Content based on the tag Jeffrey Donaldson

It would be a scandal if Jeffrey Donaldson’s trial collapsed due to the justice system’s failure

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s trial is a monumental challenge for the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland.

about 2 months ago

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

‘Great work’ at Stormont must continue after ‘shocking news’ of Jeffrey Donaldson sex charges, NI...

The Secretary of State said the “great work” at Stormont must continue after the resignation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.

about 2 months ago

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

MP questions why Sir Jeffrey Donaldson not barred from entering Parliament after sex charges

A Labour MP has questioned why MPs accused of sex crimes are still not barred from Westminster.

about 2 months ago

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Emma Little-Pengelly 'shocked' by Jeffrey Donaldson sex claims while DUP MP says party in 'turmoil'

Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said she is “deeply shocked and devastated” by allegations of historical s...

about 2 months ago

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Warning issued to public over Jeffrey Donaldson's historical sex offence charges

Police have warned that anyone engaging in online speculation about sex charges brought against Sir Jeffrey Donaldson...

about 2 months ago

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Gavin Robinson the new leader of the Dysfunctional Unionist Party... but deeper power lies elsewhere

In many respects, Gavin Robinson and Jeffrey Donaldson are very different.

about 2 months ago

belfastlive.co.uk

Orlaith Clinton

Michelle O'Neill statement after Jeffrey Donaldson charged with 'allegations of a historical nature'

"The Party Chairman has received a letter from Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP confirming that he has been charged with alle...

2 months ago

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP MP who attended anti-protocol rally criticises speakers’ ‘vindictive’ attacks on party

A DUP MP who attended an anti-protocol rally alongside Jamie Bryson and Jim Allister has now criticised “vindictive” ...

3 months ago

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Donaldson’s deal leaves NI in ‘colonial’ situation, says Dodds as DUP peers dismiss their leader’...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson faced ferocious criticism from senior party colleagues on Tuesday night, as his claims about th...

3 months ago

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In a near-empty chamber, DUP leader trips himself up while his internal critics get louder

It was the moment the DUP was meant to trumpet its great victory for the Union — but instead visually demonstrated ho...

3 months ago

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Building work at Larne border post stepped up despite DUP deal as residents fear homes may be dam...

Work on the Larne border control post is pushing ahead despite last week’s DUP deal to return to Stormont.

3 months ago

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Watch: ‘Sell-out claims are nonsense’ – Peter Robinson backs DUP return to Stormont as Assembly h...

Peter Robinson has backed the DUP’s decision to return to Stormont – attacking critics who he said were talking “nons...

3 months ago

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Despite the DUP’s Trumpian claims, this deal has embedded the sea border rather than removed it

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...

4 months ago

belfastlive.co.uk

Nadia Breen

LIVE: DUP backs deal to return to Stormont as Sir Jeffrey Donaldson hits out at meeting leaks

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson told reporters in a post-1am press conference in Co Down that he had secured the "decisive" bac...

4 months ago

belfastlive.co.uk

Orlaith Clinton

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson expected to make statement after executive meeting leaks - LIVE updates

Another tweet claimed that Sir Jeffrey told the executive meeting that the PSNI was "brought in to try and block phon...

4 months ago

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

This is more than the humiliation of Donaldson, but the collapse of the DUP’s remaining reputatio...

What unfolded on Monday night was not just the humiliation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson by a man he thought he could outs...

4 months ago

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Donaldson’s deal has been sitting there for six weeks — so why won’t he show it to his party?

The DUP is alive with speculation and suspicion about what Sir Jeffrey Donaldson plans to do at tonight’s party execu...

4 months ago

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Jeffrey Donaldson’s in too deep to back away from deal – but he’s acutely vulnerable

A fortnight before Christmas, a senior unionist rang about the DUP’s talks with the Government. At the end of the con...

4 months ago

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DUP rupture coming if deal accepted, says man who was party councillor until last week

A councillor who quit the DUP last week has said that the party is “obviously divided” over whether to return to Stor...

