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Its saturday 4th march. Well be live in belfast in the next few minutes. Also ahead mercedes recalls 75 thousand cars in the uk because of a risk of them catching fire. Sweeping away the small print. The chancellor promises a crackdown on consumer rip offs. Could the uk quit the eu without paying a penny . A House Of Lords report says the government isnt legally obliged to contribute to the cost of brexit. In sport, a century from captain eoin morgan sets up england for victory, in the First One...

Always going to best possible once we couldnt have the pictures of the us president giving out an address inference of functioning assembly, there was a feeling that the optics of that wouldnt really have been correct. and we had this much more scaled down to visit. that said, the day a us president visits anywhere is that a good day. huge positives to come out of this and actually one of the most encouraging things from the event today at ulster university is a number of young people as student...

And the speech. it was of significance and there was a clear offerfor us significance and there was a clear offer for us but at the same time is there to recognise we could have made more off of the visit if we had a functioning assembly. and we had those images of the president actually there with a sitting first minister and deputy first minister. we either need to see the du p returning quickly to the institutions or otherwise we will need to look to what our party has been campaigning forfor...

POLITICIANS among the 450 guests in the banqueting room at the Belfast Chamber annual lunch were given a double “get back to work” salvo from the event's two main speakers, including from Tánaiste/Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin.

That is an absolute nonsense, the dup know that. what they wanted from brexit, however, was a hard border on the island of ireland and they are now disgruntled that instead they got what i think was always logically going to be the outcome, and that was additional friction in trade between gb and northern ireland. i believe that friction can be reduced, but scaling this up to be reduced, but scaling this up to be a constitutional crisis is an absolute nonsense. the real constitutional crisis is ...

All the dramas and perhaps theres a school of thought that this is less about northern ireland and northern ireland could just be collateral damage and a power—play internal ramblings of the government of the day. ramblings of the government of the da . . , , ., ., day. references been made to preserving _ day. references been made to preserving the _ day. references been made to - preserving the good friday agreement thatis preserving the good friday agreement that is why we have the border d...

Backin ireland assembly, who was elected back injanuary of ireland assembly, who was elected back in january of 2020. ireland assembly, who was elected back injanuary of 2020. we know that the democratic unionist party said they will not agree to elect a new speaker at stormont and this is the concern is to do with the northern ireland protocol, those trading arrangements that keep northern ireland as part of the eu single market for goods after brexit. we are told that we have heard from mr mas...

Make it work to make northern ireland work. two years after covid, post—brexit, we want to make northern ireland work and we will do that. a majority of politicians potentially going back into this assembly, if they can get back together again, who actually support the protocol or if they had issues with it can work with it within the context of a functioning assembly. what in the alliance party would you say to the dup who are worried about their constitutional position and feel squeezed by t...