Sinn Féin finance minister in Stormont says UK government's funding for North 'woefully inadequate'
This evening, Conor Murphy said he “cannot and will not” accept the British government’s package.
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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.
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.
The government wants to introduce minimum pricing at the same time as the North.
The DUP leader also shared her thoughts on an Irish unity poll.
A report was published today by a paramilitary watchdog.
The IRA is deemed responsible for most of the 16 murders and secret burials while the INLA was behind one of the disappearances.
The DUP leader said there is a feeling that unionist concerns about the Withdrawal Agreement are being dismissed.
The British government has assumed responsibility for introducing regulations to provide access to abortion by next April.
The first ceremonies could take place on the week of Valentine’s Day 2020.
Private members’ legislation aimed at thwarting the imposition of abortion reform in Northern Ireland were not accepted.
Other parties are calling the return to Stormont a ‘stunt’.
How and when will elected reps get to cast their vote and why is it a thorny issue for the DUP?
The move to decriminalise abortion will only be halted if the Stormont executive is restored by 21 October.
UUP leader Robin Swann announced that he was stepping down this week.
Lorenzo is currently still a post-tropical cyclone over the Atlantic but will have downgraded by the time it reaches Ireland tomorrow.
Abortion will be decriminalised in the North if the collapsed assembly is not restored by 21 October.
The DUP said it has raised the issue with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The PM and the new Northern Ireland Secretary are to meet with the five main political parties tomorrow.
Karen Bradley and Simon Coveney said they “believe that there is a genuine but narrow window of opportunity to reach agreement in the immediate period ahead”.
The executive dissolved in January 2017.
The talks are to begin following the Northern Ireland local elections.
The talks are expected to begin after Northern Ireland’s local elections.
The Northern Assembly has been shuttered for around 18,000 hours.
Northern Ireland powersharing collapsed in January 2017 following the DUP’s and Sinn Féin’s failure to agree on a number of issues.
Karen Bradley admitted she didn’t know much about the divisive political history in the North when she took up her role in January.
Michael Stone is coming to the end of a 30-year sentence for murdering six people. He is no stranger to the world of ‘performance art’.
Northern Ireland has been without a government for over a year and a half – so Westminster and Dublin are being asked to introduce new abortion laws.
The parties have varying stances on a number of issues, but have released a joint statement on their Brexit stance.