Chris Heaton-Harris

First Minister Michelle O’Neill makes the most of her moment as Stormont Assembly recalled after two-year impasse

Sense of occasion felt throughout the Assembly Chamber as Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly acknowledged ‘historic moment’, with one lone dissenting TUV voice

Is Mary Lou McDonald just goading unionists about a united Ireland ‘within touching distance’?

There has always been a suspicion that Sinn Féin has never really wanted Northern Ireland to work, but there’s more to it than that

Northern Ireland Assembly set for return as MPs vote today on UK-DUP deal

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says there will be ‘questions’ about the deal and its effect on trading arrangements but that as things stand there are no major ‘red flags’

Stormont deal: North’s ‘integral place’ within UK and access to its internal market key to accord

Safeguarding the Union document welcomed by Rishi Sunak, Chris Heaton-Harris and Jeffrey Donaldson

DUP deal to provide ‘real change’ for North, says Donaldson, as restoration of powersharing looms

EU to ‘analyse carefully’ agreement that pledges ‘unfettered access’ to Britain while removing most post-Brexit checks on goods

What is in the new post-Brexit trade plan aimed at breaking the Stormont deadlock?

Deal will end routine checks on goods, food products and animals crossing from Britain into Northern Ireland

Deal on Stormont return includes ‘significant’ changes, while Varadkar and Sunak clash on Legacy Act

Heaton-Harris says details of deal to address DUP’s concerns over post-Brexit trade will be published on Wednesday

Jeffrey Donaldson briefs DUP executive on possible deal to end two-year powersharing boycott

A small group of protesters holding banners emblazoned with ‘Stop DUP sell-out’ gathered outside Larchfield Estate

Jeffrey Donaldson says he was threatened over Stormont negotiations - but won’t be ‘deflected’ from securing deal

DUP leader criticised ‘stirring up’ as he rounded on hardline unionists

New Stormont deadline on fresh elections if executive not formed set for February 8th

Two-year anniversary of the collapse of powersharing approaches as DUP comes under increasing pressure to end boycott of assembly

Almost 2,500 bus and train drivers planning further strike action in Northern Ireland

Latest walkout comes after mass strike by 170,000 public sector workers last week

DUP’s Stormont boycott ‘seriously scarring Northern Ireland’, Alliance MP says

SDLP’s Claire Hanna says ‘we’re all in this crazy waiting room’ while DUP’s ‘internal psychodramas’ set the pace

‘We don’t want to be here, we want to be doing our jobs’: Striking workers take to icy streets in North

Some 170,000 public sector workers in the North are staging 24-hour strike in dispute over pay increases

Northern Ireland’s public sector strike may have been doomed before it began

The trade union movement is avoiding direct criticism of the DUP. And Donaldson can’t be seen to give in on the sea border to avoid embarrassment over public sector pay

Northern Ireland comes to ‘unprecedented’ standstill as public sector workers strike

Industrial action by nurses, teachers, bus and train drivers shuts schools and suspends public transport

Ireland and Britain must work on ‘Plan B’ if DUP does not end Stormont boycott - Michelle O’Neill

A further attempt to recall Northern Ireland’s powersharing government failed on Wednesday, when the DUP did not support the nomination of a Speaker in the Northern Ireland Assembly

Northern Ireland’s massive, unprecedented strike is still not enough to turn the DUP

Always the fear that British government, with election looming, would switch off and leave North to its problems

Planned strike will have ‘profound impact’ on Northern Ireland’s health services

Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill says DUP ‘inaction’ means public sector workers in NI ‘being punished’

Northern Ireland parties meet ahead of unprecented strike by public sector workers

No breakthrough expected despite mass walkout of 170,000 workers set to close schools and reduce health and transport services

Troubles legacy legal case: Irish and UK governments may have to agree to disagree for now

Dispute will not aid relations between states but it is unlikely to worsen them as both sides seek to restore Stormont Assembly

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