Unionists

Deputy first minister Emma Little-Pengelly met and had talks with President Donald Trump in Washington DC last week

Letter: Unionists will regret their time with President Trump in DC

Sinn Fein Infrastructure Minister Kimmins pictured with Seamus Keenan, DfI Roads, at the A5. She said she is keen to see the A5 scheme progress without further delays. Photo: Dept of Infrastructure.

A5 upgrade: UUP say farmers 'under siege' as land taken but no payments made

Spending money is no object to Stormont. Its MLAs support demands for almost all spending, but reject all revenue raising

Ben Lowry: When cuts come across Europe, wasteful NI will be first in line

Dr John Coulter, political commentator.

Unionism needs new grassroots Vanguard movement to promote party unity

Letters to editor

Letter: Unionists keep being taken by surprise

Upper Newtownards Road runs through Ballyhackamore in Belfast. Photo: Google Streetview

Bid to have Irish street names on East Belfast landmarks at city council

The 1987 IRA bombing at the Cenotaph in Enniskillen is one of the IRA attacks the UUP wants an inquiry into

UUP: Recent decisions by UK government help IRA rewrite history

Belfast City Council recently took the decision not to support the Armed Forces Covenant

Letter: Unionists in dilemma at next election

Police examine an abandoned getaway car after the shooting, with damage caused to the roof of a nearby church shown behind. Picture: Pacemaker Archive.

'Ludicrous' IRA machine-gun gang ruling blasted as slap in victims' faces

The High Court ordered yet another public inquiry into a particular type of Troubles killing, one in which there are claims against the state, when the far larger number of terrorist murders escape scrutiny

Ben Lowry: A crucial appeal against another outrageous court ruling on legacy

Spring lambs at Netown Crumlin in the Glens of Antrim which faced certain slaughter as they were in the third area affected by foot-and-mouth disease in 2001. Photo: PA.

Foot and Mouth - Unionists slam UK for protecting GB but not NI

In all aspects, the challenge is a definitive drawing of the line around the future of devolution in Northern Ireland

Letter: Applying the 'brake' goes far beyond gesture politics

Dr John Coulter, political commentator

Stormont Brake could be blueprint for a Westminster Brake on EU

TUV leader Jim Allister and party MLA Timothy Gaston

TUV New Year message: DUP deal left Union weaker

Belfast Harbour

Irish Sea border freight checks 'not gone, just moved'

Morning View

Editorial: The new commissioner for veterans in NI faces an uphill task
News Letter editorial on Thursday December 19 2024:
Editorial

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'

Steve Aiken has slammed Sinn Fein and Alliance's approach to new EU rules in Stormont's Windsor Framework committee.

Unionists slam ‘absurd’ new rules as Irish Sea border hardens further

Morning View

Editorial: Unionists in symbolic display of unity for sham vote against border

Lord Dodds

Unionists condemn 'pet passports' in House of Lords debate

Letters to editor

Letter: Unionists were duped by London and by their own politicians

A sign in Castelderg calling on the boycott of Protestant businesses and religious services.

'Inaction' on sectarian sign calling for boycott of Protestant businesses

Sanctions against Russia have made no significant difference to the outcome of the conflict as the war machine continues to advance. Meanwhile, the people of Ukraine continue to suffer devastating causalities

Letter: Unionists should rethink their position on Russia

It appears Northern Ireland's first ministers won't bring the protocol vote to the Assembly, as the DUP won't sign it off. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Looming vote is ‘defining moment’ for NI in Union

UK newspapers report President-elect Donald Trump's victory. His support went up among blacks and Hispanics. The woke extremism that is so embedded in the liberal consensus at Stormont and NI NGOs has been rejected by US voters (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Ben Lowry: Trump win shows unionists that decline is not inevitable

Belfast Council rejects trilingual sign bid

New Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire

Badenoch win 'chance to strengthen Union'
Kemi Badenoch's victory has been given a broad welcome by Unionists.
Iain Gray

Steve Aiken has warned that Stormont must focus on key priorities and not 'squander' extra cash.

UUP: Stormont mustn’t ‘squander’ extra cash from Treasury

Stormont failed to achieve cross community support for a new EU law in March - a law the UK government supported.

