# dup - Tuesday 17 May, 2022
# Assembly Elections
# Assembly Elections
Emma DeSouza ran in the recent Stormont elections – she didn’t win but she shares her thoughts on it all.
# dup - Monday 16 May, 2022
# Across The Irish Sea
Johnson made clear that he did not favour scrapping the Protocol, and instead wanted to secure changes to it. DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the Prime Minister will be judged on his actions and not his words over the Protocol. Sinn Féin Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill said the Protocol "is here to stay" following a meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin.
# dup - Sunday 15 May, 2022
# Stormont
# Stormont
Boris Johnson will meet the main Stormont parties tomorrow in a bid to break the deadlock on returning to power-sharing arrangements.
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
The Foreign Affairs Minister said Ireland is “frustrated” and “dealing with the consequences now of a decision by the British people on our own country”.
# dup - Saturday 14 May, 2022
# Sinn Féin
# Sinn Féin
Nobody should be “spooked by the actions of the British government”, McDonald said.
# dup - Friday 13 May, 2022
# Northern Ireland
The DUP leader is refusing to sit in Stormont until issues around the Northern Ireland Protocol are resolved. Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said the party are "disgracefully holding the public to ransom for their Brexit mess". The UK Government has indicated that it is set to override parts of the post-Brexit agreement.
# dup - Thursday 12 May, 2022
# DUP
# DUP
Emma Little-Pengelly has been elected in the Lagan Valley constituency in Donaldson’s place.
# dup - Sunday 8 May, 2022
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said it would be unacceptable for the DUP to refuse to form a new Stormont executive with a nationalist First Minister, following a historic election in Northern Ireland.
# Assembly Election
# Assembly Election
British Secretary of State Brandon Lewis is set to meet with the leaders of the Stormont parties tomorrow.
# dup - Saturday 7 May, 2022
# Assembly Election
# Assembly Election
Sinn Féin remains firmly on course to emerge as the largest Stormont party.
# dup - Friday 6 May, 2022
# Assembly Election
# Assembly Election
The Sinn Féin vice-president and the leaders of the DUP and Alliance Party were all elected on the first count in their constituencies.
# Stormont
# Stormont
Sinn Féin Vice President Michelle O’Neill said it would be “absolutely unfathomable” that a new Executive would not be formed after today.
# Stormont Vote Count
# Stormont Vote Count
Peter Flanagan says the election in Northern Ireland has shown that Loyalist and British values are no longer the same.
# dup - Thursday 5 May, 2022
# Stormont
# Stormont
The process will elect 90 MLAs to the devolved Stormont Assembly, with 239 candidates running.
# dup - Wednesday 4 May, 2022
# Assembly Election
# Assembly Election
Over £30,000 has been spent by the five main parties during the election campaign.
# Voting Tomorrow
# Voting Tomorrow
The former BBC correspondent says every party is playing it safe and steady ahead of tomorrow’s vote.
# dup - Monday 2 May, 2022
# Stormont Elections
# Stormont Elections
The leaders of the five largest parties in Northern Ireland participated in the UTV Election Debate show.
# dup - Sunday 1 May, 2022
# Stormont
# Stormont
Rallies took place in Ballymena, Co Antrim, and Bangor, Co Down, on Saturday in opposition to the post-Brexit protocol.
# dup - Friday 29 April, 2022
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
The latest LucidTalk poll puts 26% of support for Sinn Féin, ahead of 20% for the DUP .
# dup - Thursday 21 April, 2022
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
The DUP leader was addressing a rally against the protocol in Castlederg.
# dup - Tuesday 12 April, 2022
# Assembly
# Assembly
The former NI health minister told the BBC Nolan Show that he could not support the DUP ’s Assembly candidate in South Down.
# dup - Tuesday 5 April, 2022
# Assembly Elections
# Assembly Elections
The Sinn Fein Stormont leader said the day would come when people voted on reunification but she said her present focus was the cost-of-living crisis.
# dup - Thursday 24 March, 2022
# Ni
# Ni
Secretary of State Brandon Lewis has set out the legislative options being explored in a written ministerial statement.
# dup - Monday 14 March, 2022
# First Minister
# First Minister
Jeffrey Donaldson has urged Executive parties to focus on efforts to release £300m to ease the cost of living crisis.
# dup - Thursday 10 March, 2022
# Stormont
# Stormont
Sinn Fein Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill described ‘a very forthright and very robust exchange’ at a meeting of party leaders on Thursday.
# dup - Monday 21 February, 2022
# RIP
# RIP
DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the party was still in shock following the sudden death of the father of four.
# dup - Thursday 17 February, 2022
# Protocol
# Protocol
Donaldson said unionism is ‘rapidly losing faith’ that a negotiated solution can be found on the trading arrangements.
# dup - Tuesday 15 February, 2022
# Stormont Crisis
# Stormont Crisis
The draft budget had proposed a 10% cash increase to health spending.
# dup - Saturday 12 February, 2022
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
DUP Leader Jeffrey Donaldson has made the claim multiple times in recent weeks.
# dup - Friday 4 February, 2022
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
The foreign affairs minister said it’s “enormously frustrating” for Northern Ireland’s other parties.
# Stormont
# Stormont
The former BBC correspondent says recent political unrest in Northern Ireland follows a well-worn pattern.
# Injunction
# Injunction
The decision has been suspended until a judicial review against Edwin Poots’ order can be heard in full.
# dup - Thursday 3 February, 2022
# Explainer
# Explainer
The resignation comes amid a festering row over the Northern Ireland Protocol and with elections looming.
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Feb 3rd 2022, 5:20 PM
Givan's resignation has also triggered Michelle O'Neill's as Deputy First Minister, leading Sinn Féin to call for a snap election. The Taoiseach called the resignation a "very damaging move", while the UK's Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis urged the DUP to “reinstate their First Minister immediately”.
# dup - Wednesday 2 February, 2022
# The Protocol Row
# The Protocol Row
Poots claims he no longer has the legal authority to continue the Protocol checks – but local politics is also at play.
# dup - Tuesday 11 January, 2022
# Jim Shannon
# Jim Shannon
Jim Shannon revealed that his mother-in-law died alone due to Covid-19 restrictions.
# dup - Monday 10 January, 2022
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
Donaldson said her pledges to reform the post-Brexit trading mechanisms need to be backed up with actions.
# dup - Thursday 6 January, 2022
# Diane Dodds
# Diane Dodds
Diane Dodds welcome the move but said Twitter must act to protect users from online abuse.
# dup - Sunday 2 January, 2022
# Brexit
# Brexit
Boris Johnson has vowed to ‘maximise the benefits of Brexit’ in 2022.
# dup - Thursday 23 December, 2021
# Swann Song
# Swann Song
Ulster Unionist party leader Doug Beattie criticised the East Antrim MP for a tweet that singled out UUP Health Minister Robin Swann.
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