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DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is awaiting action from the Government over long-running talks to address unionist concerns on post-Brexit trading arrangements.
Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Reports Donaldson and Heaton-Harris cancel US trip

Conor Washington playing for Northern Ireland. PIC: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

Conor Washington has no plans to retire from Northern Ireland duty

Conor Washington hopes he can make a big impression for Northern Ireland against Solvenia

Conor Washington hoping to be goal hero for Northern Ireland

The DUP wants to set the record straight with US President Biden's administration. Photo credit: Niall Carson/PA Wire

DUP: Unionists wants to ensure Washington knows what Sinn Fein's real agenda is

Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill during a visit to Washington on March 16. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

SF go to Washington to urge US to press UK government for Stormont restoration

Morning View

Editorial: Report findings on procurement flag shortcomings at Stormont

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveil their deal at Windsor Guildhall on February 27, 2023. The framework shares many similarities with the GFA, not least in sharing common opponents. The NI Protocol is now done and dusted. London, Brussels, Dublin and Washington are happy (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Letter: Unionists have indeed made concessions, but so have all sides in NI

Toddler becomes ‘intruder’ as they crawl through White House fence

Geraldine O’Doherty, while a University of Ulster student, was on placement as an intern at the US Department of Foreign Affairs in 1986. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2314GS – 08

Joe Biden is a lovely Southern gentleman says Northern Ireland woman

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the idea that the collapse of the powersharing institutions had fuelled violence 'doesn’t stack up'

Stormont political vacuum not to blame for increased terror threat – Donaldson

President Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden will have one official engagement in NI, report suggests

Florida aquarium to release orca after over 50 years in captivity

Tina McKenzie, FSB UK Chair of Policy and Advocacy calls on the Prime Minister to 'demand of his Ministers and officials that any checks and processes required by the Windsor Framework do nothing to damage Northern Ireland’s integral part of the UK’s internal market and the whole machinery of government must resist the practice of ‘gold plating’ regulations. If he plays his part, then so will Northern Ireland’s businesses, and we will all reap the benefit'

WF 'definitive route map towards the sunny uplands of a prosperous NI economy'

Mary Rose Burke, chief executive, Dublin Chamber, Stephen O’Leary, president, Dublin Chamber, Gillian McAuley, president, NI Chamber and Ann McGregor, chief executive, NI Chamber in Washington D.C., last week

View from the Chair: Advantage and opportunity for NI

The DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, standing second from right, and UUP Leader Doug Beattie with the SDLP leader Colum Eastwood and Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill during a St Patrick's Day celebration reception at the White House in Washington. You would think unionists should be in such intense discussions with their own government about the Irish Sea border that they would have little time for anything else

Owen Polley: A week of Paddywhackery has distracted DUP from Windsor deal

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson at the annual "Friends of Ireland Luncheon" hosted by Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, during Taoiseach Leo Varadkar's visit to the US for St Patrick's Day.
Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Jeffrey tells Biden: We’ll take our time on Windsor Framework
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has told US President Joe Biden that his party will take its time to assess the validity of the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland.

Majority Leader of the US Senate Chuck Schumer speaking at the Ireland Funds 31st National Gala. National Building Museum, in Washington, DC, ahead of St Patrick's Day, on Wednesday. Michael Palmer writes: "At the dinner he referred to ‘the North’. I should not need to point out that language in politics is used in legitimisation" Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Letter: Please show respect for UK sovereignty over NI, Senator Schumer

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaks to the media at Howard University Campus in Washington, DC, during his visit to the US for St Patrick's Day. Picture date: Thursday March 16, 2023.

Varadkar apologises for Clinton-Lewinsky scandal remarks

US / UK flags

DUP squad heads to USA to lobby Washington figures as Joe Biden mulls NI visit

US Senator George Mitchell co-chaired the all-party talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement

Paul McElhinney: Power vacuum: Why is the Ulster Scots’ message not heard in US?

David McNarry left with David Trimble and other Ulster Unionists at the signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1998. Mr McNarry does not want the 25th anniversary to be used to place the Northern Ireland Protocol alongside the deal. "Showboating the protocol isn’t on, given the damage it’s done to a deal the I was proud to back," he writes

Beware NIO plans to use Belfast Agreement anniversary to project protocol

NI Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris

Unionists urge Heaton-Harris to challenge US officials during five-day visit

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, who will meet political and business stakeholders during a visit to the US. Mr Heaton-Harris is leaving on Sunday for the five-day trip to Washington, Boston and New York during which he will also attempt to drum up investment opportunities for Northern Ireland. Issue date:

NI Secretary to meet with business and political leaders during US trip

Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter sued for alleged rape and sexual battery of autistic 17-year-old fan

Nick Carter sued for alleged rape and sexual battery of 17-year-old

Kwasi Kwarteng.

Kwasi Kwarteng sacked by Prime Minister Liz Truss

Kwasi Kwarteng has cut his trip to the International Monetary Fund in Washington, USA short.

Will Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announce a budget U-turn today?

An FBI ‘wanted’ image from the disorder at the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021

Ian Ellis: Proper Christianity had nothing to do with January 6 pro-Trump riot
The term ‘Christian nationalism’ has been invoked in connection with last year’s January 6 storming of Washington’s Capitol Building, the seat of the US House of Representatives and Senate.

The Watergate office building in Washington - now the Watergate Hotel.

