Northern Ireland Executive

Taoiseach Simon Harris

Harris to chair meeting as North South Ministerial Council returns to Dublin

Northern Ireland Executive has given the green light to move forward with the Strule Shared Education Campus (image credit: Pixabay)

Major education campus in Northern Ireland moves forward

PACEMAKER, BELFAST, 17/7/2024: Algae in a bay on the shore of Lough Neagh at Loughview Road, Antrim today

'Full support' for blue-green algae action plan... but it remains stalled

Counting under way in the 2024 General Election. Picture: Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

West Tyrone MP Orflaith Begley makes A5 pledge after election victory

Striking union with members and supporters protesting at the gates of the Department of Education Northern Ireland at Rathgael House in Bangor in May. Workers from unions NIPSA, GMB and Unison had been engaging in industrial action over pay and grading. Photo: Liam McBurney

GMB education workers accept pay offer after strikes

Stormont's Infrastructure Minister has said he will be recommending that the planned upgrade of the A5 road should proceed

A5 upgrade would help save lives says Infrastructure Minister John O'Dowd

The majority of unionism has agreed on returning to Stormont. But now removing the Irish Sea border is in nobody’s in tray in London, writes R G McDowell

Letter: Unionism must abandon Brexit to overcome sea border

The Nipsa trade union is to ballot PSNI civilian staff on potential industrial action. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

School support staff in NI to vote on backdated pay rise and one-off lump sum

Up to 4,000 high quality jobs will be created in Northern Ireland as a direct result of Queen’s University’s £230 million programme of innovation across three innovation centres as part of the Belfast Region City Deal, with a funding commitment of £170m from the UK Government and Northern Ireland Executive.  Pictured are Dr Ryan Feeney, Queen’s vice-president, Strategic Engagement and External Affairs, Professor Stuart Elborn, Queen’s Provost and deputy vice-chancellor, Conor Murphy, Minister for the Economy, Kara Bailie, deputy director of Strategic Programmes at Queen’s, David Quinn, executive director, Belfast Region City Deal at Queen’s

Queen’s initiative will create 4,000 jobs in Northern Ireland

Tamasin Fraser, managing director of Omnipower Renewables, the Belfast-based business in the new partnership

NI firm unites with Australian company to develop long-duration energy storage

Cathal Geoghegan and Suzanne Wylie

NI Chamber President says goodbye and reflects on the year

Major ground work is underway at Casement Park in west Belfast. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Final report from UEFA following Belfast visit expected in June

A general view of Casement Park GAA stadium in Belfast

Government 'trying to figure out' Casement Park redevelopment: Heaton-Harris

More than 700 subpostmasters in the UK were prosecuted by the Post Office and handed criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015

Bill to exonerate Horizon scandal victims to be extended to Northern Ireland

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly pictured at the Ireland Funds 32nd National Gala event in the National Building Museum, Washington DC,

NI leaders took centre stage last night as they said 'we are open for business

Letters to editor

Letter: The government should only provide finance to IFA to host Euros matches
A letter from Morrison M Woods:
Letters

Over a decade ago there were proposals for a national multi-sports stadium on the Maze site outside Lisburn. The site is still largely undeveloped, writes David Campbell

Letter: Proposal for a stadium at Maze site should be revisited

Northern Ireland’s major capital projects portfolio will cost £2.45 billion more to complete than originally estimated, an Audit Office report has found

Northern Ireland capital projects costs soar by £2.45bn, Audit Office finds

The new Belfast Grand Central Station

Cost of capital projects in Northern Ireland soars by £2.45bn

Northern Ireland has seen a wave of strike action in the past few months. Head of the civil service Jayne Brady was seen at the picket lines in January

Letter: When will Jayne Brady be held accountable?

Sinn Fein's Caoimhe Archibald speaking to the media following a meeting with the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Jayne Brady, at Stormont Castle in Belfast. Picture date: Thursday August 17, 2023.

£3.3bn funding package: What’s on offer from the government

Jim Sammon, RICS NI Construction

NI construction workloads continue to fall, but at slowest rate in two years

Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association (NIFDA) has welcomed the recent Stormont developments adding ‘the best decision making we can have is through a functioning Northern Ireland Executive’. Pictured is executive director, Michael Bell OBE

NIFDA chief welcomes the recent Stormont developments

Deloitte’s annual State of the State survey reports on attitudes to government and public services. Pictured is Marie Doyle, partner at Deloitte in Belfast

Report: Public sector leaders want a 'pragmatic and collegiate' NI Executive

Retail NI chief executive Glyn Roberts welcomes progress on devolution and urges trade unions to call off Thursday's strike

Retail NI and Hospitality Ulster urges unions to call off Thursday's strike

Justin Cartwright, CIH national director for Northern Ireland called on leaders for ‘swift legislative action in the UK Parliament to solidify the terms of the agreement and enable the timely return of the Executive’

CIH: DUP's return to power-sharing crucial to addressing NI's housing crisis

Empty Classroom

NASUWT formally notifies employers that it will take strike action on January 18
The NASUWT has formally notified school and college employers that it will take strike action on Thursday 18 January over the failure to offer teachers and Further Education lecturers a fair and decent pay award.
Gemma Murray

