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Taoiseach Micheal Martin and US President Donald Trump during the St Patrick's Day Reception and Shamrock Ceremony in the the East Room of the White House, in Washington DC. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Ireland would benefit from 'favourable' UK-US trade deal - Taoiseach

US President Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer hold a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington DC. The Prime Minister has resisted calls for the UK to immediately hit back at US tariffs on British goods. Photo: Carl Court/PA Wire

Economist questions logic of Mike Nesbitt's Trump trade deal comments

Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly presenting US President Donald Trump with a personalized flag from Royal Portrush Golf Club, at the US Capitol in Washington DC. Photo: NI Executive /PA Wire

Little Pengelly: NATO membership helped sell NI in the United States

Dr John Coulter, political commentator.

Trump's tantrums signal trade warning to Southern Ireland - get out of the Europ...

Economy Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald has welcomed the latest international success of Belfast-based Artemis Technologies during her visit to the United States. Economy Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald is pictured with Artemis Technologies co-founder David Tyler at the company’s New York base at Brooklyn Navy Yard

NI's Artemis Technologies makes waves in the US with multi-million dollar deal

Michael Dunlop has won the last six Supersport races at the Isle of Man TT on his MD Racing Yamaha R6. (Photo by Pacemaker Press)

Michael Dunlop 'relying on lot of raw talent' against leading BSB names

The row between President Zelensky and President Trump in the White House was a tough watch, especially if you only saw the argument. In reality it was a mostly peaceful 50 minute meeting that only went sideways in the last ten minutes (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Phelim McAleer: Donald Trump is fed up with European free-loading over defence

A consortium backed by San Francisco 49ers president and Leeds United chairman Paraag Marathe is said to be looking to take a controlling stake in Rangers. (Photo by Mark Runnacles/Getty Images)

San Francisco 49ers in Rangers takeover talks

President Donald Trump has said he believes the US will gain control of Greenland, after showing renewed interest in acquiring the autonomous Danish territory in recent weeks

Letter: NI could do worse than become the 51st state

President Trump has consigned radical transgender ideology to the grave. He has already ordered federal women's prisons to be limited to actual biological women, with biological men sent back to men's prisons

Letter: ​Transgender ideology is poisoning young minds

Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 5 2024.

Watch: When is Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony?

Applegreen has confirmed that its five petrol filling stations in Northern Ireland will not be part of the deal to sell nearly 100 filling stations to a UK operator of filling stations and convenience stores. Credit: Applegreen

Applegreen confirms Northern Ireland sites excluded from sale to UK operator

Grover Cleveland, who was from Ulster-Scots roots, was the only president before Donald Trump to serve two non-consecutive terms

​Second term for Donald Trump emulates Grover Cleveland, the ‘veto president’

Coleraine FC have confirmed the signing of Paddy Burns on a loan deal until the end of the season. (Photo: David Cavan/Coleraine FC)

Coleraine chief Dean Shiels 'delighted' to land services of Paddy Burns

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Editorial: Israel shutting its embassy in Dublin is a very welcome move

Northern Ireland manager Michael O’Neill. (Photo by Philip Magowan/Press Eye)

Northern Ireland discover 2026 World Cup qualifying opponents

Northern Ireland have now discovered their 2026 World Cup qualifying group opponents after the draw was conducted in Switzerland on Friday.

Johnny Morton

Jim Allister has support from all unionist MPs and support from parties across the Commons for his bill to remove the Irish Sea border.

MPs to debate Jim Allister's bill to remove the Irish Sea border

Norbrook Holdings Ltd, a leading veterinary pharmaceuticals group based in Northern Ireland, has reported a positive financial performance for the fiscal year 2024, with an increase in global sales order intake and a notable rise in net profit, despite a slight decline in overall revenue

NI veterinary pharmaceuticals firm posts decrease in sales revenue to £219m

Billy Kennedy, who joined the News Letter in November 1974, looks through old News Letter files. Pic: Bernie Brown.

Billy Kennedy: My 50 years at the News Letter - informing and entertaining

Lurgan-born John Greer Dill was an important bridge in UK-American relations during the Second World War

Churchill loathed ​John Dill, but Roosevelt was an admirer

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

Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives with former first lady Melania Trump and son Barron Trump at the Palm Beach County Convention Center during an election night watch party, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Donald Trump claims victory as next US president and might win by landslide

The contenders: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

How to watch US presidential election in the UK

​Rev David McMillan, Free Presbyterian Church

Thought for the week: Stark truths of the Christian gospel

Trump at the Catholic Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation event in New York on Thursday. The polls underestimated him in both 2016 and 2020 (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Ben Lowry: Why I think Trump is marginal favourite to win the US presidency

Smoke rises after an Israeli strike targets the southern suburbs in Beirut. Globally, however, it would seem, the balance is against wars, writes Louis Shawcross

Letter: Pressure must be on to reject wars

Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 last week, is the first US president to live long enough to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his inauguration

Jimmy Carter, devout Christian and Washington outsider who became US president

​​Jimmy Carter served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

Gordon Lucy

​Rev David McMillan, Free Presbyterian Church

Thought for the week: Consumed with zeal for the work of God

The Stormont Executive is aiming to secure the restoration of direct flights from Northern Ireland to the United States with a proposal for a pre-clearance facility

Stormont Executive aiming to secure restoration of direct transatlantic route

A Florida surgeon mistakenly removed a patient's liver instead of his spleen, causing him to die, his family have claimed. (Photo: Pexels/Pixabay)

