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Committee seeks minutes of minister’s meeting with Loyalist Communities Council

A DUP minister’s Assembly scrutiny committee is to formally request the minutes of his meeting with a group that includes representatives of loyalist paramilitary gangs. Communities Minister Gordon Lyons met the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) on ...

10 Oct 2024 at 12:12

Northern Ireland

Lyons did not ‘directly’ ask for end to criminality during LCC meeting

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons said he did not directly ask representatives of loyalist paramilitary gangs to end criminality during a meeting with an umbrella group. However, he told MLAs that he had made clear to the Loyalist Communities ...

24 Oct 2024 at 12:39

Northern Ireland

Givan hits back over meetings with group linked to loyalist paramilitaries

Education Minister Paul Givan has accused political parties, which criticised his meeting with a group linked to loyalist paramilitaries, of hypocrisy. During heated exchanges at the Assembly, Mr Givan referred to members of his own family ...

14 Oct 2024 at 16:37

Northern Ireland

Public inquiry ordered into collusion-linked murder of solicitor Pat Finucane

The Government has ordered a public inquiry into the collusion-linked loyalist paramilitary murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989. Mr Finucane, 39, was shot dead at his family home in north Belfast in February 1989 by the ...

11 Sept 2024 at 14:16

Northern Ireland

‘Important for ministers to listen to all’ – Lyons

It is important for Stormont ministers to listen to everyone, Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has said. He made the comments after his DUP party colleague and Education Minister Paul Givan faced criticism for meeting a group ...

26 Sept 2024 at 15:17

Northern Ireland

Attending ‘glorifying events’ normalises terrorist violence, says Arlene Foster

Former Northern Ireland first minister Baroness Arlene Foster has said the attendance of senior members of Sinn Fein at “glorifying events” results in the normalisation of violence. Sinn Fein MP for North Belfast John ...

07 Jun 2023 at 14:37

Northern Ireland

Co Derry GAA official killed by loyalists was ‘fair-minded and treated everyone the same’

A man killed by loyalists 26 years ago has been described as a “fair-minded person who treated everybody the same”. The widow of Sean Brown, 61, a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) official who was abducted and ...

30 Mar 2023 at 18:33

Jamie Bryson says he has no regrets over posts from DUP meeting

Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson has said he has no regrets about posting live social media updates from a confidential DUP meeting over a Government deal to address concerns over post-Brexit trading ...

30 Jan 2024 at 15:53

Placing of picture of Taoiseach on loyalist bonfire investigated by police

Police are investigating the placing of an Irish flag and a picture of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on a loyalist bonfire in Co Tyrone as a “hate crime”. The towering pyre in Moygashel, themed as an ...

09 Jul 2023 at 17:06

Local News

Inquest into 1997 shooting of County Derry GAA official Sean Brown to open in March

The first stage of an inquest into the fatal shooting of a GAA official in Co Derry 26 years ago is set to open next month. Sean Brown, 61, was abducted in Bellaghy by loyalist terrorists and ...

22 Feb 2023 at 21:33

Northern Ireland

PM discusses city and growth deals with O’Neill and Little-Pengelly

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has spoken to Stormont’s leaders about city and growth deals during the first meeting of the Council of Nations and Regions in Scotland. Northern Ireland’s ...

11 Oct 2024 at 15:03

Ireland

O’Neill insists she can still lead as First Minister in stormy committee meeting

Michelle O’Neill has said she is confident she can continue to lead in the office of First Minister during a heated session of her Stormont scrutiny committee. Ms O’Neill told MLAs that ...

23 Oct 2024 at 16:47

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