Jim Shannon

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

Strangford MP Jim Shannon at the Newtownards demonstration with local independent councillor Steven Irvine. Photo: Pacemaker

It is time to respond to the coalition forming against unionism: Jim Shannon

Strangford MP Jim Shannon. Photo: Jonathan Porter / Press Eye

It is time to respond to the coalition forming against unionism: Jim Shannon

DUP MLA Phillip Brett was speaking to the BBC's Mark Carruthers

DUP’s ‘political obituary written before’ and it came back - Brett

Jim Shannon makes his acceptance speech after retaining his Strangford seat Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Strangford: Unionism loses when it is divided, warns Jim Shannon

Former General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Pat Cullen, outside the High Court in central London in April 2023 in support of nurses bringing a challenge over planned strike action by the RCN in a long-running dispute with the government over pay. Ms Cullen is now the Sinn Fein candidate in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the upcoming general election. If elected, Ms Cullen won't take her seat, in line with republican tradition. Picture: James Manning/PA Archive/PA Images

DUP: Royal College of Nursing needs to address Cullen questions

Almog Meir Jan, 22, kidnapped from Israel in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, raises his hands after arriving by helicopter to the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel

DUP's Jim Shannon hails the rescue of four Israeli hostages inside Gaza

Former UKIP NI leader David McNarry has backed the DUP's Jim Shannon

Ex-UUP MLA David McNarry throws weight behind DUP Strangford hopeful Jim Shannon

Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Michael McBride receiving his Covid-19 vaccination in 2022.

Calls for Covid inquiry to probe Bobby Storey funeral in Belfast

TUV councillor Ron McDowell

Jarlath Burns' comments on Casement Park funding 'scandalous': TUV councillor

In the latest phase of the Casement park re-development, engineers begin to dismantle the existing floodlights - 17 April 2024. Photo: Pacemaker

UK should pay for Casement Park as a goodwill gesture: Jarlath Burns

Jim Shannon in the Commons, April 16, 2024

DUP MP Jim Shannon clarifies his stance on smoking ban

WASPI women have fought a long and difficult campaign. The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report highlights the urgent need for fair and prompt compensation, writes Jim Shannon

Letter: We must see action now for WASPI women

DUP MP Sammy Wilson

Northern Ireland ‘weak spot’ for migration if Rwanda plan does not apply – MP
Northern Ireland will become a "weak spot" in the UK's migration policy if the Rwanda Bill does not apply in the region, a DUP MP has said.
By Claudia Savage and Rhiannon James, PA Political Staff

Casement Park in Belfast. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

No comment on whether GAA should pay more for Casement

TUV leader Jim Allister. Photo: Pacemaker

Suggestion that GAA can't find more than £15m for Casement 'laughable'

NI Secretary says Northern Ireland is '100%' as British as London

As MPs debated the Bill, Mr Wilson said the objective of creating a deterrent for migrants crossing the Channel in small boats was supported by the DUP

Rwanda Bill risks making Northern Ireland a magnet for migrants, DUP claims

People react as they hear the news of the release of 13 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Unionists welcome the release of hostages by Hamas

Tens of thousands of people demonstrate during a protest called by Foro Libertad y Alternativa (Freedom & Alternative forum) against an amnesty bill for people involved with Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid, in Madrid on November 18, 2023. Spain's Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez was sworn yesterday as prime minister for another term with the right vowing to keep up its protests against his decision to grant Catalan separatists an amnesty. (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO / AFP) (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO/AFP via Getty Images)

Huge rallies in Spain 'cannot be ignored' says Jim Shannon

Sammy Wilson in the Commons on November 14, 2023

MP says 'now is not the time for a ceasefire - it'd drag out the conflict'

Oil price dips in NI despite Mid East war (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Oil price dips in NI despite price pressure from war in Middle East

DUP MP Jim Shannon. Photo: Parliament TV

'This was truly Israel's 9\11' says DUP MP Jim Shannon

Footage circulates showing Palestinian protest at Irish language school

The man behind the bass drum in the black & white photograph is Alex Moore - the Great Grandfather of Cllr Jonny Jackson who proposed to form the band in 1923.

