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Sinn Féin is facing an awkward decision that will demonstrate how much it’s prepared to annoy its base in pursuit of greater power. How Mary Lou McDonald handles the next seven weeks will reveal how far she is prepared to bend to win the next election.
A fortnight before Christmas, a senior unionist rang about the DUP’s talks with the Government. At the end of the conversation, the individual said of the proposed deal on the Irish Sea border: “I do think if this goes through that it’s the end.”
Gerry Kelly has accepted a devastating judgment which leaves him liable for a huge legal bill over what a judge said was an attempt to intimidate a journalist.
Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Life journalists have been shortlisted for seventeen awards at The Regional Press Awards this year.
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.