Northern Ireland Protocol latest: Jeffrey Donaldson tells party he wants "clear answers" DUP leader says other parties "not only wanted the Protocol, they wanted it on steroids" Belfast Live · Mar 4, 2023
Alliance leader Naomi Long: Failure to reform Stormont destroying devolution Naomi Long said people are "sick and tired" of the "wreckers, the blockers, the wasters" Belfast Live · Mar 4, 2023
Donaldson: DUP won’t be knocked off course by rhetoric over Framework Sir Jeffrey Donaldson acknowledged improvements had been made to post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland but said questions remain. The Independent UK · Mar 4, 2023
Alliance willing to test legality of Stormont’s voting system, Naomi Long warns The party leader expressed frustration that the UK and Irish governments had not moved to deliver reform of the powersharing institutions. The Independent UK · Mar 4, 2023
Rita O'Hare: Veteran republican passes away O'Hare was arrested in 1972 for attempted murder and years later became Sinn Féin's rep in the US Belfast Live · Mar 4, 2023
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 4 March 2023 In 2016, one of our first Weekly Wraps explored the stunned aftermath of the Brexit referendum. After years of institutional failure, diplomatic faux-pas, and bad-faith policy, we are pleased to finally be able to share a rare piece of positive Brexit news. inkl Originals · Mar 4, 2023
Alliance and nationalist parties clash over Irish street signs for West Belfast Gaeltacht Council agrees "in principal" to plan for Gaeltacht Irish signage Belfast Live · Mar 3, 2023
Windsor Framework: 67% believe DUP will reject new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland - poll The party has said it will study the new post-Brexit deal against its seven tests before reaching a "collective" conclusion Belfast Live · Mar 3, 2023
Belfast Council supports creation of safe drug injection house There are between 60 and 100 vulnerable in the city centre on a daily basis using intravenous drugs Belfast Live · Mar 3, 2023
Labour leader Keir Starmer believes Windsor Framework will end Stormont deadlock Labour leader gave an address to students in Derry Belfast Live · Mar 3, 2023
Windsor Framework gives enough to end Stormont stalemate, says Starmer The Labour leader was speaking during a visit to Londonderry on Friday. The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023
No 10 gives DUP legal ‘assurances’ that Northern Ireland will remain in UK NI secretary throws lifeline to DUP leadership under pressure to reject Rishi Sunak’s revised Brexit deal The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2023
Government to reassure unionists over new Brexit deal – Heaton-Harris The Northern Ireland Secretary said new details would be given on the Stormont brake element of the Windsor Framework. The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023
Michelle O'Neill: The eyes of the world are again on us... it is time to move forward People on waiting lists cannot wait. Families facing a cost of living crisis cannot wait. Our health service and our health workers cannot wait. Belfast Live · Mar 3, 2023
Belfast Live · Mar 3, 2023 Windsor Framework: Boris Johnson criticises Rishi Sunak's new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland The former Prime Minister said he would find it "very difficult" to vote for the Windsor Framework
Belfast Live · Mar 2, 2023 Frustration over waste collections across Belfast as councillors call for new strategy The DUP Group has written to the Chief Executive of Belfast City Council calling for a new waste management strategy due to repeated missed collections
The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023 Sunak’s Brexit deal under pressure after opposition from Boris Johnson and DUP Negative comments by former PM and senior unionists suggest revised Northern Ireland protocol has not won over key figures
Belfast Live · Mar 2, 2023 Labour leader Keir Starmer due in Derry as 'peace summit' to take place The leader of the opposition will address students at John Hume's old school
Belfast Live · Mar 2, 2023 DUP issues statement after Ian Paisley says Windsor Framework does not meet party's seven tests A report from a unionist think tank involving Ian Paisley and Jamie Bryson has rejected the Windsor Framework
The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023 Boris breaks silence on Brexit and questions Sunak deal – but concedes PM has ‘momentum’ Former PM says he will find it ‘very difficult’ to vote for Windsor deal struck by Sunak
France 24 · Mar 2, 2023 Sunak’s ‘seismic’ deal resolves N. Ireland border problem – but DUP support remains elusive The Northern Irish question has caused endless headaches in Belfast, London and Brussels throughout the Brexit saga. Now analysts say the deal Prime Minister Rishi Sunak struck with the EU Commission this week offers genuine resolution of the problem. However, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)’s backing will be needed to…
The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023 New Brexit deal does not strengthen NI’s place in UK – former attorney general DUP MP Ian Paisley wrote in a new report that he did not think the Windsor Framework solved all the problems of the NI Protocol.
Wales Online · Mar 2, 2023 Sunak's Northern Ireland deal highlights the weakness of devolution to Wales | Shipton Changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol expose a significant anomaly in the UK’s devolved arrangements, argues political editor-at-large Martin Shipton
The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023 Rishi Sunak is shaping up to be a prime minister Keir Starmer should be wary of Sunak’s handling of the NI protocol suggests a leader – and a Tory party – with more left in the tank than some think, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
Belfast Live · Mar 1, 2023 Naomi Long: 'No excuse' for DUP blocking Stormont after Windsor Framework She dismissed suggestions the DUP's boycott strategy helped secure the deal, saying it was "coincidence rather than correlation"