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THE new leader of the DUP, Jeffrey Donaldson, says that the failure to address unionist concerns with regard to the protocol will “have serious consequences.”  He says: “The protocol threatens the stability of political institutions,” and he also appeals to unionists to respect others who may differ with them politically or culturally, so as to win the case for the union at this time of the “greatest threat to the economic integrity of the United Kingdom in any of our lifetimes.” I’m old enough to remember Captain Terence O’Neill as leader of the then monolithic Ulster Unioni...

Tom Kelly: Richard Needham memoir an entertaining portrait of a lucky general Former NIO minister Richard Needham's latest memoir is an entertaining portrait of one of the more colourful politicians sent from London to Belfast - usually the Serbia of British politics - writes Tom Kelly 23 June, 2021 01:00 Richard Needham, pictured on Royal Avenue in 1988 as the CastleCourt development takes shape, left his mark on Belfast. Picture by Pacemaker I remember once driving home when on a pirate radio station, the presenter - a maverick independent councillor named Eugene Mar...

Sinn Fein refusing to nominate deputy would be ‘hugely explosive’ – Edwin Poots - The DUP leader said to prevent the nomination of new ministers next week would be harmful to all of the people of Northern Ireland.

Submitting... Commemorating the opening of the Ulster Parliament Buildings Today John is sharing some of the exhibits here marking the ongoing NI 100 centenary programme, which the whole of the UK’s postal service has been celebrating. During April and May, here and in England, Wales and Scotland, there has been a special hand-stamp (the inked postmark on envelopes, sometimes called ‘franking’) marking the centenary with the slogan ‘Our Story in the Making - Northern Ireland Beyond 100’. Along with the commemorative post-mark, the postage stamps and cards in the centenary display mo...

  BBC Northern Ireland’s chronicling of the years leading to Partition has the feeling of a familiar anecdote relayed by a stranger. The details are largely the same, yet the emphasis is different and you learn a few things you hadn’t known before. The Road t o Partition (BBC One, 9pm) is expertly made but very much the Idiot’s Guide to Irish History, presumably aimed at a British audience who wouldn’t know de Valera from da Vinci. Sombrely narrated by Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark from Game of Thrones), the first of two episodes recaps the Easter Rising of 1916, the ma...