The Assembly

Campaigners call for action on child poverty at Stormont. Credit: Hannah Christie at Hyperfocus Creative

62,000 children in Northern Ireland face hunger and hardship. We need to turn wo...

Charity staff and food bank volunteers present Stormont with an invoice for the cost of inaction on child poverty

Charities demand the Assembly tackle child poverty or face 5bn bill

A simple majority is needed, so that the Assembly appears to have its say, but nationalists and pro-EU fanatics are guaranteed to win

Owen Polley: Gerrymandered Stormont vote on sea border will ensure more EU pain

Pipe exhaust car smoke emission

Miller and Carmichael urge Assembly to combat pollution

First Minister Michelle O'Neill faced down the chair of a shambolic Stormont committee this week, and refused to answer questions. Photo:Northern Ireland Assembly/PA Wire

First Minister to decide whether controversial meeting minutes will be released

Former Sinn Fein press officer Michael McMonagle, 42, admitted a series of offences, including attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity. Photo: PA/PA Wire.

Questions over who in SF is responsible for sex offender's Stormont pass

DUP MLA Johnny Buckley was one of several from his party who strongly condemned the violence of recent days, but insisted that his constituents find difficulties in accessing public services - in part due to immigration.

MLAs reject 'right to protest as a pillar of democracy'

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons, of the DUP, said there were real legal difficulties in defining conversion therapy for legislation.Photo: PA

Assembly votes for ‘conversion therapy’ ban again - but minister demurs

A report last month recommended a comprehensive expert review of how NI Water is funded and governed

Northern Ireland Water needs correct funding – Utility Regulator chief

Actor and director Michael Sheen

Friday TV choice: The Assembly (BBC One, 10.40pm)

Health minister Robin Swann - along with Justice Minister Naomi Long - want to extend certain powers under the Coronavirus Act 2020.

Stormont rejects extending some Covid powers

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood (centre), with South Belfast MP Claire Hanna (left) and Opposition leader Matthew O'Toole lead their MLAs into Stormont ahead of the first official Opposition day, following the decision by the SDLP to go into Opposition. Photo: Rebecca Black/PA Wire

Sinn Fein, DUP, TUV accused of ‘blocking Assembly reform’ as SDLP motion falls

Assembly urged to combat pollution

Outgoing speaker of the Assembly Alex Maskey says he wishes the public could see the friendships which exist across the floor of the house.
Picture By: Arthur Allison: PacemakerPress.

Alex Maskey's farewell as he stands down as speaker of Assembly

Pacemaker Press Belfast 15-01-2024: Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris is to hold further talks with the Stormont parties on efforts to restore devolved government. A series of one-to-one meetings are scheduled to take place on Monday at Hillsborough Castle.
The DUP delegation of leader Jeffrey Donaldson, Gavin Robinson and Emma Little-Pengelly has arrived to the talks to shouts from protesters.
Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

DUP leader urges government to release funding for public sector pay awards

File photo dated 07/11/22 of a general view of Carson Statue and Parliament Buildings at Stormont Estate, in Northern Ireland, as the Government has made clear the restoration of powersharing in Northern Ireland is an "absolute priority".

Assembly to be recalled this week in bid to back public sector pay
The Stormont Assembly will be recalled later this week in a bid to back a motion to endorse fair pay settlements for public sector workers.
By Cate McCurry, PA

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced the Windsor Framework earlier this year. The Stormont Brake was a key selling point - as it give a limited say to Stormont politicians over EU laws applicable to NI. Photo: PA.

Elliott: Stormont Brake ‘unworkable and mis-sold’

Irish language campaigners at a protest in Hillsborough in May 2022

£120k bill for Irish interpretation service at dormant Assembly 'scandalous'

UUP leader Doug Beattie has come under fire after accusing the DUP of whining like "girls" during an assembly debate.

Beattie’s whining like a girl remark 'fell well short' of expected standards

The Stormont Assembly is to be recalled as rival parties attempt to ramp up the pressure on the DUP to end its boycott of powersharing.

Stormont Assembly recalled as DUP rivals urge party to drop devolution boycott

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood (left) with MLA Matthew O’Toole who will be nominated to lead the opposition

SDLP wants to form an opposition at Stormont Assembly

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 13th May 2022 - MLAs pictured in the Assembly Chamber, at Parliament Buildings, Stormont Estate at the first sitting of the new mandate. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Stormont recall: DUP accuses SDLP of ‘trying to make themselves relevant’

Lord Trimble with his wife Daphne after the unveiling of his portrait by Colin Davidson at Queen's Management School, Riddel Hall in Belfast

Lord Trimble hails survival of Belfast Agreement as his portrait is unveiled

Overseas partners with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland at the 2022 General Assembly in Belfast. Left to rigt Prof Zoltan Literaty a minister in the Hungarian Reformed, Percy Patrick of the Gujarat Diocese of the Church of North India, Amon Chanika, Director of Scripture Union in Malawi with Rev Edwin and Anne Kibathi of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa.

