Executive business could grind to a halt due to Sinn Féin/DUP row Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 30 October 2026 at 12:22 Items can only make it on Executive agenda with First and deputy First Minister approval, DUP says it will ‘frustrate Sinn Féin’s agenda’
Trust criticised over failings with care home resident who suffered nine falls fracturing her ribs and vertebra Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 29 October 2026 at 06:41
Budget 2026: £100 energy payment, heating oil tariff suspended, first-time buyer help, minimum wage rise, and £7.5m for AI and cyber in Belfast Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden · Margaret Canning 28 October 2026 at 11:31 Scroll down for live updates from today’s announcement, and what it means for Northern Ireland
Stormont parties give their say ahead of UK Government budget Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 27 October 2026 at 20:22 Calls for support for families and workers
Lord Empey: Drumcree dispute has ‘boomeranged on the long-term aims of republicans’ Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 27 October 2026 at 18:10 ‘The Irish flag, the tricolour, is a fraud. It’s green only’
Plans for new £13m prison kitchen and cafe ‘deferred’ with wider redevelopment on hold Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 27 October 2026 at 06:40 DUP MLA says prison officers deserve ‘much-needed improvements’
TUV would be ‘welcoming’ if Carla Lockhart decided to leave DUP, says Jim Allister Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 26 October 2026 at 10:30 Speculation over Upper Bann MP’s future continues to swirl.
Former prison officer selected as UUP candidate for Mid Ulster Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 26 October 2026 at 09:40
Sinn Féin MP calls for full House of Commons probe into Jeffrey Donaldson Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 26 October 2026 at 06:30 Mallaghan writes to Speaker after latest ‘sickening’ revelations about disgraced ex-DUP leader’s work on children’s rights bodies
‘We are heading somewhere ugly’: MLA on increased threats directed towards politicians Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 26 October 2026 at 06:00
Court ruling expected on Wednesday after legal challenge against NI Secretary's block on Drumcree parade Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 26 October 2026 at 16:20 DUP refuse to collapse Stormont despite Lockhart’s call
A letter to Gaddafi: How a Boston priest tried to get the Libyan dictator to take back guns he’d supplied to IRA Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 26 October 2026 at 06:00 Fr Raymond Helmich’s secret decommissioning effort revealed in uncovered letter
Sinn Féin MLA found to have breached Assembly code of conduct, but no sanction imposed Belfast Telegraph By: Andrew Madden 16 October 2026 at 13:30 Case relates to conflict of interest over incident involving damage to portrait of DUP mayor