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Editorial: The DUP stood up to represent Northern Ireland in Washington DC

All smiles: US President Donald Trump and DUP Upper Bann MLA Jonathan Buckley meet in Washington.

Smile for the camera! Delighted Stormont MLA posts beaming photo with Trump

First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly at Lenovo in North Carolina, during a visit to the United States. Photo: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye/PA Wire

Trump ‘hasn’t heard’ of Sinn Fein, SDLP and Alliance St Patrick’s boycotts

Daniel McCrossan, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee at Stormont, speaking today, 06-03-25

Almost 11,000 people in one week fill in GP appointment survey

Morning View

Editorial: Programme for Government so vague as to have little significance

First Minister Michelle O'Neill (left) and deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly (right) with the Stormont Executive's Programme for Government, outside Parliament Buildings in Belfast

Stormont backs long-awaited programme for government

Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole.

O'Toole: DUP's fingerprints 'more obvious' on Stormont's PfG

Hilary Benn said there are many communities that continue to suffer real harm due to paramilitaries

No question of paying any paramilitary group to disband, says Hilary Benn

Cleaning staff at Stormont-run government departments are facing job cuts - partly due to an increased use of robots.

Cleaning staff at Stormont departments face cuts - as humans replaced by robots

Plans to extend the Glider bus service to the north and south of Belfast are being scaled back because they are “not economically viable”, Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has told the Assembly.

Plans to extend Glider bus services in Belfast are scaled back

Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole.

O'Toole accuses Stormont ministers of 'avoiding scrutiny'

Forensic officers examine the white taxi in which a man was shot in the Poleglass area of west Belfast on Sunday morning

Shooting of a man in Dunmurry labelled as "a reckless attack"

Prayer can (and does) change hearts and minds to a more positive outlook, writes Rev Fr John McCallion

Letter: Secularists are afraid of the power of prayer

DUP MLA Peter Martin criticised Alliance, Sinn Fein and SDLP for their attitude to a women's rights group giving evidence to a Stormont committee last week.

Women's rights and religious freedoms central to potential NI equality bill

Donald and Melania Trump with a bowl of Shamrock, presented by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar during a St Patrick's Day Celebration reception and Shamrock presentation ceremony at the White House in Washington D.C in 2019

SDLP will not attend St Patrick’s Day events in Washington DC

There has been an ongoing row so far this year in Belfast City Council over the Armed Forces Covenant (photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Veterans' commissioners old and new lament rejection of Armed Forces Covenant
Both the current and former veterans’ commissioners for Northern Ireland have decried a decision by Belfast City Council to reject the Armed Forces Covenant.
Adam Kula

Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole said that on 'a whole range of areas the executive has failed, repeatedly and consistently to deliver'

People in NI deserve better than Executive which has ‘failed repeatedly’ – SDLP

Belfast City Hall

Sinn Fein requests City Hall 'light up' for Irish National Day on July 11

Belfast City Hall.

Calls for Belfast to undo 'minor equality impact' Armed Forces Covenant block

Belfast City Hall.

Anger as Belfast Council blocks Armed Forces Covenant on 'minor equality' impact

SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Storm Eowyn: MLA struggles to contact NIE emergency line

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Hilary Benn.

Stormont Brake blocked by the UK government - who say tests not met

Former News Letter political editor Mervyn Pauley outside Stormont

Tributes as former News Letter political editor Mervyn Pauley dies at age of 88

SDLP spokesperson for Education, Cara Hunter MLA at Parliament Buildings at Stormont in Belfast. The SDLP East Londonderry MLA is pushing for action to clamp down on online abuse, and has urged Stormont Justice Minister Naomi Long for a comprehensive review of law around online violence against women and girls

SDLP MLA targeted by deepfake video urges legal clampdown

The most crucial public services requiring reform are the health and social care services, writes Jack Irwin

Letter: Health care services are in dire need of reform

SDLP leader Claire Hanna says 2025 must be about delivery for families.

