British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to do the “right thing” and restore the power-sharing executive and assembly at Stormont. Sunak made the comments on Wednesday night during a speech at Queen’s University in Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. The…

A change in law inspired by the plight of a six-year-old heart transplant patient has become a touchstone issue in political debate surrounding post-Brexit Northern Ireland. Belfast schoolboy Dáithí Mac Gabhann, who has been waiting on a new heart for five years, became the name and face of his parents’ successful campaign to increase the number…

A Sinn Fein proposal to temporarily ban travel from Britain on Monday failed to pass through the Northern Ireland (NI) Assembly in a divided vote, as over 40 countries cut off travel to the UK after a new variant of the CCP virus was identified in the South of England. As a compromise, the NI executive…