Rhys McClenaghan in Conway Square, Newtownards. Photo: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye.

Golden crown meets gold medal: King Charles greets Olympic hero Rhys McClenaghan

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pictured during his Monday speech in London, which was widely seen as a last-ditch effort to retain the support of his party. Today, multiple ministers have resigned from under him (James Manning/PA Wire)

Expected exit of PM 'offers a chance for Labour to drop its Troubles Bill'

The Royal Irish Regiment taking part in a 2018 ceremony at Belfast's Titanic Slipways. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Veterans group gets £500k boost to accommodation for homeless forces members

Jim Shannon speaking about China in the Westminster Hall debate

Belfast Chinese consulate official 'brainwashed' says DUP MP

A DUP politician has called on the public to support their local pub. Photo: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Support your local pub, calls DUP MP

The grooming gang inquiry has started unearthing evidence of British children being trafficked abroad

Letter: Important that victims and survivors know they’re not alone

Anti-abortion protesters marched from Portadown to Craigavon Area Hospital in September 2023. That same year saw a 28% rise in the number of terminations carried out in Northern Ireland. Photo: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

MP's call to tighten laws as number of abortions hits record high
An MP has called for abortion laws to be tightened, after the number of pregnancy terminations hit a record high.
Iain Gray

The Down Recorder's offices in Downpatrick. Image: Google

Closure of 189-year-old newspaper delivered to Westminster

Letters to editor

Jim Shannon: Political pressure led to vexatious Bloody Sunday trial of soldier

Heather Humphreys congratulates Catherine Connolly on becoming president at the election count in Dublin. Unionists noted that Ms Humphreys was the target of sectarianism. Pic: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Unionists say election of Connolly shows Ireland is 'cold house' for Protestants

Comber Second Presbyterian Church, where Jacqui Robinson worshipped. Photo: Albert Bridge

Co Down crash victim named

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons made an announcement about the Performance Programme of the Northern Ireland Football Fund earlier this month

Jim Shannon MP wants answers on Ards' unsuccessful NI Football Fund bid

People catch up with old friends in the glow of the bonfire

Jim Shannon: Bonfire history should be celebrated by everyone

Strangford MP Jim Shannon says the West must back Ukraine's proposals for peace in the ongoing war with Russia

Jim Shannon MP says it's important the West back Ukraine over war peace talks

Tallynagardy Wood in Co Down. Planners have approved a housing development over more than one-third of it.

Fears houses on protected wood will be 'thin end of wedge'

This satellite picture by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's underground nuclear enrichment site at Fordo after a U.S. airstrike targeted the facility Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

DUP, UUP and TUV defend USA's decision to bomb Iran's nuclear programme

Strangford MP Jim Shannon has commented on the escalation of conflict in the Middle East

Jim Shannon MP believes United States were right to bomb Iran's nuclear sites

Campaigners gather in Parliament Square as Labour MP Kim Leadbeater's Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill continued its way through the House of Commons Photo: James Manning/PA Wire

Assisted dying: More and more evidence against new law, says DUP MP
The evidence base against an Assisted Dying Bill is “growing”, DUP MP Jim Shannon has told the House of Commons, as a man given months to live urged MPs to vote against it.
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DUP MP Jim Shannon

Clarity needed on Labour’s winter fuel u-turn: Jim Shannon

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

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

Portaferry Road runs along the shore of Strangford Lough. Image: Google

Tributes to 'much-loved member of the Kircubbin community' after crash

DUP MP Jim Shannon has been sanctioned by Vladimir Putin

Jim Shannon 'can no longer moor his super yacht in Moscow' after Putin sanction

Lt Col Blair Mayne, pictured in Egypt in 1942.

Victoria Cross rules 'amazingly misread' over Blair Mayne, says SAS historian

SAS hero Lt Col Blair Mayne.

Hope for posthumous Blair Mayne VC award after Commons debate

Blair 'Paddy' Mayne in war uniform.

SAS hero Blair Mayne posthumous Victoria Cross bid hits Westminster

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

Scrabo Fold in Tower Court, Newtownards, was evacuated on Tuesday evening (25th) due to a fire. Photo: Pacemaker

Fatal fire: Newtownards lucky housing blaze didn't spread more, says MP

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office at the White House on February 28, 2025 in Washington, DC (photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

White House Zelensky-Trump press conference 'appalling'

US President Donald Trump during a press conference in the White House last week. Photo: Carl Court/PA Wire

DUP MP: Trump should show humility to back up claim of being appointed by God

The PPS has confirmed that there will be no prosecutions after "forged signatures" were allegedly used on nomination papers for a Sinn Féin election candidate

PPS confirm no prosecutions over 'forged signatures' of Sinn Fein candidate

DUP MP Jim Shannon regularly talks on a broad ranges of issues in the House of Commons, ranging from Strangford constituency matters to the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Local issues to global injustices, DUP MP tackles them all

Jack O'Connell as Paddy Mayne in the second series of the hit BBC series, SAS Rogue Heroes.

SAS Rogue Heroes: Fresh VC campaign for Paddy Mayne

PACEMAKER, BELFAST, 3/1/2025: A man walks his dog along a snow covered lane in the Sperrin Mountains today. More snow is forecast for the weekend. PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

Labour 'abandoned its conscience' over winter fuel payments as cold snap bites

The Israeli Embassy on Shelbourne Road in Dublin, which Israel has said it will close, accusing Ireland of "crossing every red line". Photo: Cillian Sherlock/PA Wire

Israel should open a consulate in Belfast after closing Irish embassy: DUP MP

A general view of the Ulster Farmers' Union rally about inheritance tax changes at the Eikon Exhibition Centre, Lisburn, Co Antrim last month. Photo: PA

UFU taking inheritance tax battle to Westminster decision makers

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council planning committee approve Dundonald developnent. Picture credit: Jessica Black

Former Rolls Royce site set for approval despite ‘green belt’ objection

Jim Shannon speaking during the debate

What Northern Ireland's MPs said about assisted dying in milestone debate

Carla Lockhart MP

MPs and peers unite against agri-farm tax proposals

London City Airport

‘Cheaper to fly to Australia’ – NI MPs raise issues on Belfast to London flights

General view of the scene after a double-decker school bus carrying more than 60 passengers has crashed in county Down.

‘Miracle’ that children were not killed or seriously hurt in bus crash

This picture taken from the West Bank city of Hebron shows projectiles above the Israeli city of Ashdod on October 1, 2024. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said a missile attack under way against Israel on October 1 was in response to the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week as well as that of the Hamas leader. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP) (Photo by HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images)

DUP MP describes 'dramatic' end to Zoom call as Iran strikes Israel

Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (pictured) at the New Ireland Commission event at the Playhouse, Londonderry

DUP MPs round on Leo Varadkar over united Ireland comments

Key woke warriors are gone such as the Scottish nationalist former first ministers Humza Yusaf and Nicola Sturgeon. Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Jeff Dudgeon: Enemies of free speech are felled but UK still going wrong way

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'

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

Former home secretary Suella Braverman is expected to be a contender in the race for the leadership of the Conservative Party

New Tory leader must strengthen party's relationship with unionism says DUP MP

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