Flute Band which started in a remote townland has celebrated its centenary year
A rural flute band which grew out of determined hearts in a remote townland have now notched up 100 years in existence.
Gemma Murray

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Rt Hon Chris Heaton-Harris MP, pictured at Erskine House, Chichester Street, Belfast. Picture: Press Eye

No guarantees Troubles bill will secure new information for victims

Aghadowey Presbyterian church, Co Londonderry. Picture: Billy Maxwell

Billy Kennedy Churches: Need to protect religious freedom in the workplace

Michael Gove speaking during a press conference following a British-Irish Council (BIC) summit meeting in Jersey

DUP MP urges Michael Gove to 'wake up' to concerns of unionists around Protocol

Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O'Neill (left) and President Mary Lou McDonald at Belfast City Hall for the local election count. Divided unionism will return republican politicians. Photo Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Edward Cooke: A divided unionism cannot deliver for the unionist people of NI

Letters to editor

Letter: Drift away from unionist parties doesn’t say much for opinions of them

Pacemaker Press 12/01/23: DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson at Stormont Hotel in Belfast for talks with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar

Election 2023: DUP ups rhetoric on unionist unity as clock ticks down to poll

DUP MP Jim Shannon has accused NI Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris of trying to 'disarm and bully' his party through recent comments

DUP man tells Heaton-Harris: 'You need to pick your words much more carefully'

Jim Shannon, pictured speaking in the House of Commons

MP says 'American money is welcome in NI... but not in the form of a bribe'

Victims and survivors of the Troubles gather in Killough, Downpatrick, Co Down, to watch the sun rise to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Picture date: Friday April 7, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story ULSTER Agreement. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Poll shows increased support for Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK

The party later backed Alex Maskey as Stormont speaker over a unionist

Letter: DUP once backed anti 1998 deal pledge

Dolly Parton is surely one of the most successful and adored country music stars of our time. DUP MP Jim Shannon wants to make his love for the star known at Westminster with an early day motion (EDM) to mark the 50th anniversary since the release of her song I Will Always Love You, which was later recorded by Whitney Houston on the soundtrack to popular film The Bodyguard

DUP MP Jim Shannon makes his love of Dolly Parton known at Westminster

Jim Shannon in the House of Commons on Wednesday, March 22

Windsor Framework debate: Conservatives’ commitment to the Union questioned

Jim Shannon MP on GB News

Jim Shannon said there appears to be no legal basis for the ‘Stormont brake’

Ian Paisley

'We are not robots!' DUP figures play down notion of split

DUP MP Jim Shannon

Ailing health service is not beyond repair says DUP MP Jim Shannon

Rory McIlroy with the DP World Tour Championship trophy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images

Sports Personality of the Year 'laughable' after Rory McIlroy fails to make cut

Jim Shannon in the Commons

Veteran DUP MP says he wants party to merge with UUP to create single entity

A pro-Irish unity mural in west Belfast

Irish unity poll: MP wonders if ex-NI Secretary 'inhabits alternate universe'

Andrew Greer, James Taylor and Neil McKay from 1st Cookstown Boys Brigade proudly display their Queen's Badges

WATCH: Proud day for invited guests from groups with links to royal family

Homecoming queen: Mary Peters returns to Aldergrove airport after his gold medal win in Munich

NI people share their memories of Mary Peter's Olympic gold medal win

The cost of flights to London from Belfast have increased recently

Price of flights from Belfast to London soars

Chinese communist propaganda poster from 1971; by that stage Mao's Great Leap Forward (which collectivised farms) had resulted in scores of millions of deaths by starvation, violence and suicide. The poster appeared in the midst of his Cultural Revolution, where public vigilante attacks on 'counter-revolutionaries' were encouraged - including by children (who were called on to denounce and assault their teachers)

Netflix show on bloodthirsty tyrants 'sweeps China crimes under rug' says DUP MP

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel on April 19, 2022.

DUP MPs split over plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the £120m pilot scheme would 'save countless lives'

Rwanda plan slammed by parties in Northern Ireland

'Europe would be in dire straits now if we had listened to Sinn Fein on NATO'

Prime Minister Boris Johnson listens as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer responds to his statement to MPs in the House of Commons on the Sue Gray report. Picture date: Monday January 31, 2022.

NI MPs react to Sue Gray report and Boris apology

Strangford DUP MP Jim Shannon, who broke down speaking about the death of his mother-in-law alone during the pandemic, is a member of Newtownards Baptist church, plays a leading part with other MPs at Westminster on matters of the Christian faith

Billy Kennedy: Churches were closed due to Covid, but those in power partied

Jim Shannon becomes emotional in the House of Commons, Westminster, when asking an urgent question over the lockdown-busting Downing Street drinks party allegedly attended by Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie. Police are in contact with the Cabinet Office over claims that Martin Reynolds, a senior aide to the Prime Minister, organised a "bring your own booze" party in the garden behind No 10 during England's first lockdown in May 2020. Picture date: Tuesday January 11, 2022.

Jim Shannon: Tearful DUP MP explains 'what he wanted to say' in the Commons