The first part of the parade was followed by a series of speeches, mainly from members of the Orange Order. Lockhart was the only politician to take to the stage, where she repeated her challenge to the DUP leadership: “Profound consequences must mean profound consequences. Michelle ...
On Wednesday, the secretary of state told the House of Commons there had to be “political accountability for finances”, and that he wanted to be able to settle the issue with the executive. The government is due to publish its own budget next week, with Prime Minister Andy Burn...
Jeffrey Donaldson is to be interviewed by London filth about an alleged rape of a woman inside the Houses of Parliament, the BBC can reveal. The disgraced former MP has been accused of raping the woman in Westminster in 2016, at the very heart of the political establishment. It is understo...
Speaking to BBC Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster programme Brian Stack’s son, Austin Stack, said the apology “means an awful lot to us”. “It’s a great sense of comfort, to particularly my mother and to myself and my two brothers, because the state is o...
The chair of Stormont’s economy committee, Democratic Unionist Party assembly member Phillip Brett, said a further cut in university funding could mean that the universities would not receive money for three months for students they have already enrolled. “The universities have...
Last week the government published a series of amendments, including a requirement for the attorney general to provide consent for any serious prosecutions. The government said its amendments “significantly reduce” the prospect of military veterans facing “rinse and repea...
New Labour’s North of Ireland Troubles Bill will return to the House of Commons later on Monday for hours of debate before MPs vote on proposed changes to the legislation. Last week, the government published hundreds of amendments, including that the attorney general must provide con...
On Tuesday, Finance Minister John O’Dowd laid out his position in the assembly. “Pressures across departments in the current financial year are around £1.6bn. The offer that is currently on the table is around £525m. “Public sector pay alone is £500m or thereabouts, and a...
Donaldson represents a “very complex challenge to the Northern Ireland Prison Service”, Acheson added. “There are always hierarchies within prisons – and there are even hierarchies within sex offenders – and the lowest of the low and the most vulnerable in ter...
Homes in Stanhope Street have been evacuated, with police cordons in place as Army bomb experts carry out an investigation. Nugent said: “I was just woke up with an explosion at just after three o’clock. [I] jumped up, trying to get the kids out. “There was so much smoke ...