Peter Robinson

The speech Peter Robinson should give

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday

Fair Deal, David Gordon and I wrote three short speeches we thought Peter Robinson should give to the DUP faithful tomorrow. Read them here .

Northern Ireland leader in power-sharing vow

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago

NORTHERN Ireland first minister Peter Robinson yesterday admitted he cannot guarantee the future of the legislative assembly, but pledged his Democratic Unionist Party would

• Northern Ireland: first minister vows not to abandon assembly - The Guardian

Not living in caves

BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | yesterday

I'm just back from the rain sodden La Mon hotel in County Down where I was helping out on our live coverage of the DUP conference. I've been asked to contribute a "colour " piece to our main news website so you should hopefully be able to see my more extened thoughts there. In brief, though, this was a well attended occasion in which the party staked its round for the next election. It has...

The BBC soundbite from the DUP conference…

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday

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...

“I warn those unionist cave-dwellers who seek to wreck our achievements…”

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday

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...

DUP 'cannot guarantee assembly'

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson admits he cannot guarantee the future of the assembly.

DUP in pledge over power-sharing

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

NI First Minister Peter Robinson admits he cannot guarantee the future of the assembly, but says the DUP will not walk away.

Senator Byron Dorgan Has A Health Care Bill Problem

Say Anything (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

An interesting analysis from Peter Robinson, who notes that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs 60 votes to pass the health care bill but may have a difficult time finding them from among his Senate colleagues . How many senators now caucus with the Democrats? Sixty—the very number Reid needs. Yet one of the 60, Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, has already indicated that he intends to support...

DUP should have 'sold' SF coalition to faithful

Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

The DUP should have taken more time to “sell” its decision to go into government with Sinn Fein, First Minister Peter Robinson has admitted.

“It is like a terminal illness…”

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

“The days of sitting at the back of the bus are over.” The defiant words of a senior republican who fears the DUP and its leader Peter Robinson are determined to wreck the architecture of the Good Friday Agreement and the principle of power sharing. The source added:

Pressing ahead?

BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

The DUP has released a 35 page document on the eve of its annual conference under the optimistic title of "Building On Success". If you were to read Peter Robinson's foreword you might conclude that the party is about make a great leap forward. The party leader says that "once again unionism faces a choice in the next few years. Do we build on what we have achieved or risk throwing...

Vital Signs' Book It! Discussions -- You Oughta' Get In On This.

Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Earlier this week we had a terrific Book It! discussion over here (with the carpet finally in, we had moved our living room furniture back where it belonged) as we discussed C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, his classic investigation of spiritual warfare, virtue, perseverance, prayer and so much more. One of my all-time favorites, I have probably read The Screwtape Letters a dozen times in the last...

We need another Massareene moment soon

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Brian Feeney, historian of Sinn Fein, Round Britain Quiz panellist and Irish News columnist, is gloating over the perceived discomfiture of Peter Robinson as he tries to find firm ground in his troubled party. The latest pimple Brian has been picking at is the police reserve issue which actually appears to have been finessed. Peter seems to working his way through the divisive issues one by one. He...

Robinson dismisses report on past over 'moral ambivalence'

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

DUP LEADER Peter Robinson has dismissed the Eames-Bradley proposals for addressing the past and accused Lord Eames and Denis Bradley and other members of their group of engaging in an exercise in moral equivalence and ambivalence.

Robinson rejects 'appalling' Troubles legacy report

Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Proposals to deal with the legacy of the Troubles were today rejected by Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson.