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Following the DUP’s announcement to resign the First Minister position , TUV leader Jim Allister has stated “it’s about time!” Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “About time” is TUV’s primary response to the DUP’s announcement of the resignation of the First Minister. “TUV has long said key to getting rid of the Union-dismantling Protocol was ending […]
UUP leader Doug Beattie has slammed the DUP for resigning the First Minister role plunging Stormont into crisis. UUP Leader Doug Beattie MC MLA said: “Northern Ireland is facing another manufactured crisis. This is a crisis brought about by party political interests. This crisis will have one effect and that will be the instability of […]
Speaking on the DUP’s collapsing Stormont, Aontú leader and Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has slammed the political games being played by the DUP to boost their collapsing poll numbers. Deputy Tóibín stated “The DUP have misjudged every step of way during this Brexit Crisis. The DUP are a Case Study in political self-harm. […]
SDLP Upper Bann MLA Dolores Kelly has said that the actions of the DUP Leadership amount to a ‘gross betrayal’ of families across Northern Ireland who are struggling to provide for their children, heat their homes and deal with the cost of living. SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood MP and Deputy Leader Minister Nichola Mallon MLA have written […]
According to the BBC’s Nolan show this morning. The DUP are to announce the resignation of Paul Givan from the role of First Minister. As with current legislation this resignation would automatically trigger the resignation of the Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neil. The move has raised questions over legislation, bills needing passed through the Executive […]
SDLP Upper Bann MLA Dolores Kelly said it is unbelievable there was £100m unallocated in the Assembly’s January monitoring round as families struggle with the cost of living crisis. Mrs Kelly said Sinn Féin Finance Minister Conor Murphy has failed people who are in need, with the money now at risk of being returned to […]
The Good Friday Agreement Committee in the Oireachtas is to write to each of the other Oireachtas Committees to request that they allow elected MPs from the North of Ireland speaking rights on their Committees. Aontú Leader and Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín made the proposal at the Good Friday Committee. He stated; “Currently the […]
Responding to the British Ambassador’s refusal to appear before the Oireachtas Good Friday Committee, Aontú Leader & Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín and Aontú Candidate for East Derry, Gemma Brolly, criticised the Ambassador’s response to concerns over his government’s copper-fastening of partition. Rep Brolly: “The Tory Government are brazenly bolstering partition by construction, with their […]
The Stormont Executive seems determined to add to the pressures and the indignity already experienced by thousands of women and girls every month. Instead of getting on with placing free period products in schools, colleges, universities and other public places government departments are fighting amongst themselves over who should be responsible for it.More than a […]
Upper Bann DUP MP Carla Lockhart has called on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, to shelve plans to raise National Insurance Contributions scheduled to take effect from 1st April 2022. The MP made the call in a letter to the Chancellor, urging the change in policy to support working families and ‘squeezed middle’ […]
On foot of votes at Derry & Strabane Council, Aontú Deputy Leader & Cllr for Mid Ulster Denise Mullen has hit out at the embrace of the British monarchy by the SDLP and the abstention of Sinn Féin at the Derry & Strabane Council vote on the motion. Cllr Mullen: “It is puzzling how on […]
Dundalk TD Ruairí Ó Murchú used his speaking time at the Conference on the Future of Europe session in Strasbourg last week to highlight issues that the EU needs to focus on including violence against women, the scourge of illegal drugs and mental health. The Sinn Féin TD also extended an invitation to European Commission […]
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