'In 2025 we must deliver on waiting lists, education and housing'

Sorcha Eastwood’s win in Lagan Valley disguised an otherwise demoralising general election for Alliance Pic: Oliver McVeigh/PA Wire

Owen Polley: Reasons for unionists to be cheerful for the year ahead
In Northern Ireland, there was a lot to moan about during 2024, from a pro-Union perspective.
Owen Polley

Morning View

Editorial: A first minister of Northern Ireland who commemorates IRA terrorism

TUV leader and North Antrim MP Jim Allister

Allister asks DUP if it is ready to collapse Northern Ireland's government again

DUP leader Gavin Robinson says the focus of the pending Irish government will be health and houses - not a border poll.

'Dublin's focus is health and housing - not border poll'

Colum Eastwood

Next Irish government should begin planning for united Ireland says Eastwood

The 2010 Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government resulted in heavy losses for the Liberal Democrats in 2015

Letter: UUP should seek revival from the opposition benches

Our form of government at Stormont simply isn’t working and will never work, writes Jack Irwin

Letter: How is a four-party government democracy?

Robin Swann is the only local MP on a parliamentary delegation which liaises with the EU on post-Brexit arrangements.

Robin Swann announced as only local MP on UK-EU relations panel

A doctor

Cervical screening shortcomings are unacceptable, says health minister

The First Minister's office has released text messages between Michelle O'Neill and Paula Bradshaw which had not previously been declared by the committee chair.

‘Just leave it’ – Opposition MLA on FM’s texts to scrutiny chair

SDLP MPs Claire Hanna and Colum Eastwood may abstain on Friday's assisted dying vote.

SDLP MPs yet to decide on assisted dying vote stance

Morning View

Editorial: There are risks to insulting a US president, as Scotland has found

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons said the payment would be made before the end of March 2025.

All NI pensioner households hit by winter fuel support cut to get £100 – Lyons

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

Fresh legal challenge submitted over A5 upgrade

Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole will bring a motion to Stormont calling on the Secretary of State to look at NI representation in the European Parliament.

Stormont's official opposition to demand NI representation in EU Parliament

Stormont's Executive Office committee is chaired by Paula Bradshaw. Photo: screengrab from NI Assembly.

Paula Bradshaw says urgent action is needed on racism

Education Minister Paul Givan ignored his own official's advice by meeting with a Loyalist umbrella group, the Assembly has been told.

Givan ignored official's advice over meet with Loyalist group

Belfast Council committee rejects application for Irish street signs

Irish Street signs application rejected despite reaching approval threshold

A court recently overturned a council motion to limit the flying of the Union Flag after an appeal by Jamie Bryson

Letter: Praise for Bryson over council challenge

DUP leader Gavin Robinson said the eyes of the world are fixed on the US, which underscores the importance of the outcome of the election.

DUP and SDLP: US election important for NI

The Union Flag flies 365 days per year on some war memorials in Northern Ireland, such as this one at Lisburn's Castle Gardens.

Names of councillors behind overturned flag motion still secret

Jamie Bryson has won his case against a local council over their Union Flag policy - after officials admitted defeat. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Council admits defeat to Bryson in Union Flag case

Belfast City Hall hosts a Christmas charity collection box, though this year councillors split over whether to give the money to a Palestinian medical aid organisation or the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice.

Gaza collection box fight sparks DUP rule change bid

Raied Al-Wazzan (front right) takes part in the Belfast For All: Anti-Racism Rally

Stormont challenged to strengthen race hate legislation

Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill

Policy meetings with active paramilitaries should not be facilitated: O'Neill

Education Minister Paul Givan

Paul Givan defends meeting group linked to loyalist paramilitaries

Economy Minister Conor Murphy has rowed back from comments he made around whether the British Heart Foundation should have been warned that Michael McMonagle was under police investigation. Photo: David Young/PA Wire

Murphy retreats from comments blaming charity over McMonagle scandal

A plan from the Health Minister to reform the NHS in Northern Ireland appears to be short on detail in light of all the similar work that has gone before, parties have claimed.

Parties critique Mike Nesbitt's hospital reform plans

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood (second left) and former taoiseach Leo Varadkar (left) talking to schoolchildren from Londonderry during an event at the Playhouse theatre hosted by the SDLP's New Ireland Commission

Varadkar proposes two-stage referendum process for Irish unification vote

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