# uup - Friday 3 January, 2020
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
UUP leader Steven Aiken said he was unsure of how close the parties were to a deal.
# uup - Friday 13 December, 2019
# Results
# Results
The latest results from the 18 constituencies in the North.
# uup - Sunday 17 November, 2019
# Brexit
# Brexit
Michelle Gildernew will be trying to keep her seat against the UUP ’s Tom Elliot in the famously closely fought constituency.
# uup - Tuesday 5 November, 2019
# Intimidation
# Intimidation
His comments come as officers continue to investigate telephone threats made to Ulster Unionist Party.
# uup - Saturday 2 November, 2019
# Pact
# Pact
Arlene Foster said she believes in unionist co-operation.
# uup - Friday 1 November, 2019
# Belfast
# Belfast
The DUP has also condemned the alleged intimidation.
# uup - Sunday 6 October, 2019
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
UUP leader Robin Swann announced that he was stepping down this week.
# uup - Monday 30 September, 2019
# UUP
# UUP
Swann will remain in the role until the party’s next annual general meeting in 2020.
# uup - Monday 27 May, 2019
# New Faces
# New Faces
The Alliance Party’s Naomi Long was elected with the DUP’s Diane Dodds and Martina Anderson of Sinn Féin.
# uup - Tuesday 1 May, 2018
# Lord Kilclooney
# Lord Kilclooney
Lord Kilclooney’s remark was met with condemnation and he received a significant amount of backlash online.
# uup - Friday 30 March, 2018
# 20 Years On
# 20 Years On
The 20th anniversary of the landmark deal is being marked – here’s what’s in it.
# uup - Monday 6 March, 2017
# Beware The Ides Of March
# Beware The Ides Of March
Unionist parties have lost their absolute majority for the first time since partition in 1921.
# Three Week Deadline
# Three Week Deadline
If talks on forming a government collapse, a possible return to direct rule from Westminster is on the table.
# uup - Wednesday 1 March, 2017
# Get Smart Fast
# Get Smart Fast
Voters go to the polls tomorrow. Here’s what you need to know.
# uup - Thursday 5 May, 2016
# Don't Copy The South
# Don't Copy The South
The polls are open in the assembly elections in Northern Ireland.
# uup - Saturday 5 March, 2016
# Loggerheads
# Loggerheads
The UUP announced today that they want the UK to stay in the EU.
# uup - Tuesday 20 October, 2015
# Haven't Gone Away
# Haven't Gone Away
Two reports into the current status of the Provisional IRA have been published today. Here’s what they say…
# uup - Friday 11 September, 2015
# Crisis Point
# Crisis Point
With the executive on the brink of collapse, what are the likely outcomes?
# uup - Tuesday 1 September, 2015
# The IRA Debate
# The IRA Debate
The debate over the status of the IRA rages on, with rounds of meetings today in Dublin, London and Belfast.
# uup - Monday 31 August, 2015
# The IRA Debate
# The IRA Debate
The first minister’s back on the scene – and he’s had a thing or two to say about the raging IRA debate.
# uup - Wednesday 26 August, 2015
# Pulling Out
# Pulling Out
Mike Nesbitt said a vote will be taken by the party executive on Saturday.
# uup - Wednesday 18 March, 2015
# uup - Wednesday 3 December, 2014
# Flegs
# Flegs
Research from Queen’s says the parties did more than anyone to heighten tensions.
# uup - Thursday 22 May, 2014
# Election 14
# Election 14
Haven’t been following the race up North? Here’s a taster.
# uup - Friday 28 February, 2014
# War Of Words
# War Of Words
Martin McGuinness disagrees saying that if the DUP’s outbusts are about appeasing hardline unionists and electioneering.
# uup - Monday 20 January, 2014
# Edged Out
# Edged Out
The former DUP leader has detailed how senior party figures edged him out as First Minister of Northern Ireland.
# uup - Sunday 19 January, 2014
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
The Tánaiste says there may be a joint intervention by the Irish and British Governments if parties are unable to make progress.
# uup - Wednesday 15 January, 2014
# Haass Talks
# Haass Talks
The leaders of the five main Northern Ireland parties held talks yesterday to discuss the fallout from Haass, and have agreed to a further meeting next week.
# uup - Thursday 9 January, 2014
# Compromise
# Compromise
The vice-chair of recent talks told RTÉ’s Prime Time that some parties are continuing to focus on the parts of the deal they disagree with.
# uup - Wednesday 8 January, 2014
# Draft Deal
# Draft Deal
The talks chair said that he hoped the parties would continue to work to achieve agreement.
# uup - Monday 6 January, 2014
# Haass Proposals
# Haass Proposals
The Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland made the comments as the Haass-O’Sullivan team published a summary of the proposed deal.
# uup - Monday 30 December, 2013
# Deadline Day
# Deadline Day
The final day of negotiations began at 10am this morning.
# uup - Saturday 28 December, 2013
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
The US diplomat is back for “one final effort” to reach agreement on some of the most contentious outstanding issues of the peace process.
# uup - Monday 23 December, 2013
# Peace Process
# Peace Process
“It’s going to be an interesting night,” the US diplomat told reporters, as he arrived at Belfast’s Stormont Hotel.
# uup - Wednesday 24 July, 2013
# Belfast
# Belfast
The order has vowed to stage a protest at the location every weekend until it is allowed complete its ‘July Twelfth’ parade.
# uup - Friday 9 March, 2012
# Ulster Unionists
# Ulster Unionists
Elliott accused party colleagues of briefing journalists against him and said hostility to his leadership had been “relentless”.
# uup - Tuesday 7 February, 2012
# Commonwealth
# Commonwealth
Tom Elliott says the Queen’s visit last year forged a new relationship – and joining the Commonwealth would honour her jubilee.
# uup - Friday 17 June, 2011
# Your Say
# Your Say
A new poll in Northern Ireland has shown that a majority of Catholics want to remain in the UK. What do you think?
# United Ireland?
# United Ireland?
More than half would now prefer to remain part of the UK – double the previous figure before the Republic’s economic crisis hit home.
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