Michael Long

St Patrick's Day festivities in Belfast city centre. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

Concern over St Patrick's Day in Belfast with funding described as too low

Church Road in Castlereagh was closed following the discovery of a suspicious object at playing fields in the area, which are used by East Belfast GAA. Pic: Pacemaker

Calls for an end to attacks on East Belfast GAA club

Naomi Long, pictured surrounded by her MLAs at Stormont; she has been quizzed online about how to define "woman"

Transgenderism: Alliance leader Naomi Long declines to answer 'what is a woman?'

Letters to editor

Letter: Reminding republicans of the callous murder of political representatives

Belfast Lord Mayor Tina Black (4th left) and Joe Murphy carrying a cross, taking part in Worship Between the Gates, part of the Human Peace Wall by the New Life City Church on Northumberland Street in Belfast, between the Shankill and the Falls Road

Shankill and Falls Road communities unite to form human chain at peace wall

Sinn Féin accused Alliance at last week’s full meeting of Belfast City Council of “slowing down” the Irish language along with the DUP

Bitter exchanges in Belfast City Council over Irish street signs

Work on the pedestrian crossing on the Upper Knockbreda carriageway near Cregagh Glen, is due to begin in the new year

Construction of the crossing will begin in the new year

Baroness May Blood

Call for May Blood statue to be erected at Belfast City Hall

Letter to the editor

Belfast was right to open a book of condolence for Shireen Abu Akleh

Tina Black, the new Lord Mayor of Belfast

New Sinn Fein Lord Mayor wants to celebrate diversity of Belfast

Chris McCracken, managing director LQ BID, Michael Long Lord Mayor of Belfast, Emma McClay, marketing manager at Linen House and Patrick Anderson, Department of Communities

Public realm reimagined as shared space at Linen Quarter

Michael Long, the new Lord Mayor of Belfast

New Alliance Lord Mayor of Belfast makes no portrait pledge to ratepayers

Michael Long moments after adopting the chain of office

Alliance’s Michael Long speaks his first words as Belfast Lord Mayor in Irish

Alliance Party councillor Michael Long, who has been installed as the new Lord Mayor of Belfast.

Michael Long installed as lord mayor of Belfast – for three weeks

Letter to the editor

Alliance councillor comes across as condescending

Letter to the editor

Unionists can be forgiven for thinking Alliance is a nationalist party
A letter from John Mulholland:

Councillor Michael Long.
Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Alliance councillor’s apology over ‘Bloody Friday’ tweet

Letter to the editor

My party is neither pro nor anti-Union: we are just ‘Alliance’

Letters to Editor

What upsets Alliance is unionists showing unity

Letter to the editor

Ruth Dudley Edwards has accidentally promoted Long from ‘High Priest’ to MLA

People to be banished to a desert island:

From bottom left, heading right, the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Michelle O’Neill, President Emmanuel Macron of France, beneath him Ian Paisley MP, libel lawyer Paul Tweed, Meghan clutching Harry, President Joe Biden, top, Gerry Adams, then beneath him President Michael D Higgins, PSNI chief constable Simom Byrne, then President Justin Trudeau of Canada, top, Alliance councillor Michael Long, above him and slightly to the right Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney, First Minister Paul Givan, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Other people despatched to the island, but not illustrated, include Carrie Johnson, Martina Anderson, Wales’s First Minister, Mark Drakeford and
New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Arden

Ruth Dudley Edwards: My list of people from 2021 to banish to a desert island

An Ulster Rugby spokesperson said they are disappointed that a number of spectators continue to park illegally

East Belfast residents raise Kingspan parking woes, Ulster Rugby trying to addre...

Ruth Dudley Edwards, the author and commentator, who writes a column for the News Letter every Tuesday. She is author of 'The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions' and her most recent book is 'The Seven: the lives and legacies of the founding fathers of the Irish republic'

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Sneering Alliance leaves an open goal for Doug Beattie

Jamie Bryson was mocked for delivering a speech against the Irish Sea border from atop a blue wheelie bin outside the PSNI station in Newtownards last month. Photograph by Declan Roughan / Press Eye

We should not sneer at loyalists as Britain disengages from Northern Ireland

Justice Minister Naomi Long wants to see more progressive politics predominate in Northern Ireland

Naomi Long: I can't stand bullies and I can't stand sectarianism

Letter to the editor

Republican hijack of Irish language caused Presbyterians to withdrew from it

Letter to the editor

Unhelpful News Letter editorial on Irish language promotes division
A letter from Councillor Michael Long:

Belfast councillors clashed over the regeneration fund

Council row erupts over ‘sectarian carve up’ of city

Google image of the Royal Victoria Hospital

DUP man says he would oppose Irish language signs at Royal Victoria Hospital

The damage around St Anne's Cathedral in the northern end of Belfast city centre after a German bombing raid in 1941

Belfast Blitz memorial drawing nearer to reality – but not in time for the 80th ...

A resident took this picture of teenagers sitting high up on an electricity pylon

Partying teens ‘were swinging off power pylon’

City Hall lit up to mark the anniversary of the Polish Solidarity movement

Belfast buildings lit up red for Polish Solidarity movement

A Sinn Fein banner erected on a park railing

Alliance calls for removal of Sinn Fein banners from city council property