Jeffrey wins…eventually.
Leo Varadkar said Fine Gael is the party to “unify our island”.
“Our community is in a very tense situation at this moment in time.”
“So relationships are really, really bad for the Irish government as a consequence.”
“In short, I consider that it was an outrageously bad libel.”
The race between Poots and Donaldson will be decided by the party’s 8 MPs and 28 MLAs next Friday.
The shock announcement comes less than a day after four DUP MPs and 22 DUP MLAs signed a letter of no-confidence in the DUP leader.
Like her or loathe her, Arlene Foster has had an uncanny ability to survive the minefield of Stormont politics.
“For the record, our client would again categorically and emphatically deny that she has had an affair with her driver and that her marriage is a sham.”
In the week that marked the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, the loyalist violence in Belfast underlined the fact that little has changed regarding the fundamental nature of society in the north of Ireland. It is unlikely that many of the people taking part in the […]
Last night (Monday) the Stormont Assembly voted 48 to 12 in support of a Democratic Unionist Party Bill that would ban abortion of unborn children with ‘non-fatal’ disabilities. There were 27 abstentions including all of the Sinn Féin MLAs. One wonders what the party bosses in the “core group” would have ordered the sheep to […]
Disability groups in Ireland and the UK have welcomed a proposal by MLA Paul Givan which seeks to change Northern Ireland’s current abortion law on disability grounds. Currently, abortion is legal in the region for any reason up to 12 weeks, and up to 24 weeks when the mothers life is in danger – but is […]