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The latest intervention from the Government has shown once again that political deadlines in Northern Ireland are meaningless.

Small retailers in Britain trading through Amazon have threatened to stop selling to Northern Ireland due to impending new EU requirements.

Former Iraq war veteran Colonel Tim Collins is to stand in the next Westminster election for the Ulster Unionists.

A councillor who quit the DUP last week has said that the party is “obviously divided” over whether to return to Stormont and there is a “rupture” coming in unionism if devolution returns.

It is hard to see how Jeffrey Donaldson can continue much longer as leader of the DUP. He is believed by his party to want to return to Stormont yet he cannot be confident of bringing a majority of his party officers with him.

Few would ever have believed this day would come to pass.

After coming to Belfast to interview Michelle O’Neill in mid-2022, Henry Mance of the Financial Times observed: “Having promised to be a ‘First Minister for all’, O’Neill is not First Minister at all.”

Last week, an Ofcom survey revealed the NI public pays more attention to local news than anywhere else in the UK, with more than eight in 10 respondents indicating it was something they followed.

A new European ruling on silver dental fillings threatens the future of NHS dentistry in Northern Ireland unless Stormont steps in, the British Dental Association (BDA) have said.

A senior DUP source has said the party appears to have made “no substantive progress” on ending the Irish Sea border, and accused the leadership of “over-egging” the Government’s proposed deal.