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Breaking News: After more than five turbulent years as DUP leader, Arlene Foster’s time at the helm of Northern Ireland’s biggest party appears to be coming to an end after

Two days after Bobby Storey’s funeral, the Executive quietly changed the law to remove the prohibition which prevented Michelle O’Neill from attending the funeral – but did not announce that,

The Executive Michelle O'Neill jointly leads still tells the public there should be no more than 10 people at a funeral. In April, she said "no one is exempt" from

Having asked an industry/civil service committee to effectively decide which businesses are classed as 'essential' during the pandemic because the DUP & SF couldn't agree, now Stormont has bungled the

Some rare good news: According to the latest modelling, Northern Ireland's peak of Covid-19 "may now be less severe than we had feared - in the first wave at least",

SF's stance on the Army helping the NHS is unusually incoherent. If SF simply rejected it ideologically, it would make sense. But Conor Murphy told @markdevenport that wasn't the case,

Finance Minister Conor Murphy was in the process of starting to pay £170m for PPE bought from China via the Irish Government when it started to become clear that it