Peter Hain

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 12th July 2023 - Chris Heaton-Harris, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland along with Carla Lockhart MP and Margaret Tinsley, Mayor of Armagh, Banbridge Craigavon Borough Council watch the parade at Brownlow House with Orange Order officers at the County Armagh Twelfth Demonstration making itÕs way through Lurgan town centre to Brownlow House. Eleven District Lodges were on parade, with a total of 150 Private Lodges and almost 5,000 orangemen.In addition, ladies from the Association of Loyal Orangewomen of Ireland took part, along with a number of Junior Boys and Junior Girls Lodges.The Co. Almost 70 bands will accompany the lodges and some of the finest pipe, accordion, silver and flute Bands in the country will be on parade. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye :Lurgan 12th

Orangeman wants public clarification from Braverman

Rates bill

Heaton-Harris could seek to ‘incentivize’ Stormont return with rates hike

The courts, especially in Belfast, remain open to legacy cases against the state, generously funded by the state: judicial reviews, demands for re-opening of inquests, civil suits for damages, challenges on convictions, new inquiry requests, alongside police ombudsman investigations and Strasbourg cases

Book extract: Lawfare against the UK state by nationalists cannot lose

Letter to the editor

Hain was senior in a government which gave terrorists letters of comfort

Tony Blair and Peter Hain in 2005, when the former was prime minister and the latter was secretary of state for Northern Ireland

Peter Hain: The amnesty plan goes far beyond anything in the On The Run scheme

Letter to the editor

Lord Hain criticises an amnesty yet the PM for whom he worked, Blair, agreed one

Former NI Secretary Peter Hain. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker

Peter Hain backs Louise Haigh over position on NI’s status

Letter to the editor

Ruth Dudley Edwards might change her mind about Wave group if she visited it

Ruth Dudley Edwards, the author and commentator, 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: Peter Hain has again shown a tin ear for victims of terror

Letter to the editor

Peter Hain is in no place to give lectures to people about honesty

Peter Hain pictured before he entered Stormont Parliment on the first day of the Northern Ireland Assembly on May 8, 2007. Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker

Lord Hain discusses new thriller and lessons that need to be learned in NI

News Letter editorial

It was Peter Hain’s government, and the neutral-on-terrorism definition of a vic...

Lord Hain spoke out strongly in the Lords against the ‘savage denial of rights’ due to the hold-up in the Troubles pension scheme

Victims’ pension delays: Brandon Lewis and NIO ‘should be thoroughly ashamed of ...

Paul Gallagher, loyalist gun attack survivor

And still we wait for action over Troubles pension cash

Morning View

Shankill victims' pain heightened by bomber Kelly

Peter Hain

NI legislation '˜Direct Rule in all but name'

Former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain has said the UK Government legislating for the region in the absence of an executive amounts to 'direct rule in all but name'.

By The Newsroom

Lord Hain said Prime Minister Theresa May had 'taken her eye of the ball' in Northern Ireland

Hain slammed after claiming PM is to blame for Stormont deadlock

Martin McGuinness and Arlene Foster in November last year, around two months before Mr McGuinness quit as deputy first minister

Stormont turmoil meant NI leaders had no voice in Lords Brexit report

Alex Kane

This embarrassing, unfunny DUP-SF farce has run its course '“ end it now

Jim Nicholson: The peace deal in Northern Ireland is not at risk from unionists ...

Peter Hain, as the Labour former Cabinet minister will seek to force major changes on the Brexit Bill

Hain to demand open border with Republic

Peter Hain: Peace process could unravel under Brexit

Peter Hain

Detail in St Andrews Agreement was not disagreed with: Peter Hain

The Seamus Heaney HomePlace centre in Bellaghy

Seamus Heaney opposed A6 road plan '˜desecration'

The Scales of Justice

The one-sided approach to the past

Peter Hain

Act of Union aimed at keeping UK together proposed by Peter Hain

Sean Kelly was released without charge after being arrested on Thursday

Shankill victim's brother in plea to NIO over bomber Kelly

The brother of a young Shankill bomb victim is seeking a meeting with the Secretary of State Theresa Villiers over the latest arrest of IRA bomber Sean Kelly.

By The Newsroom