The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
THE MAKERS of the BBC1 documentary about the 1983 Maze prison escape were more interested in providing republicans with a platform on which to boast of their deeds than in a proper and balanced assessment of the escape, DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds has claimed.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Ignited over at Redemptions’s Son has an unconfirmed rumour that Nigel Dodds is going to run as the DUP’s candidate for next year’s European elections. That’s an interesting thought, but as the selection meeting has yet to take place probably previous. Not that there hasn’t been a great deal of internal speculation over who might (or might not) go for it. Two other names being bandied about are Jeffrey...
Redemption's Son (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
I do like my rumours and gossip so I'd thought I'd share the most recent whispering game that has been going about the political circles. Nigel Dodds MP MLA OBE will be the DUP candidate to contest the European Election in June 2009. Talk about a big hitter. Discuss.
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Counting in the Enniskillen council by-election following the death of the DUP's Joe Dodds - father of the party's deputy leader, Nigel Dodds.
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
News Letter 7 Sept 2008 THE DUP has met the leadership of both the UDA and the UVF in an effort to get the loyalist paramilitary organisations to lay down their guns, it has been revealed . A delegation of party leader Peter Robinson, deputy leader Nigel Dodds and MPs Jeffrey Donaldson and Sammy Wilson held separate meetings with both the armed groups in Belfast on Thursday. One of those present at...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
BBC 1 August 2008 The DUP has rebuffed an invitation to take part in the Irish parliament's Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Mr Dodds described the initiative as a pointless committee DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds said his party would not be participating in what he called a "pointless committee". Mr Dodds said the Belfast Agreement had been replaced "with a new...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
That’s the view of Northern Ireland First Minister , the DUP’s Peter Robinson. The quote didn’t make it to the BBC report which adds another instead - “Sinn Féin should get on with it and stop dragging their feet.” And DUP MP, and NI Finance Minister, Nigel Dodds joins the fray What really bugs Gerry Adams and why we are seeing this sort of childish behaviour from Sinn Fein is due to their frustration...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
THE Irish government’s Department of Foreign Affairs has saved the Apprentice Boys’ Maiden City Festival with a £27,000 donation. Meanwhile, DUP MP Nigel Dodds has urged the British government not to ‘bully and harass’ the Irish people for voting against the Lisbon Treaty.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
A by-election will be called in Enniskillen DEA of Fermanagh Council, following an objection from UUP Councillor Bertie Kerr to a DUP co-option to replace the recently deceased DUP Cllr Joe Dodds (father of Nigel Dodds). It appears it was not a UUP group decision to object. Two previous co-options to the Council (1 DUP and 1 SF) had gone through unopposed. The Enniskillen DEA is the only one in Fermanagh...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Jonathan Isaby isn’t happy and Nigel Dodds condemning MPs for not voting reform their expenses (although Brian got the blog ‘scoop’ on that one here ) and then not turning up for the vote themselves… If they want to play rough with the bigger boys , the DUP need to take the whole game a bit more seriously, not simply when you’re making a winning play… Another argument for having a separate cadre of...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
The Presumption of Death Bill might have been “introduced into the Assembly today by the Finance Minister, Nigel Dodds OBE MP, MLA”, but it’s origins lie with the then-Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Peter Hain. As with Mr Hain, Nigel Dodds links what should be a straight-forward, and logical, tidying up of the legal position of missing persons with the more politically charged and emotive issue...
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008
I agree with the decision by Finance Minister Nigel Dodds to decline public funding for a controversial plan by Education Minister Caitriona Ruane to send an explanatory leaflet setting out her views on post primary education.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
A multi-million pay out in back pay to low paid civil servants could impact upon public services, Nigel Dodds warns.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds condemns vandals who attacked a church on Friday night.
anticant's arena (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
[To a well-known West Country tune}: "Keith Vaz, Keith Vaz, lend me your grey hair, All along, down along, out along lea, And we’ll rustle up Anne Widdecombe fair, With Greg Campbell, Nigel Dodds, Jeffrey Donaldson, Bill McCrea, the Jolly Robinsons, Dave Simpson, Sammy Wilson, And Old Gaffer Paisley and All, Bless Old Gaffer Paisley and All."
