Ulster Unionist Party

Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026 celebrated at Commercial Court Belfast: Belfast has been confirmed as the host of the 2026 Comhaltas Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann. Belfast City Council made the successful bid alongside partners Ards CCÉ, pictured performing in Commercial Court Belfast.

UUP welcomes All Ireland Fleadh but asks if it will be 'truly inclusive'

John Stewart MLA, Diana Armstrong MLA, Doug Beattie MLA, Cllr Kate Evans and Conor O’Kane, Manager at Dogs Trust Ballymena, with Fudge the dog

MLAs from the Ulster Unionist Party visit Dogs Trust Ballymena

Protestors outside the DUP meeting at the Larchfield Estate in January last year where the party voted to return to Stormont. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Owen Polley: Whether or not unionism is united, it still needs to do better

Doug Beattie says police officers conducting strip searches - and those present - must match the biological sex at birth of the individual being searched. "There should be no exception to this rule", he added.

Only birth sex is relevant for police strip searches - Doug Beattie

Morning View

Editorial: Big challenges ahead for UUP in coming year amid internal divisions

East Londonderry UUP representatives Robert Carmichael, left, and Glen Miller.

Set up Northern Ireland Imperial War Museum in East Londonderry, urge Miller and...

East Londonderry UUP representatives Robert Carmichael, left, and Glen Miller.

Miller and Carmichael issues festive message to East Londonderry constituents

The UK government is taking the 'first steps' to repeal and replace controversial legislation designed to address the legacy of the Troubles, Hilary Benn has said

Letter: Stormont House Agreement is no solution to legacy issues

East Londonderry UUP spokesmen Robert Carmichael, left, and Glen Miller.

Keep up Anti-Bullying campaign, urge Miller and Carmichael

Pipe exhaust car smoke emission

Miller and Carmichael urge Assembly to combat pollution

Mr Glen Miller of the East Londonderry UUP Association.

Buy local to save farmers, urge Miller and Carmichael

Mr Glen Miller of the East Londonderry UUP Association.

Remember families of the Fallen, urge Miller and Carmichael

The DUP promoted the idea that the Safeguarding the Union document fixed the Windsor Framework and the protocol, writes Doug Beattie

Letter: DUP must take ownership now secrets are spilling out

Mr Glen Miller of the East Londonderry UUP Association.

Miller and Carmichael call for litter-free East Londonderry

Mike Nesbitt chaired the TEO committee for five years.

MLAs set 'very bad precedent' by sending First Minister advance questions

Mr Glen Miller of the East Londonderry UUP Association.

Keep watch over elderly neighbours, urges Miller.
Glen Miller, the East Londonderry Ulster Unionist Party Chief Spokesperson, has called on the community to become the ‘eyes and ears’ of the elderly as the dark winter nights loom.
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Mr Glen Miller of the East Londonderry UUP Association.

Don't take nurses for granted, warn Miller and Carmichael

Michelle O'Neill says she did not know the whereabouts of her former colleague Michael McMonagle (left, highlighted) during the period this image was taken. This still from a video taken by BBC Northern Ireland in February 2023 shows Michelle O'Neill standing a few yards from him

Letter: Assessment of McMonagle scandal is needed now

The DUP said that the Labour Party - then the opposition - had signed up to the the Safeguarding the Union command paper, published in February. However, they have now confirmed they are not following through with a key commitment.

Labour scrap key part of Tory-DUP Irish Sea border deal

Letter to the editor

Letter: British Gibraltarians are an inspiration to unionists

Steve Aiken has questioned assurances given by the government on public finances.

UUP question reliance on £500m Treasury assurances

Mike Nesbitt

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt tests positive for Covid

Glen Miller, East Londonderry chief spokesman

Stresses and strains of working in the agricultural sector

Morning View

Editorial: Millions more spent on Finucane but judge murders won't get scrutiny

Morning View

Editorial: Mike Nesbitt makes plausible points about unionist unity

News UUP leader Mike Nesbitt says he feels "very confident" that he has got the support of "the vast majority if not all" of the UUP's elected representatives. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Nesbitt focuses on stabilising UUP after recent turmoil

Ulster Unionist Party leadership favourite Mike Nesbitt. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Former leader backs Mike Nesbitt as next Ulster Unionist Party boss
One of the three UUP leaders who have served the party since hopeful Mike Nesbitt last held the position has publicly backed the Strangford MLA for a return to the top job.
David Thompson

Lagan Valley MLA Robbie Butler has welcomed Mike Nesbitt's candidature and said he is right for the role 'at this time'. Pic credit: Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Butler says Mike Nesbitt is right for leader role ‘at this time’

Doug Beattie was the latest in what will soon be seven Ulster Unionist Party leaders in 14 years

Ben Lowry: UUP far from finished but like all parties struggles to find leaders

The Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is suspending his presidential campaign at a news conference on Friday, Aug 23, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Darryl Webb)

Ben Lowry: Kamala was ahead in White House race but now RFK gives Trump a boost

The former UUP leader Mike Nesbitt’s unionism sometimes seems like the Christianity practised by vicars who do not believe in God. Above left in 2019 he joined Alliance’s Stephen Farry and SF’s Niall Ó Donnghaile, right, behind Jake and Emma de Souza’s bid to have UK citizenship law applied differently in Northern Ireland. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

Owen Polley: Ulster Unionists take note - you can be moderate and firm on Union

Doug Beattie, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) speaks during his party's manifesto launch at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast. Picture date: Wednesday June 26, 2024.

