Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
DUP Conference Okay, the BBC should have a live feed from about 10am onwards (check the news page after 10 ). We have tweeters on the ground at La Mon Hotel, but you can join in by using your own Twitter account and the hashtag #dup09 which will mean then that your ‘tweets’ will automatically appear in the live blog feed. I need to give a presentation half way through the day here in Barcelona,...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
JUST caught Peter Robinson on News 24. The section of the speech that attracted the BBC’s attention most was this: I cannot guarantee the future of the Assembly but I can guarantee that it will not be the DUP that will walk away. I can also guarantee that in whatever circumstances we find ourselves, the DUP will act in the best interests of the people of Northern Ireland. This is the DUP message...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Members of the DUP gather in Belfast for the party's annual conference.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson admits he cannot guarantee the future of the assembly.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
NI First Minister Peter Robinson admits he cannot guarantee the future of the assembly, but says the DUP will not walk away.
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
The DUP should have taken more time to “sell” its decision to go into government with Sinn Fein, First Minister Peter Robinson has admitted.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Fair Deal, David Gordon and I wrote three short speeches we thought Peter Robinson should give to the DUP faithful tomorrow. Read them here .
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The DUP have released a 35 page document entitled “Building on Success” which will apparently be available at their party conference. The exerts on the website include Robinson saying: We took the right decision in 2007 to restore devolution. The course we have charted over recent years has been good for unionism and good for Northern Ireland . It has not been easy, but it has been worth...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The media has already established its angle on the North Antrim general election contest. It’s all about Jim Allister and whichever Paisley is nominated to rebuff his challenge. To a degree the preoccupation with the DUP / TUV contest is understandable. After all, in 2005 Senior romped home with more than 25,000 votes and Ulster Unionist candidate, Rodney McCune, was beaten to second spot by...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
There have been a number of reports of planes flying at night in Fermanagh and there was also a recent report of a possible plane crash though nothing appears to have been found. The Army denied training with unmanned drones but did state that pilots were using Fermanagh for training purposes. An army spokesperson stated: “As you know, with Northern Ireland being part of the UK, there is low...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Collapsing power-sharing and returning to direct rule from London would consign unionists to second class citizenship, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said today.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
BBC Northern Ireland political editor Mark Devenport at the DUP annual party conference.
Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
For those who follow Northern Ireland politics, there is one thing which happens from time-to-time, when the Democratic Unionist Party runs a candidate in a seat which is held by the Ulster Unionist Party (or which has recently been held by the UUP), and the unionist vote splits, leading to a nationalist, from the Social Democratic & Labour Party or Sinn Fein, either winning or coming close to...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
DUP leader Peter Robinson has told Republicans he will not be bossed about on the issue of the devolution of policing and justice. Mr Robinson told his party’s annual conference: “The last few weeks have witnessed republicans muttering darkly about an emergent political crisis and a threat to the existence of the Assembly. To my mind this is the clearest evidence that it is they and not...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
Amid all the political moaning, it's a relief to find one northern member of the younger generation who's not downcast with life. But even here, there's a catch… Northerners have had the distinct advantage or disadvantage, whatever way you might perceive it, of being under a separate state of economic governance, which has allowed us to escape the same economic depression that has forced many...
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