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Aontú Candidate and Hospital Campaigner Targeted With Loyalist Graffiti
Aontú candidate Sharon Loughran says her Newry home was targeted with loyalist graffiti reading "Aontú IRA out" and "UDA", which she has reported to police. Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD condemns the sectarian intimidation as an attack on the democratic process.
Community relations and legacy Health Original release: Aontú Candidate and Hospital Campaigner Targeted With Loyalist Graffiti (opens in a new tab)
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Transparency around Michael Watt essential to victims and to wider public, says Bradshaw
Alliance health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA praises victims of neurologist Michael Watt for pressing for the truth to be made public, after a court quashed a decision letting him leave the medical register without a public hearing. She says the Independent Neurology Inquiry exposed missed…
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Progress must be built on solid foundations
DUP Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says progress in Northern Ireland depends on cross-community consensus, warning that changes to institutions to exclude unionists would end power-sharing and urging Alliance to back future Protocol arrangements unionists can support.
Constitutional affairs International affairs Original release: Progress must be built on solid foundations (opens in a new tab)
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GAA Reversal on Cashless Policy Needs to Be Repeated All Over Ireland. – Brolly
Aontú Deputy Leader Gemma Brolly welcomes reports that Cork GAA is looking at ways to allow turnstile cash payments at county matches this summer. She calls for cash turnstile access at every match in all 32 counties, arguing the cashless policy excludes older people and those without internet…
Disability and equality Original release: GAA Reversal on Cashless Policy Needs to Be Repeated All Over Ireland. – Brolly (opens in a new tab)
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Aontú to Launch Largest Ever Election Candidate Team On Tuesday the 18th in Belfast
Aontú announces it will launch 19 candidates for the May local elections in the North on Tuesday 18 April in West Belfast, calling it its largest candidate team so far. Leader Peadar Tóibín TD says the team includes campaigners, educationalists and health workers.
Constitutional affairs Local government Original release: Aontú to Launch Largest Ever Election Candidate Team On Tuesday the 18th in Belfast (opens in a new tab)
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Mulholland says news of GP practice being saved a relief
Alliance North Antrim MLA Sian Mulholland welcomes news that the Kells and Connor Medical Practice, serving around 4,000 patients, will continue after Dalriada Urgent Care agreed to take it over from its departing contractor. She says she will meet the British Medical Association and Royal College…
Health Original release: Mulholland says news of GP practice being saved a relief (opens in a new tab)
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O’Neill welcomes recommitment from President Biden to investment during Belfast visit
Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill, First Minister Designate, welcomes President Biden's pledge to help draw investment and create jobs in the North, marking 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement. She urges the UK and Irish governments and the DUP to restore the Executive and institutions without…
Economy and employment International affairs Original release: O’Neill welcomes recommitment from President Biden to investment during Belfast visit (opens in a new tab)
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Neither Biden’s Bribery nor Sunak’s Lies alter the realities of the Windsor Whitewash
TUV leader Jim Allister says Biden's hint of economic aid for restoring Stormont is a bribe, and that operating Stormont under the Windsor Framework would mean assenting to the dismantling of the UK and an Irish Sea border. He says TUV will not accept the Windsor Framework.
Constitutional affairs International affairs Original release: Neither Biden’s Bribery nor Sunak’s Lies alter the realities of the Windsor Whitewash (opens in a new tab)
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Biden wouldn’t tolerate Protocol in US
TUV Mourne councillor Harold McKee says US President Biden's visit was unremarkable and that the US should mind its own business. He criticises Biden's praise of the Windsor Framework and calls on Unionists to resist pressure to implement the Protocol.
Constitutional affairs International affairs Original release: Biden wouldn’t tolerate Protocol in US (opens in a new tab)
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Hagan to contest Cookstown for TUV
TUV announces that Timothy Hagan, a mechanic and bandmaster of New Pride of the Village flute band, will stand for the party in Cookstown. He says he will campaign on social housing and a unionist voice in Mid Ulster Council, and opposes the Windsor Framework, calling for the Protocol to be…
Constitutional affairs Local government Original release: Hagan to contest Cookstown for TUV (opens in a new tab)
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Oliver to contest Portadown for TUV
TUV announces Robert Oliver as its candidate for Portadown in May's Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon council election, with leader Jim Allister commending him as representing traditional Unionist values. The release says TUV is fielding its largest ever team on ABC Council.
