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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.

Almost 200,000 of Northern Ireland’s workforce across health, education and public services will take to the picket lines tomorrow in what has been billed as the most disruptive day of industrial action the country has ever seen.

Since the resignation of First Minister Paul Givan in February 2022, Northern Ireland has not had a functioning government.

Anybody expecting a chastened or subdued DUP at Stormont would have been deeply disappointed.

People in Northern Ireland are second-class citizens, and it’s not because of the Irish Sea Border.

If you closed your eyes and felt the chill on your toes you could be forgiven for thinking we were back in January 2020.

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A hardline loyalist who used an anti-Protocol rally to denounce Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie as a “traitor” and “Lundy” has stepped down from his role as Apprentice Boys president in Lurgan.

Loyalist Jamie Bryson has said Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is wrong to claim that Northern Ireland’s continuing unfettered access to the EU single market won’t create an all-Ireland economy.

As the rest of us were enjoying the Christmas festivities, Jamie Bryson was busy compiling an 18-page document outlining the evils of the protocol and the reasons why the DUP should stay out of Stormont.