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...“A divided unionism in 2022 cannot win elections,” Jonathan Buckley, a DUP legislator, told the BBC....
...Jonathan Buckley, a DUP legislator, told BBC Northern Ireland it had been a “very solid election” for his party....
...“The trouble with Brexit is it brought the poison of identity back into politics so it’s no longer about health or education . . . but about identity,” said Jonathan Powell, former chief of staff to Tony...
...Or the Ian Paisley who said yes to the St Andrews Agreement in 2006 and set up a power-sharing executive with Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness which brought prosperity and stability to Northern Ireland for...
...Among other standout guests will be Michelle O’Neill, the republican leader of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland and first minister-in-waiting....
...Boris Johnson will visit Northern Ireland on Monday after Sinn Féin won the largest number of seats in the Stormont power-sharing executive....
...Letter in response to this article: Blame property owners for lack of affordable housing / From Jonathan Malone, Singapore...
...Sir Jonathan Jones, former head of the UK government legal service who resigned over Johnson’s earlier handling of the Northern Ireland issue, said the bill was “completely extraordinary” and was “at the...
...In Northern Ireland, there is a high probability — although not a certainty, according to those on the ground — of history being made by Sinn Féin, once the marginalised political wing of the IRA, becoming...
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...All of this is complicated by the Unionist fear of Sinn Féin winning the elections next year and taking the first minister position....
...“Givan’s position looks untenable,” Jonathan Tonge of Liverpool university told the Financial Times. “He was Poots’ man and the next DUP leader — Donaldson probably — might not want him.”...
...“In symbolic terms it would be a massive blow to unionism for republicans to take the first minister [office],” said Jonathan Tonge, professor of politics at Liverpool university and a long time Northern...
...Jonathan Tonge, a professor of politics at Liverpool university, said the DUP could express its opposition to the protocol by refusing to join North South Ministerial meetings, as Poots has been doing and...
...On Wednesday night Sinn Féin Stormont member Carál Ní Chuilín called for an “urgent meeting” with Northern Ireland’s health and education ministers, claiming activity around a loyalist bonfire site in Tiger...
...Jonathan Roberts, the assistant chief constable of the PSNI, said the “involvement of proscribed organisations is likely” in the conflict, referring to illegal sectarian paramilitary criminal groups that...
...But the spark for the protests came late last month after a decision not to prosecute nationalist Sinn Féin politicians for attending the funeral of former IRA leader Bobby Storey last June in breach of...
...That is a particularly alarming prospect as Sinn Féin escalates calls for a referendum on uniting Northern Ireland with the Republic....
...Even if they don’t win, Sinn Féin’s poll surge poses complications for coalition building....
...Mayhew, the Northern Ireland secretary, made a speech in which he reduced the demand to “the actual decommissioning of some arms”, which became known as “Washington Three”, the third condition for Sinn Féin...
...Vivien’s strategy has been to fit in, but 21-year-old Errol’s (Jonathan Ajayi) anger is driving him towards revolution, while his older brother Alvin (Tok Stephens) is torn and in despair....
...The talks almost failed, recalls Jonathan Powell, Mr Blair’s chief aide at the time. “It was a nightmare of a negotiation,” he says....
...But in the end Sinn Féin accepted power sharing, cross-border bodies and other guarantees instead, while maintaining their own desire to get rid of the border one day....
...When the DUP agreed to participate in the peace process after Mr Trimble’s defeat in the 2003 election, its leaders refused to meet Sinn Féin, and I shuttled between the two sides (although they maintained...
...Sortu, the equivalent of Sinn Fein, is now the second party both in the Basque region and in Navarre. But even now the Spanish government is unlikely to welcome the handing over of Eta’s weapons....
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