Ulster Unionist Party

Political fallout from Jeffrey Donaldson’s conviction shows no signs of going away

UUP is latest of four inquiries announced in wake of former politician’s conviction for child sex abuse

UUP announces ‘independent confidential’ review into Jeffrey Donaldson

Former MP for Lagan Valley was convicted at Newry Crown Court last month of 18 sex offences

DUP may be destroyed by Jeffrey Donaldson scandal

Unhappy voters stay at home, so unionism could cease to be Stormont’s largest designation next May

Unity supporters must be prepared to make Northern Ireland work, says leading unionist

‘A Border poll will come at some stage, but that’s not where we are now’, former UUP senator tells SDLP conference

Jury took 10 hours to decide Jeffrey Donaldson was guilty, 10 minutes to deliver verdict

Former DUP leader remanded in custody following conviction for 18 counts including rape of child

‘It was all lies’: Brexit remorse in Northern Ireland

For many, leaving the EU has not strengthened their place in the UK, but weakened it by creating a border in the Irish Sea

‘Take Mr Donaldson down’: The rise and fall of former DUP star Jeffrey Donaldson

Politician once won praise in Westminster and Washington, but on Monday was being processed in prison

Unionists have begun to think of themselves as a minority

A plan to raise the age of criminal responsibility fell apart when three unionist parties blocked it

Former UUP leader Doug Beattie leaves party over ‘toxic atmosphere’

MLAs ‘marginalised, ignored, isolated and discredited’ by new leader, Beattie says in statement

Sinn Féin condemns dissident violence, but does it truly back the police?

Part of the aim of dissident violence is to embarrass the party by forcing it to condemn what it once supported

‘Day of reckoning’: Former teacher (77) jailed for indecently assaulting four girls in 1970s

Judge says conviction of William Lloyd-Lavery should be a warning to other paedophiles to live in fear of crimes catching up with them

Unionists and Sinn Féin are like Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael – desperate to be loved

Populist giveaways and overstaffing are costing Northern Ireland a shocking €3.3bn a year

Absence of religious fervour in debate about Sunday shopping in North is suspicious

The classic image of Sunday closure in Northern Ireland is of unionist councils chaining up playground swing in the 1960s – the non-swinging '60s

‘Extremely disappointing’: Cool reception for £17m Northern Ireland home-heating oil package

Keir Starmer unveils £52m of support for UK homes struggling with price rises triggered by Iran conflict

Starmer calls for more UK-Irish co-operation in ‘age of dramatic uncertainty’

UK PM arrives in Cork after addressing fuel cost concerns in North

UUP leader might have point about an Irish Government apology for conduct in Troubles

Saying sorry may not be on the agenda, but some serious reflection about State’s behaviour is warranted

Call for Ireland to apologise for the Troubles is a desperate stretch

Jon Burrows’s comparison between Bloody Sunday and Ireland’s failure to extradite terrorists will have offended nationalists and left unionists bemused

Martin rejects call for State apology for its conduct during the Troubles

Government ‘fought tooth and nail against the Provisional IRA’, Taoiseach says

Ireland should apologise for ‘unjustifiable conduct’ during Troubles, says new UUP leader

Jon Burrows criticises ‘double standard on legacy’, but stresses respect and good relationships

Ulster Unionists preparing to lead unionism again, new leader says

Jon Burrows, a former senior police officer, ratified alongside MLA Diana Armstrong as deputy

UUP considers DUP invitation to unionist co-operation talks

Past agreements have aimed to maximise unionist vote and secure seats in certain constituencies

Will UUP’s ‘enthusiastic, articulate’ new leader halt the party’s decline?

Former PSNI senior officer Jon Burrows was selected as an MLA for North Antrim only a few months ago

Next UUP leader to be former police officer Jon Burrows

Only candidate put their name forward for the leadership by the close of nominations

Former police officer vows to ‘arrest stagnation’ in run to lead Ulster Unionist Party

Jon Burrows, co-opted to Assembly seat, says he would aim to attract more women and younger people to party

Mike Nesbitt to step down as leader of Ulster Unionist Party

Strangford MLA indicates wish to remain as Minister of Health, but that decision to rest with successor

Unionists outdoing each other on questions about nativity plays and witchcraft in schools

Ruling on religion in schools has handed unionists a whole new culture war playground

‘People here are horrified’: Irish-language signs vandalised in affluent east Belfast

The PSNI describes it as ‘hate-motivated criminal damage’, while a TUV member calls it ‘probably the most predictable crime in Northern Ireland’

Dublin must own up to its Troubles sins, says former Ulster Unionist leader

Lord Tom Elliott noted that Omagh bomb victims had called for parallel inquiry in the Republic

United Ireland could result in unionists holding Dáil’s balance of power, UUP leader says

Mike Nesbitt warns ‘biggest threat’ to NI remaining part of UK is English nationalism

Why are the parties of Northern Ireland’s centre at each other’s throats?

If Alliance, SDLP and UUP cannot offer alternative to Sinn Féin-DUP, it is hard to see what they are for

David Trimble: Peacemaker – A man easy to lampoon, but courageous and willing to take risks

Stephen Walker’s book doesn’t attempt a deep psychological explanation, but offers a reminder of the scale of Trimble’s achievement

An orange-green split is looming over Lough Neagh

The visible decline of the lough this summer shocked people living around it, including in several heartland Sinn Féin constituencies

Belfast Agreement referendum vote ‘saved’ by U2’s concert, new book says

UUP leader David Trimble initially refused to take off his jacket, saying: ‘I don’t do that’

Rev Martin Smyth obituary: Staunchly anti-agreement former Ulster Unionist MP and Orange Order leader

He tried to implicate Charles Haughey in an IRA gun-running plot during the 1980s

UK move to lower voting age to 16 unlikely to be in place for Northern Irish elections

First Minister Michelle O’Neill says UK law change is a ‘step forward for democracy’ but DUP opposes lowering voting age

A GP strike could be the beginning of the end of free primary care in Northern Ireland

Minister for Health Mike Nesbitt’s negotiating tactics are remarkably aggressive. Has he overplayed his hand?

Unionists and Sinn Féin have ‘common goal’ of making NI work, says Ulster Unionist leader

SF must make idea of Irish unity ‘look attractive to people in Dublin and Limerick and Galway’, says Mike Nesbitt

Unionists are enjoying the pile-on over the Republic’s defence freeloading

Ireland is facing international criticism and it’s only natural that unionists want to join in. But incomprehension over support for neutrality is also a factor

Alan Gilsenan: ‘I would have had a dreamy, artsy-fartsy notion that a united Ireland would be great’

In The Irish Question, his new documentary, the film-maker asks what reunification of the island would really mean

North, South and across party lines, voters are open to remaking Ireland’s institutions after reunification

Different changes draw varying levels of support and hostility, but change in general has backing

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