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Power-sharing is "essential" for securing Northern Ireland's future within the UK, the DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said. Party members gathered in Belfast to hear him address their annual conference. The DUP walked out of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government 18 months ago in protest at post-Brexit trade rules.

Northern Ireland's main pro-UK party, whose long-running boycott of the province's devolved government has forced its suspension, faces mounting pressure from both political allies and foes as it holds its annual conference this weekend.It is not just political foes like Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the paramilitary IRA, that are heaping pressure on the DUP.  Unionist hardliners insist that the newly-agreed "Windsor Framework" trading rules still erect a ...

Ireland’s deputy premier Micheal Martin has insisted that everyone should have the right to voice different perspectives on the constitutional question in Northern Ireland.

The UK government eased a de facto ban on onshore wind in England on Tuesday, after growing pressure from environmental campaigners and some ruling Conservative lawmakers.Those rules, introduced by former prime minister David Cameron in 2015 amid fears of a backlash from typically Tory voting rural communities, resulted in an effective ban on new wind farms and smaller sites.

Public services in Scotland are facing savage budget cuts after it emerged no new UK Treasury funding would be sent to Holyrood to help pay for the huge pay rises being handed out by the SNP.

GOVERNMENT ministers visited a manufacturing site in Hexham to discuss the future of the wood panel industry.

The NI Secretary has said he will call an election at midnight if the powersharing institutions are not restored.

EVERY time I turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper these days, all I see are reports about the "cost of living crisis".

SDLP meanwhile have described Paul Givan’s expected resignation as a ‘gross betrayal’ of the people.