Chris Heaton-Harris

Sense of occasion felt throughout the Assembly Chamber as Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly acknowledged ‘historic moment’, with one lone dissenting TUV voice

There has always been a suspicion that Sinn Féin has never really wanted Northern Ireland to work, but there’s more to it than that

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says there will be ‘questions’ about the deal and its effect on trading arrangements but that as things stand there are no major ‘red flags’

Safeguarding the Union document welcomed by Rishi Sunak, Chris Heaton-Harris and Jeffrey Donaldson

EU to ‘analyse carefully’ agreement that pledges ‘unfettered access’ to Britain while removing most post-Brexit checks on goods

Deal will end routine checks on goods, food products and animals crossing from Britain into Northern Ireland

Heaton-Harris says details of deal to address DUP’s concerns over post-Brexit trade will be published on Wednesday

A small group of protesters holding banners emblazoned with ‘Stop DUP sell-out’ gathered outside Larchfield Estate

DUP leader criticised ‘stirring up’ as he rounded on hardline unionists

Two-year anniversary of the collapse of powersharing approaches as DUP comes under increasing pressure to end boycott of assembly

Latest walkout comes after mass strike by 170,000 public sector workers last week

SDLP’s Claire Hanna says ‘we’re all in this crazy waiting room’ while DUP’s ‘internal psychodramas’ set the pace

Some 170,000 public sector workers in the North are staging 24-hour strike in dispute over pay increases

Industrial action by nurses, teachers, bus and train drivers shuts schools and suspends public transport

The trade union movement is avoiding direct criticism of the DUP. And Donaldson can’t be seen to give in on the sea border to avoid embarrassment over public sector pay

A further attempt to recall Northern Ireland’s powersharing government failed on Wednesday, when the DUP did not support the nomination of a Speaker in the Northern Ireland Assembly

Always the fear that British government, with election looming, would switch off and leave North to its problems

Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill says DUP ‘inaction’ means public sector workers in NI ‘being punished’

No breakthrough expected despite mass walkout of 170,000 workers set to close schools and reduce health and transport services

Dispute will not aid relations between states but it is unlikely to worsen them as both sides seek to restore Stormont Assembly

Northern Secretary questions move to challenge contentious UK legislation in European Court of Human Rights

Alliance Party deputy leader says North in ‘farcical situation’ where majority voted for parties who want powersharing but now ‘isolated’ due to DUP’s boycott

The Government could have warned London privately of its intentions to take an inter-state case against the Troubles Legacy Act - which raises the question of whether the subsequent argument was staged, or played up for certain audiences

Mary Lou McDonald calls on Government to follow South Africa’s lead and bring proceedings against Israel to International Court of Justice

Package aimed at restoring Northen Ireland’s political institutions increased after initial offer rejected as too little

Reaching a deal to restore the powersharing Executive is a test of DUP leader’s ‘bottle’ and his ability to bring the more hardline members of his party with him

UK government offered Northern Ireland politicians £2.5bn to get Executive up and running, as serious demographic challenges loom

Ireland has the fiscal space; Northern Ireland has a fiscal floor – the minimum spending per head. A bidding war has broken out over what that figure should be

Technical discussions on London’s offer, worth an estimated £2.5bn, held at Hillsborough Castle

With new cash on the table for Northern Ireland, will this be seen as a final offer or an opening bid?

Offer by Chris Heaton-Harris may not be enough to fill budget gap with public sector pay rises due

Monday’s talks will be first round-table discussion between parties in a number of months

Sinn Féin’s Stormont leader has written to Northern Ireland Secretary saying the patience of the public has been tested ‘beyond all reasonable limits’ by impasse

Sinn Féin vice-president and leader in Stormont is set to become North’s first nationalist First Minister when assembly returns

Window for DUP to re-enter North’s power-sharing arrangement is rapidly closing

NI secretary questioned at Westminister committee about incident during trial over Troubles era deaths

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson opposes British taxpayers’ money funding the redevelopment of the GAA’s Casement Park in Belfast

UK Labour leader says Irish unity vote ‘not even on the horizon’ and ‘absolutely hypothetical’

Northern Ireland secretary’s conference speech in Manchester irks Irish officials by making no mention of Britain’s relationship with Republic

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