Talks have resumed at Stormont today between the main political parties in Northern Ireland in an attempt to restore a powersharing government. The first fully-fledged discussions since negotiations collapsed in February last year come in the wake of the murder last month of 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee.
Two teenagers have been detained under anti-terror laws in connection with the death of the journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot in the head during disturbances on Thursday night in Londonderry.
Relatives of the victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings have called for those responsible to be prosecuted after an inquest jury found that botched warnings contributed to the deaths of 21 people.
It’s nearly half a century since one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland’s Troubles.
We began by asking him if Philip Hammond was right to be optimistic that the DUP would support the deal.
There were chaotic scenes in Belfast as campaigners defied strict anti-abortion laws by taking what they said were abortion pills outside Northern Ireland’s main court buildings. The recent vote in Ireland to change the constitution to allow abortions, has increased pressure for change in Northern Ireland, where women are unable to have a termination locally…
Theresa May has congratulated Irish voters on their decision to liberalise abortion laws – but she’s now under pressure to reform Northern Ireland’s strict laws too, with MPs across the political spectrum calling for the “anomaly” to be resolved.
Speaking at an event in Dundalk, Michel Barnier said the UK must soften its red lines if there was any chance of breaking an impasse on the Irish border issue. And he denied accusations from unionists that he wasn’t an “honest broker”. Matt Frei reports from Dundalk.
Gary Gibbon
The message from some Brexiteers is that Mrs May shouldn’t assume their support in all circumstances. They have the numbers to bring down the government, the argument runs, and they would do just that if they thought Brexit was being watered down beyond recognition.
It’s 20 years since the Good Friday Agreement was signed,- bringing power-sharing and much peace to Northern Ireland. But for all the progress, there are shadows over today’s anniversary. For more than a year, the DUP and Sinn Fein have refused to share power in Stormont. And there are hard questions over how to avoid…
The new leader of Sinn Fein, Mary Lou McDonald, discusses the Stormont deadlock and Brexit.
Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Smith and Ben Lowry, deputy editor of the Unionist newspaper, the News Letter, discuss the collapse of power-sharing talks.
The chances of a new power-sharing administration in Northern Ireland have been effectively torpedoed, after the Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster said there was no prospect of restoring the devolved government, and calling for the return of direct rule.
A loyalist “supergrass” who admitted the murders of five people has had his jail term slashed to six-and-a-half years for helping the police. Gary Heggarty was originally given a 35-year sentence for his crimes but turned state witness in 2009 and provided information on 55 murders in Northern Ireland, although the information only led to…
Irish Minister of State for European Affairs, Helen McEntee, discusses Brexit.
