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Rarely can a political leader have been as disappointed at seeing their party’s support increase.

Anger at the DUP’s block on a functioning government at Stormont grows day and daily among the overwhelming majority of people in Northern Ireland, but there is also another indisputable reality.

The DUP is closing the gap on Sinn Fein as support for both the Ulster Unionists and the TUV falls, according to a new poll.

The absence of a functioning Executive is a “key concern” for businesses as issues have “stacked up” in the absence of ministers, a survey has found.

Ards and North Down Council is to accept a £55,000 Stormont grant which facilitates Brexit Irish Sea border regulations after the UUP decided not to oppose it.

Despite growing up with the family business as an ever-present thing, a young Gareth Chambers didn’t have much interest in getting involved – until, that is, he bought it from his parents.

The US special economic envoy to Northern Ireland is “optimistic” about powersharing resuming after meeting leaders as part of a four-day visit by potential American investors.

Rishi Sunak’s first year in Number 10 has certainly not been a runaway success, but one of the few wins to his name is securing the Windsor Framework.

Any referendum on a united Ireland should require the support of a super-majority of voters in both Northern Ireland and the Republic, according to Northern Ireland Office Minister Steve Baker.

Eight months ago, Rishi Sunak came to Belfast to reassure anyone who’d listen that he’d got rid of “any sense of an Irish Sea border”.