MLAs

The celebration of Northern Ireland Olympians will take place at the SSE Arena, but there is no date for it yet

At last! A plan to celebrate the Olympic athletes from Northern Ireland

Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole has criticised 'meaningless' Executive motions. Motions this year have included an Alliance Enhancing Tree Protection motion, noting “the significance of trees as vital infrastructure" and another scoping Universal Basic Income.

Stormont opposition leader slams 'meaningless Assembly motions'

Stormont MLAs are renouncing their right to legislate in 300 areas of law, yet the 1998 agreement prohibits any change in the constitutional status of NI without the consent of the majority of its people

Dan Boucher: Removing Stormont's cross-community vote violates Belfast Agreement

From left, Michael Robson, Jack McMillan, Rhys McClenaghan and Rachel McCann during a homecoming celebration in Newtownards following the Olympic Games. An event has been confirmed for Belfast's SSE Arena to celebrate every athlete from Northern Ireland selected by Team Ireland or Team GB for Paris across the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. (Photo by Mark Marlow/PA Wire)

SSE Arena event to celebrate Northern Ireland's Olympic and Paralympic athletes

Letters to editor

Letter: As long as Boyne bridge remains, we will try to save it from demolition

Environment Minister Andrew Muir

Muir ‘continuing to engage’ over Northern Ireland’s first environment strategy

Raymond McCord

Victims campaigner loses legal challenge to Stormont's voting system

Blue-green algae on the River Bann where it meets Lough Neagh near the village of Toome. Picture date: Sunday September 1, 2024

Lough Neagh campaigners gather at Stormont on eve of Assembly return

Stephen Nolan this week on his radio show revealed that some Stormont employees are getting a pension contribution from the government, funded by taxpayers, of almost 35% of their salary

Ben Lowry: The cost of lavish public sector pensions in NI is a looming scandal

Claire Hanna is set to become next leader of SDLP

Claire Hanna set to become next leader of SDLP

The programme for government will set out the priorities for the devolved powersharing Executive for the remaining two-and-a-half years of the Assembly term.

Stormont ministers meet to consider programme for government

Mike Nesbitt has said he feels "very confident" that he has got the support of "the vast majority if not all" of the UUP's elected representatives. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Beattie resignation: 'Silence is complicity' says ex-UUP member

The EU argued that, regardless of the sensitivities of Northern Ireland’s history, and their apparent commitment to the Good Friday Agreement, the consent vote must take place on the basis of a simple majority

Dan Boucher: Forced majority vote ahead places NI’s future in jeopardy

Mike Nesbitt will inspire purpose and belief in the UUP again, writes Michael Palmer. He was the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 2012 to 2017 and has been a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Strangford since 2011

Letter: Mike Nesbitt is sure to win success for UUP

The UUP’s Mike Nesbitt pictured in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings, Stormont.Photo by Jonathan Porter /Press Eye

Butler endorses Nesbitt return as UUP leader

Morning View

Editorial: The populist SNP government has been forced into u-turns

News Letter editorial on Monday August 26 2024:

Editorial

East Antrim UUP MLA John Stewart is expected to run alongside Robbie Butler for the UUP leadership. Photo: Liam McBurney, PA

Robbie Butler and John Stewart in frame for UUP top jobs

Ulster Unionist Party Leader Doug Beattie. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Beattie quits as UUP boss after first offering resignation in July

The second demolished gate lodge

Historic listed buildings demolished at Co Down 'linen baron' estate

Morning View

Editorial: There are legitimate concerns about immigration levels

Morning View

Editorial: The recall of Stormont in summer has become an annual display by MLAs

Four-year-old Jaye from Belfast has complex needs and has been looking for a suitable school to start Primary One in the new term.

