Archive: Northern Ireland

Confirmed: Northern Ireland has no back-up plan for a hard border

In case of a no-deal, Northern Ireland will have a hard border but it's not prepared for it.

Northern Ireland transport receives £400M

Support for major new road investment in Northern Ireland is promised by the Conservative’s new ‘confidence and supply’ agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party.
BASC strengthens Northern Ireland team

BASC Northern Ireland has appointed longstanding volunteer Jonny Orr to its team based in Lisburn.
Northern Ireland students rally to the STEM cause

Today’s publication of GCSE exam results in Northern Ireland reveals continued high performance by students, particularly in maths.
BASC: No change to Northern Ireland bird pest control

Laws which cover control of pest birds in Northern Ireland are to remain unchanged for the next 12 months. General licences are issued by government agencies to provide a legal basis for people to use a range of methods to control certain species of birds classed as pests.

The Politics.co.uk Podcast - abortion laws in Northern Ireland

Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Dr Ruth Fletcher, Senior Lecturer in Medical Law at Queen Mary University, and Lisa Hallgarten, Policy Manager at Brook, to discuss abortion laws in Northern Ireland.
N.Ireland isn't being 'annexed' - Brexit chickens are coming home to roost

All the EU is doing is presenting the legal reality of the UK's own demands

The Irish border and the revenge of Game Theory

This is why we are still likely to end up with some kind of border in Ireland
Have we gone through all this for a border that might not exist when we leave the EU?

There is now a real prospect that support for Irish unity will reach critical mass

Housing inequality returns to Northern Ireland as the DUP chases votes in Protestant areas

Stormont has lost £1m of public money buying social housing land in parts of Belfast where little demand exists
The government must act to rescue Northern Irish power-sharing

Northern Ireland secretary James Brokenshire always tries to avoid the last problem rather than avoiding the next one

'Burning but flourishing': The frenzied religious politics of the DUP

A brutal, tribal and self-pitying party which will not welcome the heightened media attention it is receiving
A deal between the Tories and the DUP will be a disaster for Northern Irish politics

A deal with the DUP will only make the current situation in Northern Ireland worse

Martin McGuinness: A life of two halves

Martin McGuinness' life shows us what happens when politics doesn't work and when it does
Northern Ireland is leaving the union - it's only a question of when

We're fast approaching Northern Ireland's endgame

Brexit could spell the death of Northern Ireland

The risks of Brexit breaking up the UK are very real
We must fight back against the war on women's reproductive rights

Pro-choice campaigners have been left reeling in recent weeks

Comment: The court abortion ruling which puts Northern Irish women at risk

A bar on Northern Irish women getting free abortions on the NHS means only the rich can plan their family.
Why is Jeremy Hunt appealing against his own powers?

Health secretary insists he has no power to overrule anti-gay Northern Ireland law, in bizarre legal case.

Comment: Serving in Ireland taught me the nature of political Islam

Whether it's Shankill Road or Bradford, many peoples' fate is arguably determined by the accident of birth.
WATCH: The re-imaging of Sandy Row

Thousands of still images tell the story of a week when the local community and artist Ross Wilson painted over a paramilitary gunman and replaced it with 'A Portrait of a King' - a mural of King William III.