Like her or loathe her, Arlene Foster has had an uncanny ability to survive the minefield of Stormont politics.
It’s a long-held political axiom among nationalists in the north that the demographic trend would eventually put Sinn Féin in power in Northern Ireland. Because Catholics tended to have larger families they would eventually outvote unionists, or so it was commonly believed. This, of course, contributed to the sectarian violence and terrorism of unionist militias, from […]
The young adult died with a blood clot in their brain and a diminished platelet count, outcomes that authorities have recently associated as a “very rare” possible side-effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Police in Northern Ireland are investigating the deaths of two women and a man in a suspected murder-suicide in Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim.
The rate of first dose vaccination in Northern Ireland is now six times greater per head of adult population.
The former taoiseach said a border poll could take place on the 30th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
Oh, Ian: “A DUP MP has faced criticism from parliamentary counterparts after linking the IRA with Catholicism. Ian Paisley’s reference to the sectarian murder campaign by the “Catholic IRA” drew critical responses from fellow members of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. Mr Paisley was questioning Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis on legacy issues and was […]
Pat Finucane’s family were sitting down to Sunday dinner at their home in North Belfast on February 12th, 1989 when their door was smashed in by masked loyalist killers wielding sledgehammers. The gunmen then shot Finucane fourteen times in front of his wife Geraldine and his terrified children. He was 39 years old. Since that […]
What’s the world coming to when a senior Sinn Fein TD can’t even gloat about the deaths of 18 young men without people getting all upset? Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley was all in favour of praising the Warrenpoint ambush just two days ago. But now? Mary Lou has had a word, and Brian is…. […]
Mary Lou McDonald has said it is “very worrying” that lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland are to be lifted next Friday after an overnight vote in Stormont.
Schools in Northern Ireland will close for two weeks from Friday under a new “circuit breaker” lockdown to be announced by First Minister Arlene Foster today. The closure of schools is part of a range of new restrictions that the Northern Irish Government is introducing: Here it is: I've obtained a copy of the new […]
The Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont has voted against the imposition of abortion regulations by Westminster that allow for babies with disabilities to be aborted until birth. The vote was warmly welcomed by disability campaigners and pro-life groups. The Assembly debate saw Sinn Féin tying itself up in knots attempting a pretence of opposing abortion […]