Presbyterians hear how £1.1m spent in Ukraine

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said that unionists ‘cannot stand accused of lacking patience’ over action on the NI Protocol

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson: DUP will not nominate a speaker when Assembly meets

People from the Northern Ireland farming Community gather outside Stormont ahead of a debate on NI Minister for Agriculture Edwin Poots' Climate Change Bill.

Climate bill step closer to passing

Daithi McKay called on the Assembly to pass climate change legislation before it breaks up before the election

Climate change: Poll shows 61% support in NI for 2045 net-zero target
More than 60% of the public in Northern Ireland support a net-zero emissions target by 2045 in any climate change legislation passed by the Assembly, according to a new opinion poll.
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Brandon Lewis

Northern Ireland Secretary rules out early Stormont election

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

DUP challenges Finance Minister to commit to classroom air filters

Economy Minister Gordon Lyons with a mock-up of the Spend Local card before the scheme was launched

High street voucher: Deadline to spend £100 card extended

Getting a Covid injection

Robin Swann ‘slightly disappointed’ at Covid booster jab rate

Committee for Communities chair Paula Bradley. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

New bill at Stormont aims to protect tenants from rogue landlords

DUP MLA Diane Dodds

MLAs back call for governments to probe collusion

News Letter editorial

Time for action to bring children together at school

Shops face £1k fine over beer deal ads

Bar staff ‘will not finish work until 4.45am’ under new law – with no extra pay

DUP MLA Alex Easton.
Photo: Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

People ‘living in misery’ due to mould in rental properties

Sammy Wilson

DUP MP: We could pull out of Stormont if London imposes Irish act

LGBT campaigners picket a film screening at Townsend Presbyterian Church in Belfast in 2019 in which Matthew Grech told of his conversion to Christianity and leaving his LGBT identity.
Picture By: Arthur Allison.

'Gay cake' lobby groups threatens legal action over gay conversion therapy

Translating MLAs’ Irish or Ulster Scots will come with a hefty bill. Photo: Kelvin Boyes/ Pool/Getty

MLAs consider spending £150,000 to translate their Irish or Ulster Scots words

Aisling Twomey is Policy and Advocacy Manager with the Rainbow Project

Concern that assembly vote on 'gay therapy' could impact civil liberties

Bare shelves have become widespread across Northern Ireland

UK government response to NI’s empty shelves and trade issues ‘woeful’

Stormont

Assembly to discuss possible school closures tomorrow

Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill agreed the regulations late on the night of October 16 – but MLAs will not get to vote on them until days before they expire

Farce as NI’s sweeping pandemic restrictions won’t be debated by Assembly until ...

Alex Kane: Unionism needs a strategy because this is the endgame

Instinctively, we sympathise with police officers at this difficult time. It is comforting to imagine that police excesses during coronavirus have been teething troubles yet it is hard to make excuses for the statements of senior police officers

The PSNI over-stepped their powers on lockdown powers, then appeared to query cr...

The Assembly building will run with a skeleton staff, and the public will not be allowed in

Northern Ireland Assembly shuts to the public, but not to MLAs

Brendan McAllister speaking to the Executive Office scrutiny committee at Stormont

Top historical institutional abuse compensation ‘should be more than £100,000’

Micheal Martin and Colum Eastwood speaking outside Queen's University Belfast.

RHI Scheme no justificifation to collapse Stormont, says Martin

Nigel Dodds described the commitments as cosmetic

Brexit: Government's commitments over backstop meaningless, says Nigel Dodds

Michelle ONeill heads to Brussels on Wednesday for a meeting with chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier

Brexit: Michelle O'Neill rules out prospect of Stormont trade rules '˜veto'

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood and his deputy Nichola Mallon

Careful Colum '“ the SDLP's obliteration may be at hand

Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire will quit in July next year

Search begins for new NI police ombudsman

The Belfast Region Deal is a chance at the first real development in the province in over 50 years

Welcome to a new world order for Northern Ireland at least... possibly

Alex Kane

The DUP's core voters may be Foster's biggest problem

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