Every day I walked through history working at the Watergate building

Arlene Foster

Foster plea to US in ‘planter’ row

File photo dated 21/05/1982 of steel helmets abandoned by Argentine armed forces who surrendered at Goose Green to British Falklands Task Force troops. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Sunday March 18, 2012. Thirty years ago the Falkland Islands suddenly went from being a forgotten corner of what remained of the British Empire to a dramatic test of the UK's global power status. The remote group of boggy, windswept islands in the South Atlantic, whose 1,800 human inhabitants were vastly outnumbered by sheep, became a battleground between the ambitions of Argentina's military junta and the steely determination of Margaret Thatcher. Simmering diplomatic tensions over the ownership of the Falklands boiled over in the spring of 1982 and Argentine forces invaded the islands they call the Malvinas. In response, Britain launched its biggest naval operation since the Second World War, sending a task force of 27,000 personnel and more than 100 ships to retake the territory. Lasting just 74 days, the Falklands War

Commons pledge on use of force against island invaders (1982)

Letter to the editor

Boris maybe trying to show EU that despite Brexit UK is ally of empire building

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Jim Allister with a defaced poster of Doug Beattie, during last Friday's rally against the protocol in Lurgan. The accusation lundy was levelled at Ruth over a tweet she wrote about the poster, which showed a noose around the neck of the Ulster Unionist leader

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Compromise does not make a unionist a Lundy

Samuel Morse’s invention of the long-distance telegraph completely overshadowed his talents as a portrait painter

Personal tragedy inspired Samuel Morse to invent the long-distance telegraph

Screengrab from White House broadcast

Joe Biden tells St Patrick’s Day gathering: I may be Irish but I’m not stupid

File photo dated 13/3/2022 of Taoiseach Micheal Martin who has tested positive for Covid-19 while in Washington for the St Patrick's Day celebrations. Issue date: Thursday March 17, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story IRISH US. Photo credit should read: James Manning/PA Wire

Taoiseach Michael Martin self-isolating in Washington after testing positive

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UUP leader Doug Beattie speaks to the media at Tandragee before leading a UUP delegation to Brussels tomorrow to engage with EU officials about the Protocol

Doug Beattie too sick to fulfil St Patrick’s Day travel plans says UUP

Meeting on Capitol Hill in early December between the Ulster Unionist Party and members of the US Congress. From left Representative Mike Kelly, Representative Mary Gay Scanlon, Representative Richard Neal
Chairman of WaysMeansCmte and UUP leader Dough Beattie MLA and former leader Mike Nesbitt MLA

The tag ‘We Ourselves’ applies to insular unionists more than to Sinn Fein

Northern Ireland manager manager and captain Steve Davis applaud the fans after the 0-0 draw against Italy in Belfast.

Northern Ireland boss Ian Baraclough hails 'spot on' performance against Italy

News Letter editorial

The UK needs to lobby leaders in Washington as hard as Ireland does

Dale Taylor training with Northern Ireland. Pic by PressEye Ltd.

Northern Ireland striker Conor Washington ‘really impressed’ with Dale Taylor

Northern Ireland'’s Conor Bradley in a post match interview after the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifying match at Windsor Park, Belfast.

Conor Bradley is shining light for Northern Ireland boss Ian Baraclough

The Ulster Scots group in Knoxville pictured on September 11 2001. In the middle in a blue shirt holding the document is the late Lord Laird, his wife Carol to the right of him. Above them, the bearded man is George Holmes, who was culture director at Ulster Scots Agency. Billy Kennedy is partly obscured behind the man in the hat, his wife Sally is in white trousers immediately to the left of the man with hat. Sally died on Thursday

Billy Kennedy: I think America the world’s greatest nation and was there on 9/11

Northern Ireland striker Conor Washington

Belief is still high says Conor Washington

Do you have any traditions to mark the start of a new month? (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is why people say 'white rabbit' on the 1st of a new month

Northern Ireland boss Ian Baraclough during Monday's training session. Pic by PressEye Ltd.

Shayne Lavery’s ‘got the tools’ for Northern Ireland boss Ian Baraclough

Accrington Stanley striker Dion Charles

Dion Charles ‘fully deserves’ Northern Ireland call – Ian Baraclough

Front cover of Ulster Parade

Black-out booklet might help brighten bleak lockdown blues

Trump supporters storm the US Capitol building after a rally by the president on January 6. Michael Palmer says: "Even if one accepts Trump did not intend for the riots to happen, he did not turn down their rhetoric when he saw his supporters enraged"

It is right to impeach Donald Trump after disgraceful scenes in Washington

The 1985 rally against the Anglo Irish Agreement in Belfast city centre, which led to scenes of disorder

Street protests sadly do not work because bad actors get involved

Letter to the editor

Norman Houston was steeped in love for Northern Ireland

Norman Houston, who was director of the Northern Ireland Bureau in Washington DC from 2007 to 2019

Michelle O’Neill: Norman Houston was an excellent ambassador to Washington

Donald Trump has been blocked from Twitter and Facebook after Capitol riots - he...

US troops involved in urban fighting in Seoul during the Korean War

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Gravity of the situation in Korea in plain sight

Ballina, Co Mayo, the ancestral home of Joe Biden. He is sculpted from Irish republicanism, writes David McNarry. Pic Brian Lawless PA

David McNarry: Joe Biden is no friend of unionism and he will form part of an Ir...

Conor Washington

Conor Washington: Whoever gets the nod will have to produce the goods