Nigel Dodds

Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald celebrates after being elected on the third count at the election count centre at the RDS in Dublin. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Myth of the inevitable rise of Sinn Fein has been exposed, says Lord Dodds

Lord Dodds has asked why Sinn Fein aren't "mock sledgehammering" walls over border checks introduced by Dublin to control immigration. Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O'Neill are seen here in 2019 knocking down a fake brick wall as part of a protest against a "hard border" in Ireland during Brexit negotiations. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Archive/PA Images

Donegal border checks show Ireland's 'hypocrisy on stilts' - Dodds

Journalist Ken Reid has died at the age of 69 after an illness. His funeral details have now been announced.

Tributes continute to Ken Reid as funeral details confirmed

Lord Dodds of Duncairn says Northern Ireland’s place within the United Kingdom must be fully restored.

Lord Dodds: democratic deficit caused by the Tories is untenable

The former H Block Maze prison at Long Kesh near Lisburn. The idea that it should be turned into a visitor attraction seems to have returned to the political agenda. Picture Niall Carson/PA Wire

Owen Polley: Maze prison is a reminder of terror and should be ground into dirt

Morning View

Editorial: Sinn Fein approach to past doesn’t bode well for the Maze

The former H Block Maze prison at Long Kesh near Lisburn Northern Ireland. A museum at the site has been a long term goal of republicans. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Timeline of the Maze redevelopment saga

Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart at Scarva with DUP colleagues. Photo: Mark Baxter/Facebook

Unionist MPs among large crowds in Scarva for annual parade and sham fight

The then-DUP leader and deputy leader sold the deal to restore Stormont differently in those crucial days between its announcement and the restoration of devolution.

What did the DUP leadership say about the Irish Sea border?

Government legislation to discourage migrants making dangerous channel crossings won't apply in Northern Ireland because of the Windsor Framework, a court has ruled. Pictured are a group of people thought to be migrants including young children are brought in to Dover, Kent, from a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the English Channel last week. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Rwanda ruling: Windsor Framework has to go, insists DUP's Sammy Wilson

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is now stepping down

Dodds on Varadkar's 'disastrous' legacy: 'He tried to dismember the UK'

DUP Lord Dodds of Duncairn has again challenged the government over its claims in the deal it struck with his party - saying one has been "blown out of the water".

Lord Dodds says government claim in DUP deal 'blown out of the water'

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and DUP leader Sir Jeffery Donaldson at Hillsborough Castle hold the agreement, called ‘Safeguarding the Union’ on January 31. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

DUP peer: EU not UK govern key NI policies

Lord Dodds (standing) addressing the House of Lords

Lord Dodds rubbishes assurances from the government on NI's place in the Union

The House of Lords will tonight discuss a Humble Address to the King, part of the Safeguarding the Union deal.

DUP peers to speak on Humble Address

The House of Lords will tonight discuss a Humble Address to the King, part of the Safeguarding the Union deal.

DUP peers to speak on Humble Address
DUP Lords including Nigel Dodds, Maurice Morrow and Willie Hay will speak tonight on the government’s Humble Address to King Charles – after a number of the party’s MPs used last night’s debate in the Commons to highlight ongoing problems with the Irish Sea border.
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DUP peer Lord Dodds has said the government had no choice in whether or not it could introduce animal welfare legislation in NI - and it should be open and transparent that it cannot do that because of the Windsor Framework.

‘We are not sovereign’ – DUP's Dodds

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and NI Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris with copies of the ‘Safeguarding the Union’ document. The deal - which restored Stormont - has faced opposition within sections of the DUP.

DUP chairman claims public are being 'treated as fools'

Lord Dodds making his address in the Lords late on Monday night

Nigel Dodds: Protocol could see NI drift apart from GB on immigration

Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly

DUP leadership sidesteps criticism from three senior party officers

DUP Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly strongly defended her party's decision to go back into government after it was criticised in an essay by senior party figures Lord Nigel Dodds, Lord Maurce Morrow and Sammy Wilson MP. Photo: BBC NI Sunday Politics.

DUP sidesteps criticism from party figures who say Sea Border remains

The former DUP deputy leader Lord (Nigel) Dodds and Lord Morrow the DUP party chair. They say: "It is obvious that the battle on the Irish Sea border is not over." Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

DUP officers defiant: 'there is still a border in the Irish Sea'

The DUP has, to give it its due, at Westminster pointed out repeatedly problems with the protocol and framework

Owen Polley: Worst scenario for unionism is DUP claims a bad deal as a victory

Children and parents make their way to the Catholic Holy Cross School, in the Prostestant area of Ardoyne in Belfast as loyalists make a silent protest on the other side of the Royal Ulster Constabulary vehicles.

