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What is in the new deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol?

After months of intense negotiations and years of tensions between the UK and the EU, Rishi Sunak has agreed a deal that he hopes can bring to an end the row over the Northern Ireland Protocol. The PA news agency looks at what is in the deal and why ...

27 Feb 2023 at 19:06

Northern Ireland

O’Neill says she’s focused on Stormont delivery after four weeks of questioning

Michelle O’Neill has insisted the powersharing structures in Northern Ireland remain stable in the wake of several controversies that have hit Sinn Fein. In an apparent bid to draw a line under a difficult month for her party, the First Minister ...

25 Oct 2024 at 14:16

National News

DUP will not be ‘bullied or cajoled’ into restoring Stormont, minister hears

Unionists will not be “bullied or cajoled” into returning to powersharing, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has told the Northern Ireland Secretary. In a letter sent to Chris Heaton-Harris, seen by the PA news agency, Sir Jeffrey said the UK ...

11 Dec 2022 at 14:16

Northern Ireland

Taoiseach concerned ‘to see UK disengaging from the world’

Leo Varadkar has spoken of his concerns that the UK is “disengaging from the world”. The Taoiseach commented on language coming from the Conservative Party conference this week about leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, ...

05 Oct 2023 at 15:04

National News

Northern Ireland Secretary to meet with US leaders ahead of 25th GFA anniversary

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris 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 ...

22 Jan 2023 at 10:20

National News

British prime minister's plan to tear up Northern Ireland Protocol backed by Tories

Boris Johnson’s bid to effectively tear up parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol has cleared its first Commons hurdle, with no Tory MPs voting against it despite warnings the plans are illegal. MPs voted 295 to 221, majority 74,...

28 Jun 2022 at 11:13

National News

Data sharing between EU and UK hailed as 'positive step' in bid to resolve NI Protocol row

Progress between the EU and the UK on post-Brexit data-sharing has been hailed as a “positive step” in ongoing talks to find a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol row. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Northern Ireland ...

10 Jan 2023 at 10:56

National News

Givan defends criteria used for selecting schools for new educational programme

Stormont’s Education Minister has defended the criteria used for identifying schools that could benefit from a new programme to tackle educational underachievement and disadvantage. Paul Givan was joined by his counterpart ...

16 Oct 2024 at 17:25

National News

Concern that GB tourism agency thought ‘Ireland did not exist’

Britain’s tourism agency worked on the basis that “the island of Ireland did not exist”, a senior Stormont civil servant said in 2003. Declassified files show that Will Haire, an official in the Office of the First ...

30 Dec 2024 at 11:00

National News

Stormont leaders should focus on ‘day-to-day’ concerns not border poll – Sunak

Stormont leaders should focus on the “day-to-day” concerns of people in Northern Ireland rather than the prospect of a ballot on reunification, the Prime Minister has suggested. Rishi Sunak said “constitutional ...

05 Feb 2024 at 12:49

Northern Ireland

DUP trade concerns addressed effectively by Windsor Framework – Gove

Concerns raised by the DUP over post-Brexit trading arrangements have been addressed “effectively” by the Windsor Framework, Michael Gove has claimed. Mr Gove said his cabinet colleague Northern Ireland ...

16 Jun 2023 at 14:54

Northern Ireland

McDonald: Providing references for shamed McMonagle was ‘unforgivable’

A decision by two former Sinn Fein press officers to provide job references for a man being investigated for child sex offences is “unforgivable”, Mary Lou McDonald has said. The Sinn Fein president ...

08 Oct 2024 at 12:59

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