‘Incredible stress’ over finding Primary One place for Jaye

Morning View

Editorial: Health in NI would have been better run under direct rule

Lough Neagh is the UK and Ireland's largest freshwater lake

Minister Andrew Muir says Lough Neagh action plan must be signed off urgently

Morning View

Editorial: The worst polluters of Lough Neagh must be made to face heavy fines

Stormont bill for leaking roof

£2.4 million repair bill for leaking roof at Stormont

Morning View

Editorial: MLAs just seem to give into disputes, rather than challenge them

News Letter editorial on Tuesday June 25 2024:

Editorial

Bronagh Hinds at her family home in south Belfast, the co-founder, Northern Ireland Women's Coalition has been made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to peace and promoting women's rights. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

King's Birthday Honours: ‘Great privilege’ for women’s rights champion

Education Minister Paul Givan said an 'end to end' review of SEN provision was nearing its conclusion

'Entirely unacceptable' hundreds of SEN pupils still without school place

Robin McLoughlin, headmaster of Banbridge Academy, giving evidence to the Education Committee at Stormont. He said the education system in Northern Ireland 'will be bankrupt very, very soon'

Education system in Northern Ireland will be bankrupt very soon, principal warns

Mike Nesbitt faced his first question time as health minister

Mike Nesbitt rules out prospect of Northern Ireland hospital closures

Chief Superintendent Sam Donaldson expressed support for increasing fixed penalty notice fines

Punishments for driving offences ‘insufficient’, says senior police officer

The DUP office in Lisburn has had the names of two of its MLAs and ministers removed, with only Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's name remaining. Photo: Gary Mercer.

DUP MLAs' names taped over at Lisburn HQ

Paul Givan, Jonathan Buckley, Gavin Robinson and Emma Little-Pengelly at DUP headquarters. Photo by Jonathan Porter /Press Eye

DUP deputy leader contest to be held after election

First Minister of Northern Ireland Michelle O'Neill

Election makes publishing a programme for government difficult says O'Neill

William Irvine of the UFU

‘Deep concern’ around obtaining veterinary medicines as Assembly motion passed

The Sinn Fein motion at Stormont called for legislation to amend the Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 to provide for no fault divorce. Only one MLA was against the plan, Jim Allister

Samuel Morrison: Moves to further devalue marriage is concerning

Gavin Robinson faces his first electoral test less than two months into his leadership of the DUP. Photo: Jonathan McCambridge/PA Wire

EU law back on DUP's agenda as election called

More than 4,400 applications for redress had been received by the end of last month and, of those, only 64 remained to be considered at that point

More than 4,400 claims for historical abuse redress received, MLAs hear

One local carer told Carers NI that they’re afraid they’ll lose their home after going over the earnings cap by just a few pounds per week and receiving a demand to pay back over £4,000.

Carer’s Allowance overpayments

Morning View

Editorial: More strikes in NI, yet MLAs rarely say a word against such action

Alliance MLA Danny Donnelly attempted to blame Brexit for the continued application of EU law in Northern Ireland.

Alliance attempts to blame Brexit for EU law

Alliance leader Naomi Long. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker

NI justice system will slow down due to budget allocation: Naomi Long

John O’Dowd met senior PSNI officers in Belfast on Wednesday following the recent deaths of two teenagers on the A5 in Co Tyrone

Minister raises concern over number of road deaths in Northern Ireland

Image released by Greenpeace UK of a waste dump at Karahan Kuyumcular, a village in the district of Seyhan, Adana Province, seen during an investigation into plastic waste that is dumped and burned in Turkey. New EU regulations which will apply in Northern Ireland will seek to prevent such dumping. Photo: Caner Guevera/Greenpeace/PA Wire

NI sends 1m tonnes of waste overseas annually

Morning View

Editorial: A new twist in Stormont's stupid free hospital parking policy

It is an “indisputable matter of fact” that initial funding for health was increased in the budget agreed by the Stormont power-sharing Executive, MLAs have been told.

‘Indisputable matter of fact’ that health funding increased in budget

The funeral of IRA leader Bobby Storey in 2020. Photo: Pacemaker Press

Ministers at Storey funeral damaged relations - and key minutes are now missing

The flags of the UK and EU

EU pet food rules: DUP does not respond to claim of a split in the party

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons told the Assembly that the impact of capacity restrictions on water and sewage infrastructure is a "significant one"

Residents paying for septic tanks due to severe pressure on NI Water: Beattie

The Alliance benches laughing at Jonathan Buckley, DUP MLA

Alliance remarks about DUP and far right 'are defamatory'

Cathal Geoghegan, President, Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NI Chamber)

View: From Economic Vision to economic reality

Surgeons in an operating theatre. Photo: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

Scale of hospital waiting lists leading to more harm for patients, MLAs told

Stormont

Stormont committee set up to examine the impact of new EU laws in NI “impotent”

DUP Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has questioned the cost of an SDLP motion to scrap the Universal Credit 'two child limit'

DUP minister highlights cost of SDLP motion