To what extent should academics work with government to unearth the secrets of the past? The question is at the heart...
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Stormont only started updating its arrangements for handling a major emergency when that emergency arrived, the forme...
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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s trial is a monumental challenge for the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland.
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Peter Robinson was “well aware” that DUP support for an independent unionist candidate in the 2001 General Election w...
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Despite his denials, secret documents discovered by the Belfast Telegraph show that the Government believed Noel Litt...
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Contrary to Peter Robinson’s claim that the UK Government was hiring a mercenary to murder him after his ‘invasion’ o...
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A Garda officer saved Peter Robinson from being handcuffed and taken to Mountjoy Prison after a court appearance rela...
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Almost half of the DUP’s candidates for Newtownabbey Borough Council in 1993 had some links to loyalist paramilitaris...
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Peter Robinson privately briefed the NIO on his desire to re-enter political talks in the early 1990s and worked with...
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The Secretary of State said the “great work” at Stormont must continue after the resignation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.
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Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said she is “deeply shocked and devastated” by allegations of historical s...
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Police have warned that anyone engaging in online speculation about sex charges brought against Sir Jeffrey Donaldson...
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In many respects, Gavin Robinson and Jeffrey Donaldson are very different.
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Were Saint Patrick to come to Ireland today, he’d be nowhere near as welcome as the festivities in his name suggest. ...
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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson faced ferocious criticism from senior party colleagues on Tuesday night, as his claims about th...
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It was the moment the DUP was meant to trumpet its great victory for the Union — but instead visually demonstrated ho...
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For years the term ‘evangelical’ has been associated with right-wing republicans in the US and the DUP in Northern Ir...
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Peter Robinson has backed the DUP’s decision to return to Stormont – attacking critics who he said were talking “nons...
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So long, winding and wearisome has the road from Brexit been that it is easy to lose sight of where we’ve come from a...
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Michelle O’Neill has broken with republican tradition and is using PSNI bodyguards.
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Business has welcomed the substance of the deal between the Government and DUP, which ends routine checks on goods co...
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The UK government has announced a new internal market scheme with a body set up to encourage trade within the Union, ...
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What unfolded on Monday night was not just the humiliation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson by a man he thought he could outs...
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The DUP is alive with speculation and suspicion about what Sir Jeffrey Donaldson plans to do at tonight’s party execu...
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A fortnight before Christmas, a senior unionist rang about the DUP’s talks with the Government. At the end of the con...
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A councillor who quit the DUP last week has said that the party is “obviously divided” over whether to return to Stor...
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After coming to Belfast to interview Michelle O’Neill in mid-2022, Henry Mance of the Financial Times observed: “Havi...
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A DUP councillor has quit the party just months into his political career, days after being hospitalised with a heart...
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A farmer who told the Belfast Telegraph he was “really annoyed” that the police weren’t doing enough to find the crim...
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In the undergrowth of unionism, something is stirring. It’s still only a few rustling leaves rather than a stampede, ...
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The DUP has been “plain stupid” in any economic plan to support Brexit and later boycott devolved government, a retir...
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The Government is offering Stormont what seems like a massive sum if the DUP restores power-sharing rapidly — but is ...
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Above a photo of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the Belfast Telegraph’s front page headline yesterday was stark: “We’re in no...
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A technical change to legislation which could stop people needlessly going blind and losing teeth could be made by ci...
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The balance of power in Northern Ireland has shifted dramatically in Sinn Fein’s favour since the last time an Execut...
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Michael Cameron was 36 when a mundane bureaucratic procedure demolished what he believed to be the most elemental fac...
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What if the real Jeffrey Donaldson is not the man we’ve thought him to be? For years, Donaldson has widely been seen ...
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When your enemy becomes your friend, it can be awkward for you as well as for him. For years, nationalists presented ...
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Former DUP minister Jim Wells has said that his friend of 50 years who helped found the DUP was wrong to say publicly...
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