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Bust of John Hume unveiled to mark 25 years since Nobel Peace Prize

The Ceann Comhairle, Seán Ó Fearghaíl TD, has unveiled a bust of the late John Hume in Leinster House in Dublin to commemorate the Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Mr Hume and David Trimble for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the ...

30 Mar 2023 at 15:30

Northern Ireland

DUP cannot give timetable for return to powersharing, says Donaldson

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said he cannot set out a timetable for his party’s return to devolved powersharing at Stormont. Sir Jeffrey said his party can only make a decision on its next move when the incoming prime minister is in ...

03 Aug 2022 at 11:17

Northern Ireland

U2 concert in Belfast helped secure Yes vote in agreement referendum – Durkan

The buzz generated by a U2 concert in Belfast during the referendum campaign for the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement boosted the Yes campaign, Mark Durkan has said. Mr Durkan, who headed the SDLP’s campaign for a Yes vote, described the ...

05 Apr 2023 at 11:00

Northern Ireland

Trimble and Mallon sanctioned DUP ministers over rotation plan

DUP ministers Peter Robinson and Nigel Dodds were sanctioned in 2000 by Stormont’s leaders over their plan to disrupt the powersharing Executive. Minutes of an Executive meeting from June of that year state further action would be ...

30 Dec 2024 at 00:01

Northern Ireland

Belfast Agreement has survived almost 25 years despite objections – Lord Trimble

The Belfast Agreement has survived almost 25 years despite objections to some parts of it, Northern Ireland’s former First Minister has said. The peace agreement brokered in 1998 saw the establishment of the powersharing Assembly ...

27 Jun 2022 at 20:31

Northern Ireland

Trimble was titan of unionism despite our differences, says Donaldson

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said David Trimble was a “titan of unionism” despite their political differences. The DUP leader also said that all unionists must recognise that consensus politics and powersharing, as supported by ...

26 Jul 2022 at 11:25

Northern Ireland

Stormont ‘gone for good’ if powersharing collapses again, new UUP leader says

The new leader of the UUP has warned that Stormont will “be gone for good” if powersharing collapses again. Mike Nesbitt told his party conference “it’s good to be back” as he returned as leader for the second time. In his ...

28 Sept 2024 at 15:00

Northern Ireland

MLAs to gather in latest attempt to elect Stormont speaker

MLAs will gather at Stormont in the latest attempt to restore the devolved powersharing institutions in Northern Ireland. However, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s Democratic Unionist Party will again block the election of an ...

03 Aug 2022 at 03:45

Northern Ireland

Latest attempt to restore Stormont powersharing ends in failure

The latest bid to restore Northern Ireland’s powersharing institutions has failed. The attempt to elect an Assembly speaker – a prerequisite of reconstituting the devolved legislature – was always set to fail, due ...

03 Aug 2022 at 14:29

National News

Donaldson has ‘no regrets’ on walk out from Good Friday Agreement negotiations

Twenty-five years after walking out of the Good Friday Agreement peace talks, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has insisted he has no regrets. The current DUP leader was a senior member of the Ulster Unionists’ negotiating ...

04 Apr 2023 at 11:44

Northern Ireland

Irish Government doubted UK campaign to ‘save David’ Trimble

The UK Government was warned that a “save David campaign” for UUP leader Lord Trimble would ruin progress made under the Good Friday Agreement. Extensive confidential documents in the lead-up to the collapse of ...

30 Dec 2024 at 00:01

National News

Trimble told by Blair to ‘get lost’ over timing of border poll, records show

Former UUP leader David Trimble was effectively told by Tony Blair to “get lost” over the timing of a border poll, according to previously confidential reports. Under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement of ...

29 Dec 2024 at 00:01

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