Man reportedly dies after Florida surgeon removes wrong organ

Morning View

Editorial: Veterans in Northern Ireland don't get the protection they do in GB

Morning View

Editorial: Supreme Court issues a welcome ruling on Shamima Begum's citizenship

Manchester United defender Victor Lindelof (left) is back in full training and set for a timely return after new signing Leny Yoro sustained an injury on their pre-season tour of the United States

Victor Lindelof returns to training to aid Man Utd's defensive options

Despite a poor performance in the recent elections in the Republic, Mary Lou McDonald’s position as party president looks secure, at least for the moment, writes Paul McElhinney

Paul McElhinney: Differing challenges facing SF might be insurmountable

Surf Select head coach Seth Swenson

WATCH: Surf Select head coach hails Northern Ireland's hospitality

US President Joe Biden speaks from the Roosevelt Room of the White House alongside Vice President Kamala Harris last week a day after former president Donald Trump survived an apparent assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Joe Biden abandons his bid to be re-elected US president, backs Kamala Harris

Donald Trump has chosen Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate in this year's US presidential election. Vance had been a bitter critic of Trump until over the past few years he gradually began to appreciate his virtues, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards

Ruth Dudley Edwards: I’ll be cheering for Trump

Over 100 jobs are at risk at the Co Trone operations of manufacturing firm Terex

Over 100 jobs to be cut at NI manufacturing giant due to industry slowdown

Newspapers being printed. Without journalists probing facts, the full story won’t be told. Media expertise has never been as important in interpreting and analysing shock events

David Montgomery: Amidst threats to democracy, journalism is as critical as ever

Morning View

Editorial: Northern Ireland enjoys yet another successful Twelfth of July

Team Europe Captain Luke Donald, alongside Rory McIlroy, lifting the Ryder Cup Trophy. PIC: Mike Egerton/PA Wire

Rory McIlroy ruled out being a playing captain at 2027 Ryder Cup

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy (left) and Scotland-born Robert MacIntyre sign autographs for fans during last year's Ryder Cup. (Photo by Andreas Solaro/AFP)

Robert MacIntyre reflects on 'incredible' Rory McIlroy shot in Scottish Open win

The absence of two Ulster-Scots, J E B Stuart and ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, was a crucial factor in Robert E Lee’s failure at the Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg was beginning of end for the Confederacy

US Marines present the colours to mark the 248th anniversary of the independence of the United States at Ardnavally Shaws Bridge, on Thursday June 27 2024, days ahead of Independence Day, July 4. Pic by Ben Lowry

WATCH: Rain fails to dampen spirits at Belfast event to mark independence of US

Building swept into Blue Earth River as Rapidan Dam suffers partial failure.

Watch: Building swept into river as dam suffers partial failure

Brian Surguy is attacked by a protective mother duck while trying to help her ducklings.

Watch: Protective mother duck attacks man trying to rescue ducklings

People watch the sun rise at the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge in Wiltshire yesterday, Friday June 21, 2024. The solstice was actually the day before this year, on June 20, not the 21st, so the celebration in the photograph was taken at the nearest dawn after the solstice. The exact moment when the north pole was tilted closest to the sun was at 9.50pm on Thursday. Pic: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: That melancholic moment when the days begin to get shorter again

Katherine Doherty and her cousin Niamh Doherty from the Ormeau Road in Belfast outside the city hall in bright daylight at just before 10pm on the longest day of the year, Thursday June 20 2024. The sun sets at 10.03pm but it is mostly bright until approaching 11pm. Pic by Ben Lowry

The days are getting shorter again in NI as we pass summer solstice

Ms Gildernew was Sinn Féin MP in Fermanagh and South Tyrone but was instructed to stand for the enormous EU five-seater Midlands-North-West European in the Republic, which runs from the Atlantic to the Irish Sea, but lost, above. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Gildernew out, now unionists should hope Cullen loses too

Ireland's Mark Adair. (Photo by Niall Carson/PA Wire)

Ireland suffer second World Cup group setback in loss to Canada

Northern Ireland artist is turning her love of pottery into a career after receiving support to grow her business. Based in Crumlin, Danielle Morgan is in her final year studying Ceramic Product Design at Belfast Met but is already well on her way to realising her dream of making a business from her passion having taken part in several exhibitions and completing numerous private commissions

Video: NI artist 'turns' her love of pottery into a successful business

Irish businessman and international rugby union player Sir Anthony John Francis O'Reilly died earlier this month

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Sir Anthony was noble crusader for free speech

Dr. Tony Novosel has received a MBE for services to Northern Ireland after dedicating 26 years to the Study USA scholarship programme. A longtime faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, he received the awarded from Dame Fionnuala Jay-O’Boyle during a recent Investiture at Hillsborough Castle

'Inspirational legend' awarded an honorary MBE for services to Northern Ireland

Daryll McNally of Limavady Single Cask Whiskey extends his gratitude to his dedicated team, the local community and public representatives whose unwavering commitment has transformed his vision into reality

Limavady Irish Whiskey ‘thrilled’ to get planning permission for £10m distillery

Leo Varadkar leaving Aras an Uachtarain in Dublin, after he tendered his resignation as taoiseach to President of Ireland Michael D Higgins.

Leo Varadkar ‘almost chickened out’ the night before resignation announcement

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