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Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O�Neill with party colleagues speaking to the media at Stormont in Belfast after the Assembly was adjourned as the DUP blocks the vote to elect a Speaker of the Assembly
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson claimed to have sent a “clear message” to the EU and the British government today when his party blocked the election of a new speaker at the Stormont Assembly.
The new 90 MLAs met for the first time in the Stormont chamber today after last week’s Northern Ireland Assembly election saw Sinn Fein emerge as the largest party for the first time.
As part of its protest against the Northern Ireland protocol, the DUP refused to nominate any of its members for the deputy first minister position, preventing a new executive from forming.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