Government 'defying' Stormont on landmark vote rejecting EU law

A 2015 assessment said Provisional IRA structures remain in existence. Last week the PSNI said that the assessment ‘has not changed’

Letter: Unionists will not tolerate two-tier system

My message to unionist politicians sitting up in Stormont having a good old chuckle as we speak is shame on you, writes Simon Moye

Letter: Unionists sleepwalking into a united Ireland

TUV MP Jim Allister has secured the support of all NI's unionist MPs for a new bill on the Irish Sea border

Unionists unite behind Jim Allister's sea border bill

It was Boris Johnson who eventually agreed to the Irish Sea border and implemented it. Pro-Union politicians here have reacted relatively timidly to a serious and unnecessary dilution of their British status

Owen Polley: Unionists are certainly not wallowing in self-pity

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

Whether northern Cyprus is formally recognised as an independent state, reunified with the south or the whole island joined with Greece would have little effect on our lives either way, writes D J Stewart

Letter: We have no part in the conflicts of other countries

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer did not mention Northern Ireland in his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference, in Liverpool. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Owen Polley: Unionists need to make their case to a national audience

Pat Finucane’s death is emblematic of that ghastly situation brought about by so called radicals and progressives, writes Neil McCarthy

Neil McCarthy: Singling out Finucane case suits wrong Troubles narrative

Lord Empey says the Belfast Agreement could not possibly have envisaged many of the detailed employment issues now being considered by the EU - with some arguing that what EU does we must do here.

Lord Empey: Windsor Framework ruling has ‘opened can of worms'

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

UUP question reliance on £500m Treasury assurances

Prominent Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane was shot at his home by the Ulster Defence Association gunmen.

Finucane Inquiry: Claims UK Government is creating a 'hierarchy of victims'

Nationalist Ireland voted overwhelmingly to accept UK sovereignty over Northern Ireland in 1998. All unionism had to do was keep soft nationalists on side but instead it antagonised them

Letter: Unionists won in 1998 but antagonised those who'll decide NI's future

John Coulter’s article, published last month, suggested a relaxation of church dress code in order to get more people through the doors

Letter: Is church hats issue a dangerous distraction?

TUV leader Jim Allister took the North Antrim seat from the DUP at the general election.

DUP has no plans to 'face up to ramifications of deal'

The beach in Kyrenia in the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on the divided island of Cyprus, in August 2023. The historic port on the north coast was mostly Greek until 1974 and is now Turk. There is little hope of a single Cypriot state encompassing the whole island now, after almost total ethnic cleansing (Photo by Birol BEBEK / AFP via Getty Images)

Ben Lowry: Unionists support the Turk Cypriots yet might have backed the Greeks

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood during a press conference where he announced his resignation as party leader. Picture date: Thursday August 29, 2024. Photo: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

Eastwood oversaw the 'greening' of the SDLP

Morning View

Editorial: The populist SNP government has been forced into u-turns

Veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott has said she believes the new UK government should call a border poll. She said it would establish where public opinion lies on both sides of the Irish border

Letter: Unionists shouldn't be angered over Abbott border poll call

Successive UK governments have failed to get to grips with what the IRA was up to on legacy. Tony Blair in 2001 tried to help IRA On The Runs get an an amnesty while in 2014, when David Cameron was in power, there was a breathtaking omission in the 2014 Stormont House legacy agreement to so much as suggest looking at Irish extradition refusals

Ben Lowry: Unionists have helped reinstate a pro IRA approach to legacy

Local Orange leaders had suggested that last Sunday would be the ideal time to allow the 1998 parade to be completed as it would coincide with Armagh playing in the All-Ireland gaelic football final, with the majority of the Garvaghy Road community in Portadown either "away to Croke Park" or watching the game on TV

Neil McCarthy: Shared spaces concept must apply to both sides

A "progress pride flag" on display; the flag is one of several used by the transgender movement. ‘Puberty blockers’ is the general name for drugs which are often given to teenagers and pre-teens who declare themselves to be transgender

Letter: Puberty blockers are not the answer

Sue Gray, the former civil servant and chief of staff to Keir Starmer, is fond of citizens' assemblies. But with regard to devolution in Northern Ireland they will be vehicles to try to help remove us from the UK, writes Ben Lowry. Photograph by Declan Roughan / Press Eye

Ben Lowry: Unionists should prepare for the trap of civil assemblies

Following on from achieving the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, the next step must now be taken, writes Garvin Crawford

Letter: Peace demands that we overcome critical challenges

Edwin Poots says that 'project fear' is not the way to win back votes.

Unionists winning back Lagan Valley won't be easy - Poots

First Minister Michelle O'Neill, Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, after a meeting at Stormont Caste. Sir Keir is now ambiguous about his support for the Union, having expressed firm unionist sentiments in opposition. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Owen Polley: Unionists will need to be wary about the naivete of Labour leaders

Hilary Benn outside Waterfront Hall last Sunday when Ben Lowry asked him if he would push back against Ireland given that it was suing the UK. Earlier Ben asked the BBC why it had not covered the way unionists polled more than nationalists. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire : Hilary Benn

Ben Lowry: Why I said on BBC about it ignoring unionist vote and grilled Benn

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