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July 2024

  • A woman pushing a pram looks at her phone next to a polling station

    Rise of smaller parties: key takeaways from voting patterns in UK election

    Analysis of data from the 4 July ballot tells other stories beyond Labour landslide and Conservative collapse
  • O'Neill McDonald hold Cullen's hands in the air as they stand at each side of her, while other party members clap and cheer

    Sinn Féin becomes Northern Ireland’s biggest Westminster party

    Voters turn against DUP which loses North Antrim seat held for over 50 years by Ian Paisley and his late father
  • Sinn Féin leaders Michelle O'Neill and Mary Lou McDonald celebrate as Cathal Mallaghan is elected MP for Mid Ulster

    Sinn Féin on course to have more MPs than any other Northern Ireland party

    DUP loses Lagan Valley seat vacated by former leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Ian Paisley defeated in North Antrim

June 2024

  • Nigel Farage

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Nigel Farage takes part in Question Time election special – as it happened

    The leader of Reform UK was questioned by an audience in Birmingham as election campaigning enters its final days
  • Party leaders on stage

    Northern Ireland politicians clash over health, the union, and Israel-Gaza war in TV debate – as it happened

    Representatives from DUP, Sinn Féin, UUP, SDLP and Alliance to face off from 9pm
  • Kemi Badenoch David Tennant

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    David Tennant should have been more respectful when criticising Badenoch over LGBT views, says Starmer – as it happened

    ‘I think it’s right that we have these robust discussions, but we must do it respectfully,’ Starmer said

May 2023

  • Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O’Neill (left) and president Mary Lou McDonald at Belfast City Hall as the election count continued.

    Sinn Féin hail ‘momentous’ result as party set to become largest in NI councils

  • Northern Ireland council elections: photo shows Belfast City Hall with a graphical overlay

    Northern Ireland council elections: all the latest results

January 2023

  • James Cleverly speaks to the media at Saintfield Garden Centre and Nursery in Belfast on 11 January.

    Cleverly’s Brexit talks left in disarray by Sinn Féin and SDLP no-shows

    Sinn Féin accuses UK government of ‘Tory petulance’ claiming its leader Mary Lou McDonald had been excluded from the talks

October 2022

  • The Edward Carson statue at Stormont

    Groundhog Day: why another Northern Ireland election looks like insanity

  • Ireland for G2 cover 221006

    ‘It’s closer now than it’s ever been’: could there soon be a united Ireland?

September 2022

  • Peter Kyle, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, at a Labour conference fringe event

    Shadow minister’s border poll remarks alarm Northern Ireland’s unionists

  • Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris

    Northern Ireland power sharing slips to 2023 as few relish a winter election

June 2022

  • Sarah Feeney Morrison plays a younger version of her mother Mary Feeney, who was 15 in 1973 when an IRA sniper killed her sister Kathleen.

    Stories of children killed in the Troubles to be told to MPs

    Relatives and friends of the six victims will narrate their stories in a committee room at Portcullis House

May 2022

  • Michelle O’Neill

    DUP blocks attempt to appoint Northern Ireland assembly speaker

    Sinn Féin vice-president pledges to continue efforts to break deadlock after nominees fail to secure cross-community support

January 2022

  • A mural in Derry depicting events from Bloody Sunday

    The Guardian view on the Bloody Sunday anniversary: the legacy remains

    Editorial: Even 50 years later, the killings in Derry in 1972 cast a long shadow over Britain’s policies in Northern Ireland

November 2021

  • Austin Currie death<br>File photo dated 24/08/2018 of Austin Currie, one of the founding members of the SDLP and a key figure at the beginning of Northern Ireland’s civil rights movement, has died at the age of 82 at his home in Derrymullen, Co Kildare. Issue date: Tuesday November 9, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story DEATH Currie . Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

    Austin Currie obituary

  • Austin Currie death<br>File photo dated 24/08/2018 of Austin Currie, one of the founding members of the SDLP and a key figure at the beginning of Northern Ireland’s civil rights movement, has died at the age of 82 at his home in Derrymullen, Co Kildare. Issue date: Tuesday November 9, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story DEATH Currie . Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

    Northern Ireland: SDLP founder member Austin Currie dies aged 82

September 2021

  • Social Democratic and Labour Party leader John Hume (R) gives a thumbs up sign with his wife Pat, on his way into the election count for the new Northern Ireland Assembly June 26. Counting for the 108 seat assembly takes place across Northen Ireland today but a full result may not be known until the weekend.

DC<br>2D59NKM Social Democratic and Labour Party leader John Hume (R) gives a thumbs up sign with his wife Pat, on his way into the election count for the new Northern Ireland Assembly June 26. Counting for the 108 seat assembly takes place across Northen Ireland today but a full result may not be known until the weekend.
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    Pat Hume obituary

    Teacher and wife of the SDLP politician John Hume, she provided stalwart support to her husband as he played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace process

December 2020

  • Nicola Sturgeon speaks during the debate at the Scottish parliament on the trade and co-operation agreement between the UK and the EU.

    Holyrood and Stormont reject 'disastrous' Brexit trade deal

    Scottish and Northern Irish parliaments condemn deal in symbolic votes as Westminster backs it
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