Gary Gibbon
Tories look to increase majority with DUP deal
The Conservatives and DUP are looking into an arrangement that could increase the Tories’ working majority.
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Gary Gibbon
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Ruth Davidson’s equal marriage message to Belfast
Despite some polls showing overwhelming support for same-sex marriage, Northern Ireland remains the only country in the British Isles where it is banned.
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Liam Dutton
Spring? The temperature dropped to -8C last night
Near record-breaking cold was experienced in Northern Ireland last night. Is the recent sunshine and warmth going to return anytime soon?
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Gary Gibbon
Blair’s warning over on-the-runs: peace process ‘still fragile’
Tony Blair agrees, after several months, to give evidence to the Northern Ireland select committee over “on the run” letters sent to dozens of people.
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Jon Snow
Ian Paisley, one bride, and four political enemies
It was the mid-1970s. In my taxi, alongside Ian Paisley, I’d got a clean sweep of some of Northern Ireland’s most hostile political rivals.
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Gary Gibbon
The implications of Gerry Adams’ arrest
Whether or not the Sinn Fein leader is charged over the case of a mother of ten abducted and murdered by the IRA in 1972, the implications could be far-reaching.
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Alex Thomson
Historical Enquiries Team exposes Northern Ireland collusion
Elements of the police and the British army were working hand in glove with the UVF to murder people with no paramilitary connection whatsoever during the Troubles.
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Alex Thomson
Bloody Sunday: justice has no time limit
There is nothing political at all in pursuing the needs of justice: this is a simple legal matter, which must take its course – and justice must never become the hostage of time.
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Jon Snow
Seamus Heaney: a great poet, full of light and life
To meet the poet Seamus Heaney, whose death has been announced at the age of 74, was to encounter an extension of his poetry: full of light and life.
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Alex Thomson
Belfast flag protests: cause and effect
After weeks of protest over the flying the union flag, Belfast is trying to come to terms with its full impact – not just on the economy but on everyday life.
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Alex Thomson
Belfast riots: start with the geography, then follow the money
With violence escalating in Belfast, Alex Thomson looks at a city of flashpoints, where loyalists and republican areas run up against each, and asks who is behind the recent protests.
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Regional jobs blog: N.Ireland
Ann McGregor, NI Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive, outlines the Chamber’s plan to create 94,000 jobs by 2020 – andexplains why training and support for young people is key to the region’s growth.
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Gary Gibbon
Paisley rushed to hospital with respiratory problems
Members of Ian Paisley’s family are gathered at the hospital where he’s in intensive care. It’s understood he was rushed there with serious heart problems.
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Liam Dutton
The first snow of winter
Northern parts of the UK woke up to their first snow of the winter yesterday.
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Jon Snow
Ireland: United it stands?
There’s prosperity in Londonderry, Belfast and in so many of Northern Ireland’s towns and villages that throughout the Troubles was for ever absent.
