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Former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has been released on continuing bail after appearing in court where he was charged with 11 offences including one of rape

Sir Jeffrey faces 11 charges including one of rape, one of committing an act of gross indecency and nine of indecent assault on dates between 1985 and 2006.The offences relate to two alleged victims.

Former DUP leader was met by a medium scrum as he arrived to answer historical sex charges

The ex-DUP leader faces 11 charges and his wife faces four charges connected with aiding and abetting.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness were in Dublin to meet US President George W Bush’s envoy to Belfast.

Libel law prevents me from saying which Northern Ireland politician I thought most likely to ever sit in a dock facing criminal offences, but it most definitely was not Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.

Ever since the IRA’s historic decommissioning of weapons, the process which saw arms destroyed has been clothed in acute secrecy — but now new documents are illuminating some of the shadows.

Noel Doran on some of the political personalities he has rubbed shoulders with

More than a quarter of a century ago, John Hume said something that often seems unfulfilled, despite the peace he helped secure. Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize alongside David Trimble in 1998, the SDLP leader told the Oslo audience: “Too many lives have already been lost in Ireland in the pursuit of political goals. Bloodshed for political change prevents the only change that truly matters: in the human heart.”

A solar eclipse crossing the United States will take place for the second time in less than 10 years on April 8 and two area locations are setting up community