No paramilitary involvement in threats to port workers, says PSNI
The EU asked its officials in Northern Ireland not to go to work and condemned ‘any threats’ to port staff
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The EU asked its officials in Northern Ireland not to go to work and condemned ‘any threats’ to port staff
The motion doesn’t impact or change Northern Ireland’s abortion legislation.
“All the old certainties are gone,” Sinn Féin president mary Lou McDonald said.
The move to decriminalise abortion will only be halted if the Stormont executive is restored by 21 October.
Adams said he does not think the Taoiseach has “good instincts” when it comes to dealing with these issues.
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire will have no choice but name a date for elections later today.
This would mean Northern Ireland could match our very attractive 12.5% rate. Let the games begin…
… but only for today, and he wasn’t there.
MLAs voted 53 to 42 against a motion which called on the Northern executive to allow civil marriage for same-sex couples.
The nationalist parties and three UUP members backed the motion, which was opposed by the two main unionist parties.
Can SF hope to represent voters on a 32-county basis, asks David McCann, when they can’t keep their policies aligned north and south of the border?
Senator George Mitchell, who oversaw the negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement, recounts his experiences planting the first seeds of peace.
There have been widespread delays in counting across the region with less than half of the assembly’s seats filled so far.
The bishops have criticised cuts in the minimum wage and say that the new government needs to learn from the “wrongs of the past”.