4 months ago

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The DUP’s boycott is not about a nationalist First Minister and claims to the contrary are acutel...

After coming to Belfast to interview Michelle O’Neill in mid-2022, Henry Mance of the Financial Times observed: “Havi...

5 months ago

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A strong Christian faith is my ‘anchor’ in politics, Donaldson tells GB News’ Foster

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has described how his strong Christian belief helps guide him through the “storms” of frontline...

5 months ago

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Sellout posters unnerved the DUP because the party is obviously horse-trading sea border stance f...

The DUP is stalling on a deal, irritating those who want to see devolved government back by Christmas – but that’s no...

5 months ago

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Michael Kenwood

Belfast Council sends TUV message to DUP over rates policy

The message was part of a motion calling for an end to a cap on wealthy home owners rates bill

5 months ago

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Donaldson hopes cash makes up for Irish Sea border climbdown – but it could make it seem worse

Gordon Brown once said that when he came to Belfast he would “feel the hand of history on my shoulders, and the hand ...

5 months ago

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Northern Ireland society is in deep trouble - the people suffering as a result of chaos are rewar...

Last Wednesday morning, my daughter couldn’t go to school because the teachers in Northern Ireland were on strike. Th...

6 months ago

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DUP’s absence has done so much damage, Donaldson needs a lot to show for it but likelihood is he ...

Above a photo of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the Belfast Telegraph’s front page headline yesterday was stark: “We’re in no...

8 months ago

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Why I don’t buy Heaton-Harris’ defence of ‘unbelievably straightforward’ trade system

If the Irish Sea border was a person, it would have been groaning in dismay at hearing Chris Heaton-Harris try to def...

8 months ago

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We might all have been seriously misreading who Jeffrey Donaldson is and where he wants to take N...

What if the real Jeffrey Donaldson is not the man we’ve thought him to be? For years, Donaldson has widely been seen ...

9 months ago

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Evidence that anti-McGuinness protests at Donaldson’s old school were orchestrated, declassified ...

There was circumstantial evidence that walkout protests by pupils at Jeffrey Donaldson’s old school were being orches...

9 months ago

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NI Secretary of State in defiant one-word response to suggestions he’s part of the Stormont problem

Chris Heaton-Harris has responded defiantly to the suggestion that he might be part of the problem with restoring Sto...

11 months ago

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Gavin Robinson now the favourite to be the next leader of unionism, but first he must help DUP de...

For the second time in its history, the DUP’s deputy leader is a Robinson. If Gavin Robinson does as well as Peter Ro...

12 months ago

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DUP could enter coalition with Labour after next election, Dame Arlene Foster says

The DUP could enter a coalition with Labour if the next election delivers a hung parliament, former leader Dame Arlen...

about 1 year ago

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DUP’s message of fear is 50 years out of date

The DUP has considerable cause for optimism as it faces voters next week: it has recovered in the polls, has avoided ...

about 1 year ago

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP’s manifesto launch message of fear is 50 years out of date

The DUP has considerable cause for optimism as it faces voters next week: it has recovered in the polls, has avoided ...

about 1 year ago

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King Charles’ coronation: A moment of elite political and religious unity... but also of public i...

If, as the academic David Cannadine postulated four decades ago, the popularity of the monarchy can be divined from t...

about 1 year ago

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Revealed: DUP leader’s U-turn over ‘danger’ that Brexit posed to the Union

Just weeks before the Irish Sea border was implemented, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson told an academic Brexit was just a trad...

about 1 year ago

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Stormont Brake law looks like a unionist veto but it clearly isn’t

The ‘Stormont Brake’ legislation sounds like a unionist veto, but it clearly isn’t.

about 1 year ago

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Stalling Donaldson isn’t rejecting Windsor Framework but making it harder to say yes

Jeffrey Donaldson is stalling. He’s not saying no, even though it’s clear that the Windsor Framework does not meet hi...

about 1 year ago

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DUP’s NI Protocol dilemma: Clear that most of its seven tests not met

For more than a year and a half, the DUP has bored anyone in earshot by repeating the mantra that any deal on the NI ...