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Sunday 25 October 2020
That’s according to Andrew McCormick, Stormont’s lead official on EU exit.
Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill announced the new measures this evening.
DUP leader Arlene Foster welcomed the admission, which she said caused “deep hurt and anger”.
Northern Ireland’s Minister for Health said that measures may be taken on localised or region-wide scales.
Jennifer McNern is taking a judicial review case against the Northern Ireland Executive.
There is interoperability with the Republic of Ireland’s Covid-19 contact tracing app.
Michelle O’Neill and Arlene Foster will write to Micheál Martin and Boris Johnson to make the request.
Paula Bradshaw is going to a resort in Italy with her family next week.
Michelle O’Neill was criticised after attending a service for the former IRA prisoner this week.
From Monday, a much broader range of retailers in England will also open their doors.
The UK government’s Brexit deal means checks are needed at ports in Northern Ireland.
The idea was backed by Sinn Féin and the Alliance Party, but opposed by the DUP and UUP.
Large outdoor-based retailers such as garden centres will be permitted to reopen in the first step.
Stormont leaders also confirmed that the North’s Covid-19 infection rate is still too high to ease restrictions.
A total of 193 deaths relating to Covid-19 now been recorded in Northern Ireland.
The DUP leader said that the North took its own decision to close schools from next week.
First Minister Arlene Foster said “these are unprecedented times”.
Disagreement on the matter is also causing a rift between Sinn Féin and the DUP.
First Minister Arlene Foster has backed the UK-wide strategy to keep public institutions open for now.
The report will examine the role of DUP leader Arlene Foster, who presided over the department that introduced the RHI scheme.
O’Neill also spoke of the misogyny she has witnessed as a female politician and her dreams of a United Ireland.
“We have been told this planned attack could happen anywhere in the north,” deputy first minister Michelle O’Neill said.
Breege Quinn is holding talks with political parties at Stormont today.
The leaders of the five main parties said they would seek to have the pay rise deferred.
The voted was about whether to refuse legislative consent to the Brexit agreement.
Emma DeSouza says that the UK interprets the right to identify as Irish “as akin to being a GAA supporter or country music fan”.
This evening, Conor Murphy said he “cannot and will not” accept the British government’s package.
The UK Prime Minister was urged to follow through on funding commitments to Northern Ireland during his visit today.
Declan Kearney says there is a landmark opportunity to ‘advance the debate on constitutional change’.
A new powersharing deal was agreed by the North’s main parties last night.
The Stormont executive will now sit tomorrow after a three-year impasse.
The new deal is a balanced approach that can get the parliament up and running, the Tánaiste writes.
The tánaiste and secretary of state for Northern Ireland were speaking following days of intense talks.
Three years to the day since the collapse of the Assembly, the Sinn Féin leader in the North said talks are still “a work in progress”.
The five main parties in Northern Ireland will be urged to sign up to the document tabled by the UK and Irish governments.
UUP leader Steven Aiken said he was unsure of how close the parties were to a deal.
Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
A snap election could be called if a deal is not reached by 13 January.
The Government of Ireland Act was passed in December 1920.
The Northern Assembly has been shuttered for nearly three years and all previous attempts to restore it have collapsed.
WE’RE LESS THAN a week out from the scariest night of the year.
Halloween will look somewhat different this year but there’s nothing stopping us breaking out the box of decorations, throwing on a witch’s hat and doing up the outside of the house.
Cobwebs, ghouls and goblins, a scary pumpkin, there’s plenty of inspiration around at the moment as more and more people gear up for the 31st.
This morning, we want to know: Have you decorated your house for Halloween?
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Richard Nairns details some of what he discovered when he moved to Ned’s Wood in Co Wicklow.
Some sun, a shower in spots in the p.m.
Max: 11 °C
Min: 7 °C
Winds subsiding with a couple of showers
Max: 12 °C
Min: 5 °C
Clouds breaking, rain ending; breezy
Max: 11 °C
Min: 6 °C