Nurses protesting over wages and working conditions at Stormont last year. Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have announced strike action on January 18, joining other unions in a day of action

Largest nursing union in Northern Ireland joins day of industrial action

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris

Chris Heaton-Harris reconvening Hillsborough talks over NI funding

In 1993 Prime Minister John Major (above) and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds delivered the Downing Street Declaration deal, which argued for self-determination on the basis of consensus for all the people of the island of Ireland.
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Thirtieth anniversary of Downing Street Declaration

New figures from the Trussell Trust reveal that the charity’s Northern Ireland network of food banks distributed a record number of emergency food parcels between April and September this year – more than ever before for this six-month period and the largest increase in the UK. Pictured are volunteers at Carrickfergus food bank and warehouse sorting food and other items into bags for collection

Over 39,300 food parcels distributed in NI - the largest increase in the UK

Linfield manager David Healy is Northern Ireland's record goalscorer

IFA 'notes David Healy comments' in national training centre update

Chartered Accountants Ireland urges politicians to crystallise a lower rate, capitalise on Northern Ireland’s unique trading position under the Windsor Framework, and tackle the many critical issues facing the region, the resurrection of the Northern Ireland Executive continues to be urgently needed. Pictured is Janette Burns, chair of the Northern Ireland tax committee of Chartered Accountants Ireland

Lower corporation tax rate for NI is within grasp says Chartered Accountants

Perhaps Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Doug Beattie can explain how unionism benefits by establishing a Stormont executive that is obligated to enact NI Protocol legislation that is incompatible with the Act of Union?

Letter: DUP and UUP seem focused on getting back with Sinn Fein

Letters to editor

NI Tories: We will need better leaders if we are to improve railways

RICS regional board in Northern Ireland has appointed a new chair, and the RICS has also obtained new offices in Northern Ireland. Pictured are Sharon McClements, outgoing RICS NI board chair, Martin Doherty, newly appointed board chair of RICS NI and Emma Causer, market director RICS UK & Ireland at the new RICS offices in Custom House, Belfast (Press Eye Ltd)

RICS Northern Ireland appoints Martin Doherty as chairman

Auditor general, Dorinnia Carville, has published the third in a series of overview reports summarising the Northern Ireland Executive’s expenditure in response to the public health emergency.

Audit Office: Cost of Covid in NI almost £8bn

Parliament Buildings at Stormont Estate

Stormont departments urged to collaborate on anti-poverty strategy

Britain's King Charles III at the official ceremony presenting the new Sovereign's Standard to The Blues and Royals, at Buckingham Palace, in London

King Charles Birthday Honours List 2023 - All the Northern Ireland

Tom Elliott has warned of the impact of budget cuts on the agriculture sector

Government could be using budget cuts in NI as a blackmail tactic says UUP man

Speaking to 400 members and business guests at the Ulster Society’s annual dinner, Emma Murray, chairperson of Chartered Accountants Ulster Society called for devolution to be restored so that major challenges in health, education and the economy could be addressed

Chartered accountants Ulster Society calls for devolution to be restored

Jeremy Hunt in the Commons, 15-03-23

Budget March 2023: Sammy Wilson wonders if EU will be able to block budget plans

“These groups who are so dependent upon the money that this budget could provide and that Stormont could reflect, now find their work in jeopardy.”

MPs told to consider impact of Stormont deadlock on vulnerable women

Chair and eight members sought for the Northern Ireland Skills Council (NISC)

Chair and members sought for the Northern Ireland Skills Council

Give way sign outside Stormont

Deadline to form Executive: Clock ticking again for fresh elections

Andy Allen

£600 welcome but more support needed: UUP

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris is being pressed on why abortion services are the only part of the NHS which have been granted ring fenced funding.

NHS pressures: Catholic church queries why only abortion funding ringfenced

Energy Bills

Housing organisations hit out at delays to £600 energy payments

Parliament Buildings at Stormont Estate, in Northern Ireland. Legislation is set to be introduced at Westminster later to push back the deadline by which a Northern Ireland Executive must be formed. The Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Bill will also see MLA salaries slashed by about a third while the Assembly is unable to conduct business.

Legislation introduced to push back Stormont Executive deadline

A Give Way sign at Parliament Buildings at Stormont, Belfast.

Legislation to be introduced to push back deadline to form Executive

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak congratulates Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt after he delivered his autumn statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Thursday November 17, 2022.

NI households to receive £200 cost of living payment to help with heating costs

Northern Ireland Minister Steve Baker speaks at the 62nd plenary of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, Farnham Estate Spa and Golf Course in County Cavan, Ireland. Picture date: Monday October 24, 2022.

DUP urged to ‘choke down’ its position in refusing to reform government

Nurses on strike at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast in December 2019. Photo by Aaron McCracken

Nurses to choose whether to go on strike in NI today

Due to the sectarianism of Stormont MLAs having to designate by tribe, they fail to fully reflect their own or their constituents’ views

Political inaction causes failure

Mark Spence, managing director of the Construction Employers Federation

NI’s construction sector in a ‘worst-case scenario’ warns top industry figure