Northern Ireland Executive

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn praised the minimum wage rise. Photo: James Manning/PA Wire

Today's minimum wage rise a real help, says Benn as stores warn of cost storm

Stormont Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir has welcomed the funding

More than £38m of funding for seven rural regeneration projects

Belfast City Centre

NI construction market remains steady with optimism ahead

Belfast Pride parading through the city centre in 2019. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker

Belfast Pride cancels launch night after own supporters' politician ban fury

China's Consul General Li Nan met with First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly earlier this month. Pic: Chinese government.

First Ministers' meeting with Chinese official 'far beyond' their remit - UUP

Belfast Pride in 2019. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker

Belfast LGBT Pride politician ban survey sparks fury from own supporters

A computer-generated image of the new children's hospital, supplied by contractor the Graham-BAM Healthcare Partnership

'Welcome news about new hospital - but it comes late and well over-budget'

SONI control room

System Operator for Northern Ireland launches new multi-year strategy

This week marked the one-year anniversary of the restoration of Stormont and the Northern Ireland Executive

Letter: Stormont must be held to account for its failures

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn arrives in Downing Street, London, for a Cabinet meeting in December. Photo: James Manning/PA Wire/PA Images

Benn to slam Stormont over 'missed opportunities' to reform public spending

Cat McCusker, President, Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Call for urgent injection of confidence from the Northern Ireland Executive

Eóin Tennyson MLA.

Tennyson welcomes Your School Your Club funding boost for Lismore

End Violence Against Women and Girls

Ending violence against women and girls in Northern Ireland

NI Chamber President Caitroina McCusker

NI Chamber President's New Year message: Time to get down to business

Maurice Morrow

State papers: DUP minister rebuffed pub opening extension for Jubilee

Morning View

Editor: Allowing puberty blocker trials on children is still unethical
News Letter editorial on Friday December 13 2024:
Editorial

Foodbank

NI Executive urged to act on hunger as 35,000 emergency food parcels distributed

A fresh legal challenge has been submitted to the A5 road upgrade

Fresh legal challenge submitted over A5 upgrade

Farmers who inherit land worth a total of £1m or more will face a new 20% tax under plans laid out by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in her Budget at the end of October.

Change course on "cash cow" farmer tax, says Little-Pengelly

The scene following the Enniskillen bomb blast which claimed the lives of 11 people

Simon Harris to skip Enniskillen visit on advice from Government officials

The TUV overturned a DUP majority of over 12,000 in North Antrim - when Jim Allister took the seat from incumbent Ian Paisley - whilst also making significant gains in East Antrim and East Londonderry

Letter: Unity will come by building on policies that defend Union

Liam Kelly, chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland (PFNI), a representative body for officers

Federation tells Ministers to re-write draft PfG to give priority to policing

It was unwise for unionists to return to government before getting an agreement they were happy with - and also unwise to rule out collapsing Stormont again, writes R G McDowell

Letter: Are we actually making Northern Ireland work?

Both the Irish government and Sinn Fein will view Gavin Robinson’s comments on not collapsing Stormont as a blank cheque, writes Kirk McDowell

Letter: Robinson shouldn’t have ruled out threat of collapse

First Minister Michelle O'Neill (left), Infrastructure Minister John O'Dowd and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly at the press conference at Stormont Castle announcing the go ahead for the A5 upgrade

Executive confirms upgrade to A5 road will begin next year

The A5 upgrade will link Londonderry with Aughnacloy in Tyrone with a dual carriageway

Green light for A5 road project expected from Stormont executive

Aneurin Bevan famously addressed the Labour Party conference in 1957 and spoke against a motion proposing unilateral nuclear disarmament

Letter: Going naked into the conference chamber
A letter from Dr Paul Kingsley:
Letters

Paul McGee, head of corporate banking, Bank of Ireland, Heather White, nations manager, Institute of Directors Northern Ireland and John Hansen, chair of the Institute of Directors in Northern Ireland. The trio were pictured at the IoD NI’s annual dinner event which took place in the Culloden Hotel

IoD chair calls for an EU Economic Envoy for NI at annual dinner event

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Hilary Benn speaks during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Monday September 23, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Labour. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Hilary Benn: Northern Ireland Executive must live within its means

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

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

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