Holy Cross school protest was sign of 'deeper malaise' in Northern Ireland

Photo posted online by UNRWA of destruction in Gaza, November 10, 2023

Nigel Dodds criticises motion from Sinn Fein that laments Israeli bombs

The prime minister Rishi Sunak, centre, and the Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, on Tuesday meet Northern Ireland Tories at the Heathrow Lounge in the Manchester Convention Centre for a reception by the NI Conservatives at the annual Tory conference. Pic by Ben Lowry

Ben Lowry: NI was barely on radar at the Tory party conference in Manchester

Lord Dodds, who is DUP leader in the Lords, says the report by peers into the Windsor Framework shows that it "utterly" fails the party's seven tests. While the party already said in its council manifesto that it failed the tests, he is now saying so with particular emphasis. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Dodds: New report shows that Windsor Framework 'utterly fails' DUP seven tests
A new report on the details of the Windsor Framework shows that it fails the DUP’s seven tests to restore Stormont “utterly”, Lord Dodds has said.
Owen Polley

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris. Brian Lawless PA/Wire

Stormont boycott the 'only leverage' unionists have to resist Framework: TUV

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP.

'People are proud of Northern Ireland' leader tells DUP members

UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Vice-President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic at the Foreign Office in London yesterday after they formally adopted the Windsor Framework. Ben Lowry writes: "Regardless of the various factors that have brought us to disaster, I still think that unionists cannot accept such an internal frontier" (Photo by Niklas HALLE'N / European Commission / AFP via Getty Images)

Ben Lowry: It has been a winding and complex route to defeat for unionists

The Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie, second from right, stood with Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP), Billy Hutchinson (Progressive Unionist Party), and Jim Allister (TUV) at Stormont in a 2021 Ulster Day joint unionist pledge against the NI Protocol. Now he sees ‘opportunities’ in the Windsor Framework, but there is none in an entrenched Irish Sea border. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Kate Hoey: I urge Doug Beattie to stand with us again to demand NI fully in UK

Morning View

Editorial: Windsor Framework has already lost its shine, yet has been finalised

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris at Hillsborough Castle after meeting Stormont leaders over the Windsor Framework on Thursday. Lord Dodds says of him: "Overblown and windy statements are quickly followed by the sound of hot air disappearing from the punctured balloon". Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Nigel Dodds: It turns out the Stormont brake mechanism is unworkable

DUP peer Nigel Dodds has asked for an apology from the Northern Ireland Secretary

'Gross misrepresentation about the Government’s protocol deal is exposed'

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson told the News Letter last night that the panel’s role is to consult

DUP 'very eager' to hear views on Protocol deal as MP casts doubt on it

Ian Paisley

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

Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, leaves 10, Downing Street

Rishi Sunak in NI amid growing speculation that Protocol deal done

The House of Lords Select Committee on the NI Protocol continues to delve into the issue of medicine supplies to Northern Ireland being restricted as a result of the protocol.
Despite changes the EU has made, everyone should be concerned at the threat to our medicine supply

Nigel Dodds: Medicine supply to NI faces a cliff-edge, due to the protocol

Lord Dodds

Nigel Dodds says 'tinkering with Protocol checks won’t do'

Lord Dodds speaking in the House of Lords on 11-10-22

'We don't like idea of SF FM but will accept it so long as Protocol is sorted'

Letter to the editor

Unless sovereignty restored there can’t be sustainable basis for Stormont return

Lord Dodds has accused US Congress leaders trusted by President Joe Biden (above) of “siding with nationalists against the unionist community”

Nigel Dodds expresses concern at the ‘partisan’ approach of US administration

Counting in last week’s Stormont election at Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast. A fractured unionist vote and a failure transfer to all pro-Union candidates saw three unionist seats lost, writes Lord Dodds

Nigel Dodds: Reg Empey attacks other unionists when voters want united approach

Urban north Belfast spreads out beneath Cave Hill

Election 2022: Unionism’s vote share has ebbed away in North Belfast for years

It is surprising how many voters do not vote down the ballot paper, writes Ben Lowry: "I have reported on election results in which the last seat was decided by a few votes"

Ben Lowry: For maximum say in PR elections, vote right down the ballot paper

Diane Forsythe on the campaign trail yesterday with former MP Nigel Dodds (left), DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (second right) and party supporters

Diane Forsythe rejects Jim Wells’ claim she hasn’t got experience to be MLA

DUP's Christopher Stalford left Twitter after abuse

DUP man quit Twitter after ‘constant abuse’

Former Economy Minister Diane Dodds was the victim of 'vile' abuse on Twitter

Troll who sent vile message to Diane Dodds no longer on Twitter

News Letter editorial

Identifying extreme web abuse is easy, tackling it is harder

Lord Dodds.
Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

'Crucial NI Protocol decision must have cross-community consent'

A loyalist protest in east Belfast against the NI Protocol. Photo: Declan Roughan / Press Eye

‘Constitutional integrity of UK essential save NI Assembly’ Lords hear

Boris Johnson has been highly critical of the Northern Ireland Protocol yet he did not mention it in his keynote conference speech at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, above

Ben Lowry: Echoes of 2019, as Boris Johnson fails to cite his unionism in speech

Letter to the editor

DUP roll out their aristocracy ahead of an election to get us to vote for them

Letter to the editor

Boris not to be trusted? Finally the penny drops!

Lord Dodds of Duncairn

Breaking pension promise ‘further proof Boris Johnson pledges are worthless'

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