Local government Constitutional affairs Original release: Oliver to contest Portadown for TUV (opens in a new tab)
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UUP Leader meets President Biden in Belfast
UUP Leader Doug Beattie MC MLA says he was glad to engage directly with US President Biden during his Belfast visit, and calls for a restored Assembly and Executive to seize the opportunity. He says the USA can help deliver prosperity and pledges to work with the President's Administration.
International affairs Constitutional affairs Original release: UUP Leader meets President Biden in Belfast (opens in a new tab)
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Making the Case for Irish Unity in the EU – Dublin Launch
Sinn Féin MEP Chris MacManus and TD Rose Conway-Walsh are hosting a Dublin launch of an independent research paper by Professor Colin Harvey and Mark Bassett on the case for a united Ireland within the EU. They argue planning for reunification is needed and say the EU should take a supportive…
Constitutional affairs International affairs Original release: Making the Case for Irish Unity in the EU – Dublin Launch (opens in a new tab)
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President Biden visit a ‘special moment’ as we look to the future – O’Neill
Sinn Féin's First Minister Designate Michelle O'Neill welcomes President Biden's Belfast visit marking 25 years since the 1998 peace accord, and calls for US investment and a restored Executive, urging the DUP to return to power-sharing.
Constitutional affairs International affairs Original release: President Biden visit a ‘special moment’ as we look to the future – O’Neill (opens in a new tab)
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Nothing to celebrate in Biden visit
TUV leader Jim Allister says there is nothing to celebrate in US President Biden's visit, accusing Biden of partisanship over IRA extradition laws and of wasting £7m of public money while Northern Ireland's finances are stretched, and calling the Belfast Agreement a failure.
Constitutional affairs International affairs Original release: Nothing to celebrate in Biden visit (opens in a new tab)
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Aontú Selects Sharon Loughran to contest Newry DEA
Aontú candidate Sharon Loughran, a nurse at Daisy Hill Hospital A&E, says she is deeply concerned about plans to remove Emergency General Surgery from Daisy Hill and calls for all hospital services and Armagh's Minor Injuries Unit to be restored.
Health Original release: Aontú Selects Sharon Loughran to contest Newry DEA (opens in a new tab)
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Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald’s speech on the 100th anniversary of the death of Liam Lynch
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD delivers her address at the 100th anniversary commemoration for Liam Lynch in Anglesboro, Co Limerick, recalling his life, his final stand in the Knockmealdowns and his death in 1923.
Constitutional affairs Community relations and legacy Original release: Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald’s speech on the 100th anniversary of the death of Liam Lynch (opens in a new tab)
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No basis for a return to Stormont Prime Minister
TUV candidate Stewart Ferris says Unionists should reject the Prime Minister's appeal to restore a Stormont executive while the Protocol remains unresolved. He argues the Belfast Agreement's consent guarantees have been shown to be hollow and calls for a united Unionist stance against the…
Constitutional affairs International affairs Original release: No basis for a return to Stormont Prime Minister (opens in a new tab)
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Protecting and sustaining the Good Friday Agreement requires reform, says Long
Alliance Leader Naomi Long MLA says reform of the Good Friday Agreement's institutions is needed to sustain them, marking the 25th anniversary. She argues the rigid structures give less weight to non-aligned voters and calls for changes so no single party can collapse the Assembly and Executive.
Constitutional affairs Original release: Protecting and sustaining the Good Friday Agreement requires reform, says Long (opens in a new tab)
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Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD’s speech at annual Easter Rising Commemoration
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD says the Arbour Hill Easter Rising commemoration must honour the rebels’ sacrifice and protect historic sites such as Moore Street from developers, calling for a united, equal, economically just and fully free Ireland.
Constitutional affairs Housing Original release: Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD’s speech at annual Easter Rising Commemoration (opens in a new tab)