Can any leader ever reform the UUP?

Morning View

Editorial: Doug Beattie wanted an attractive and intelligent form of unionism

Doug Beattie quit on Monday, citing “irreconcilable differences” with party officers

Tributes paid as ‘fair, tough and reasonable’ Doug Beattie quits as UUP leader

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Miller and Carmichael congratulate students on exam success

Sinn Fein's Pat Cullen celebrates after winning the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency. Once a closely fought marginal, it seems to have opted decisively for Sinn Fein

Letter: DUP and UUP will have to agree a candidate in many constituencies

Candidate for North Antrim TUV leader Jim Allister pictured at the count at Meadowbank Leisure Centre in Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry. Photo by Jonathan Porter/Press Eye : General election 2024

Jim Allister has defeated Ian Paisley in North Antrim

Tara Mills hosting the BBC NI Leaders' Debate in Belfast with (left to right) SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood, Sinn Fein Chris Hazzard, Justice Minister and Alliance leader Naomi Long, DUP Leader Gavin Robinson, and Ulster Unionist Party deputy leader Robbie Butler

NI politicians clash on health, Stormont stability and Irish unity in TV debate

The UUP 2024 Election Manifesto contains a pledge to "provide fertility services accessible to all without discrimination", raising questions about how gay male couples could have a legal right to fertility services. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

UUP fertility for all pledge 'exact same' wording as Stonewall's

The Ulster Unionist North Down candidate Colonel Tim Collins and party leader Doug Beattie MC. Mr Beattie writes that at Stormont House Sinn Fein, the DUP, and other parties agreed that only legacy murders would be investigated while bombings and shootings were swept under the carpet

Doug Beattie: UUP stood alone on legacy to prevent hierarchy of victims

In February, then DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the Safeguarding the Union deal 'takes away the border within the UK'. Today in the assembly, DUP MLA Deborah Erskine slammed the current arrangements – and appeared to set out mutual enforcement arrangements as the party’s formal policy alternative

Irish Sea border: DUP slams trade arrangements it backed in February

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has set out his party's vision for the country - including plans for Northern Ireland. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Labour committed to Irish Sea border

Pat Cullen, then General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, outside court in London last year, as the government challenged strike action by nurses. Cullen revealed her view last year that “the only hope for the NHS is reunification” of Ireland

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Cullen ducks queries about quitting nursing to stand for SF

Dr Dan Boucher is the DUP's former Director of Policy and Research

Ex-DUP policy chief defects to TUV

Rodney Connor, who was an agreed non party unionist candidate in the 2010 general election for Fermanagh SouthvTyrone, seen during the Westminster election count at the Omagh Leisure Centre. He lost the contest by four votes and then unsuccessfully appealed the result through the courts. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

A non party unionist candidate might run in Fermanagh and South Tyrone: Allister

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a General Election campaign event at ExCeL London, in east London, after calling a General Election for July 4. Picture

Contrasting fortunes for leading Stormont parties ahead of election

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BT to withdraw 300 jobs from its Enniskillen contact centre by October 2024

Leader of the Opposition Matthew O'Toole (SDLP MLA) speaks to members of the media in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings, Stormont. Photo: David Young/PA Wire

Opposition: Executive is failing on key challenges

Health Minister Robin Swann during a Covid-19 press conference in February 2021. Pic: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Covid-19 Swann reshuffle claim 'extraordinary and bizarre'

It is a "pretty fair assumption" that MLA Mike Nesbitt (pictured) will be Stormont's next health minister, Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie has said

'Fair assumption' Mike Nesbitt will be new Health Minister: Beattie

“I asked myself, could I do a better job? And the answer is absolutely”. Tim Collins on why he's running in the Westminster election for the Ulster Unionist Party.

Collins: Rivals concerned with 'potholes and dog excrement'

Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie says the Kingsmill inquest has not delivered for families.

Doug Beattie: Kingsmill inquest, which lasted eight years, was a failure

Letters to editor

Letter: The Orange Order is on the fence over the Irish Sea border

First Minister Michelle O'Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly seen last week at Lough Neagh. Ms O'Neill: "My priority in this period is to provide that leadership that the public rightly deserve and expect from their political leaders" Photo: Rebecca Black/PA Wire

O'Neill and Pengelly emphasise stability of Stormont after downfall of Donaldson

DUP MP Gregory Campbell has accused the TUV of a "wrecking ball" approach to unionist politics

Echoes of past as unionism faces deal divisions

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