Martin McGuinness

UDA's call to 'be ready for battle' criticised: The Irish Times - Dan Keenan

DAN KEENAN, Northern News Editor A UDA statement calling on loyalists to "be ready for battle" has been attacked by the SDLP, Sinn Féin and Alliance Party. However, it has been defended by the Ulster Political Research Group...

Ministers ask for private meeting

The first and deputy first ministers asked for a meeting in closed session The first and deputy first ministers have written to a Stormont committee seeking a private meeting. The meeting follows a row over what they agreed in...

Leaders face grilling on policing transfer stalemate

Northern Ireland's First and Deputy First Ministers are to appear before Assembly members to explain the political logjam surrounding the transfer of policing powers to Stormont, it was revealed today.

UTV petitioned to put job cuts on hold

The leaders of all the main political parties in Northern Ireland have signed a joint petition urging Belfast-based media group UTV to halt proposed jobs cuts. First minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson, deputy first minister...

Party unites in its opposition to Sinn Fein: The Irish Times - Gerry Moriarty

The first conference of Jim Allister's Traditional Unionist Voice party offered little by way of practical politics, but did lay the foundations for the European elections, writes Gerry Moriarty UP TO 200 delegates attended the...

Max Hastings: Give us inquiries into the banking crisis and Iraq, not Bloody Sunday

There is little new to be learned from Derry, 1972. In 1998 Tony Blair reversed this process, by ordering Lord Saville to investigate Bloody Sunday. Last week it was revealed that although Saville's hearings ended in 2004, his...

Stormont 'no longer needs UK nanny': The Observer - Henry McDonald

Tony Blair's former go-between urges the DUP and Sinn Fein to settle their own differences Tony Blair's secret negotiator with the IRA has called for an end to crisis summits involving Irish and British Premiers and Northern...

How the US played a vital role to assist powersharing

In an extract from his new book, Gunsmoke and Mirrors: How the IRA Dressed up Defeat as Victory, the Observer's Ireland Editor argues that the Bush administration's support for the DUP on policing as a pre-condition for...

Let's stop parading Agreement's ambiguities and end the gridlock: Belfast Telegraph (Nov 6) -...

Gerry Adams hit the nail on the side when he remarked on Sunday following the RIR’s Belfast parade: “This is ... an Irish town and for the British Army to host a march at this time is totally and absolutely reprehensible.” This...