DUP

Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson said ‘progress’ was being made with UK government addressing its concerns with post-Brexit trading arrangements

Jeffrey Donaldson said he would ‘suspend judgment’ for now on whether chief constable should resign over debacle

To succeed he must win the debate that devolution, albeit imperfect, is preferable to the alternatives

Water privatisation and water charging have been hanging over Northern Ireland since the first lengthy Stormont collapse

Northern Secretary visited Belfast as powersharing boycott over post-Brexit trade drags on

Northern Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said he was confident controversial legislation would receive royal assent in early autumn

Leaders of several parties respond to online video show recruitment poster being removed by republican group members

€1bn ‘slush fund’ has overcome initial suspicions from unionism – but republicans think it falls short when it comes to aspirations for a united Ireland

Catholic bishop says anyone who needs information on abortion should Google it. The DUP is taking a harder line. It all points to one thing: a row is brewing

Northern Ireland Secretary says the instruction to civil servants is to provide information to a future Executive

Sinn Féin MP gives keynote speech at South Armagh Volunteers Commemoration amid criticism by DUP and Tánaiste

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly signed off €10m investment in response to Stormont budget cuts

East Belfast MP defeated Ulster Bann MLA Jonathan Buckley in victory seen as a boost for party leader Jeffrey Donaldson

Jeffrey Donaldson has said DUP will not return to powersharing until UK government legislates to address concerns around sovereignty and trade

Sinn Féin is struggling to fit current events into the Irish republican world view, where unionists might be bad but Britain is always worse, and a British Tory government is worst of all

Tánaiste among those to criticise Sinn Féin MP John Finucane’s planned attendance at event this weekend

Regulations means sexual and reproductive health education will be compulsory part of school education - but move criticised by DUP MP

A Sinn Féin government in Dublin might settle for an enhanced consultative role while cranking up the optics

Sinn Féin has abandoned both anti-capitalism and the principle of making Northern Ireland unworkable, adopting economic policies that are not much to the left of the Republic’s mainstream

Why would pragmatic middle-ground voters want to change a successful Northern Ireland? Ironically, the party that is currently undermining that prospect most is the DUP

Sinn Féin vice-president calls on UK and Dublin governments to come together after party’s historic win in NI council elections

Veteran nationalist politician reflects on the progress made since referendums, North and South, were passed endorsing the landmark Belfast Agreement peace deal a quarter-century ago this week

The party gained 39 seats to return 144 councillors, making it the largest entity in local government in the North

Greens suffer biggest political casualty with party leader Mal O’Hara losing seat

Vote will put pressure on DUP to return to Stormont but there are bigger problems ahead for unionism

O’Neill says result shows boycott of Stormont Assembly by DUP ‘cannot go on’

Party vice-president and first minister designate Michelle O’Neill repeats call for Stormont Assembly and Executive to be restored in wake of victory

Former UUP leader calls for ‘fundamental realignment of unionism’ as voter turnout reaches 54.71%

A total of 462 councillors are due to be elected in 11 council areas.

It may become the first nationalist party to hold most seats at council level

Sinn Féin deputy leader took action against DUP’s John Carson for comments made on Facebook

Some opinion polls put the DUP and Sinn Féin tantalisingly close in Northern Ireland local elections

DUP watching if Stormont stance pays off; Sinn Féin looking to become largest party; Alliance surge may be at expense of UUP and SDLP

Leo Varadkar met British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during fourth Council of Europe summit in Iceland

Those who believe that deeper change is required will need to demonstrate that we are capable of building it

Twenty-five years after the Belfast Agreement, the dreary constitutional question still eclipses every other issue

With Stormont on hiatus for more than a year, Sinn Féin and Alliance will seek to gain while DUP tries to hold

Somehow the UUP can’t seem to capitalise on the DUP’s multi-year Brexit fiasco and epic leadership contest meltdown

Former Taoiseach says DUP concerns on Windsor Framework are ‘sincere and need to be addressed’

Unionists were wavering and the future uncertain when Stephen Grimason revealed the deal on Good Friday 1998