Minister to outline scale of reform to Northern Ireland employment legislation
Employers argue timing for many proposed measures in ‘Good Jobs’ Bill is terrible while unions say NI simply catching up on Britain and Republic
Stormont Assembly
Downsizing is fine in theory. In reality, it’s rearranging property deckchairs on the Titanic
Today’s downsizers are closer to 70 and in no mood to rewire and replaster. They want a new build, which means they’ll be outbidding younger couples on a three-bed semi
How CS Lewis’s Irish childhood influenced the Chronicles of Narnia
The author of the classic children’s stories left Belfast as a boy, but his homeland remained a powerful force in his imagination
Legacy Act appeal expected to be heard by UK Supreme Court before summer
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 is opposed by many victims’ groups
The Belfast train station signs in Irish that are testing Stormont’s shaky foundations
Row over Belfast’s Grand Central Station adding Irish to displays and ticket machines reinforces Assembly’s vulnerability to identity politics
Billions of overspend on large-scale projects in North ‘unacceptable and unsustainable’
Stormont’s Public Accounts Committee scrutinised hospitals, roads and other works
Work on Irish language signs in Belfast train station halted due to potential legal action
Plan for signs prompted dispute among Stormont Executive ministers
DUP to put ‘marker down’ at Executive against Irish language signs at Belfast’s Grand Central Station
DUP leader Gavin Robinson says installation of signage is ‘clearly a controversial matter’
Reforms that undermine Belfast Agreement will be ‘dangerous’, experts warn
Northern Ireland facing a ‘mounting list of problems in healthcare, public finance and other aspects of good governance’, new report says
Anger in Northern Ireland at welfare cuts to balance budget books
Concern in Stormont over Rachel Reeves’ spring statement as higher numbers of people rely on welfare support in NI than UK average
‘Absolute fear’: UK’s planned benefit cuts alarm vulnerable people in Northern Ireland
Labour’s proposed ‘shake-up’ of the welfare system raises the prospect of people with disabilities losing supports for their personal independence
Threatening graffiti targeting Stormont member ‘a sign of desperation’ by ‘isolated far right’
People Before Profit’s Gerry Carroll says he will not be deterred ‘by a pathetic minority who skulk around under cover of darkness’
UN calls for stronger measures to combat intimidation of migrants by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland
Committee highlights particular concerns around segregation and access to adequate housing
Stormont publishes first programme for government in over a decade
Hundred-page document outlines plans to tackle North’s spiralling waiting lists
Stormont ministers agree North’s programme for government
Ministers rubber-stamp the governance plan during a virtual meeting
A British defence spending bonanza will present Sinn Féin with a dilemma
Keir Starmer has been advised to raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP, which could be paid for by slashing social welfare
Over 60,000 birds to be slaughtered after suspected avian flu case detected in Co Tyrone
Housing orders for poultry and captive birds to come into effect across Ireland from midnight
Trump may just have put an end to peace process absurdities
Trump has transformed expectations of what can be done, even if his administration ultimately fails to deliver it
Sinn Féin reshuffles Stormont front bench following Conor Murphy’s election to Seanad
Labour is ‘more engaged’ with devolved institutions than Tories, Stormont’s First Minister says
Architecture of the Belfast Agreement is dying of disinterest
There are worse fates for the agreement than fading into irrelevance, but it would be dangerous not to acknowledge this is happening
‘It’s the sort of thing you can’t believe has happened’: Tree crashes on Derry home during Storm Éowyn
About 56,000 households in North were without electricity at 4.30pm on Monday afternoon, according to Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) Networks
Northern Ireland weather: Over 240,000 homes and businesses without power due to Storm Éowyn
Red warning in effect until 2pm with schools closed and tens of thousands of properties without power
UK government refuses unionist request to use post-Brexit Stormont Brake
DUP leader Gavin Robinson accuses UK government of ‘surrendering to EU diktats’
Conor Murphy’s puzzling move to the Seanad crystallises sense of an unsettled Stormont
Sinn Féin says Murphy will use his new position to advance ‘Irish unity debate in the Oireachtas’, yet he has vastly more scope to do so as a Stormont Minister
Mary Lou McDonald pays tribute to republican ‘patriot’ Ted Howell during funeral service
McDonald, Michelle O’Neill and Gerry Adams took turns carrying strategist and negotiator’s coffin to Belfast cemetery
On the waterways of Ireland: A quiet success of peace on the island
Some 800,000 people made cross-Border journeys by cruiser, bicycle or foot - a story that Waterways Ireland’s chief John McDonagh says must be told more
Seanad bid by Conor Murphy a large blow to Sinn Féin’s Stormont operation
Regarded as a shoo-in for the Seanad post, the current economy minister will quit his job in the Assembly once elected
Fears new UK citizenship ceremonies with flags could damage NI community relations
Blair-era pledge of giving ‘my loyalty to the United Kingdom’ faced concerns in wake of Belfast Agreement
Stormont staggers on, mostly because no one can agree on an alternative
Preference for a united Ireland has risen from a quarter to a third. Support for direct rule is about 15%, while 10% want an independent Northern Ireland
Stormont votes to retain some EU trade laws post-Brexit for Northern Ireland
Rules will continue to serve as a means of maintaining an invisible Border on the island for further four years
Assembly members to vote on extending Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading deal
MLAs are expected to continue measures, opposed by some unionists, for four years
Loyalist activist’s legal challenge to Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading rules vote dismissed
Application by Jamie Bryson for leave for judicial review against Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn rejected in emergency hearing at Belfast High Court
For flax sake: why is the idea of a new flag for Northern Ireland so controversial?
The flax plant might be bland and its symbolism trite, but the same could be said of the Tricolour
North’s sports minister has ‘no objection’ to attending GAA match amid row over Casement funding
DUP minister Gordon Lyons plays down reports of ‘tetchy’ meeting with GAA president Jarlath Burns
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