Riot police officers walk near a fire during the fourth night of unrest following a protest over an alleged sexual assault on a local teenage girl, in Portadown, Northern Ireland, on June 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A fourth night of anti-immigrant unrest in Northern Ireland left another 22 officers injured, police said Friday … Read more
A second night of rioting struck the town of Ballymena in Northern Ireland on Tuesday, as anti-immigrant protests spread to several other areas and police warned of “hate-fueled acts.” Homes, businesses and vehicles were again attacked in Ballymena, a town of about 31,000 people, where several properties were set on fire Monday night following a … Read more
A fierce storm knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland and threatened to disrupt travel across Britain on Friday, one last punch from a weather pattern that has already delivered bitter cold and record-breaking snow to parts of the United States. Damaging gales from the storm, which is named Eowyn, are … Read more
Sheltered from the rain in a doorway in the heart of London’s swish Green Park area, last Thursday, was a 47-year-old woman, who was waiting for her car to be brought around. At that moment, the woman, Michelle O’Neill, looked like just another Londoner trying to avoid the rain. She is anything but. Just days … Read more
Newly elected First Minister Michelle O’Neill speaks during a meeting of the legislative assembly at Stormont in Belfast, Northern Ireland, February 3, 2024. | Photo Credit: VIA REUTERS Northern Ireland has begun a “decade of opportunity” during which it will hold a vote on unification with Ireland, the U.K. territory’s first nationalist leader said in … Read more
London CNN — Britain and the European Union have reached an agreement on new trade rules in Northern Ireland in an attempt to resolve a thorny issue that has fueled post-Brexit tensions in Europe and on the island of Ireland. The deal could potentially resolve the issue of imports and border checks in Northern Ireland, … Read more
LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Union leader Ursula von der Leyen are set to hold face-to-face talks, with expectations high they will seal a deal to resolve a thorny post-Brexit trade dispute. That would mark a breakthrough after months of bitter wrangling that has soured U.K.-EU relations, sparked the collapse of the … Read more
CNN — President Joe Biden is expected to name former congressman Joe Kennedy III as his special envoy to Northern Ireland for economic affairs, according to two people familiar with the plans, installing a member of one of the United States’ most famous political families to the post at a critical moment for the region. … Read more
As a former Labour parliamentary candidate for Bolton West, a Tory marginal situated among the ‘Red Wall’ seats, I cannot imagine a situation in which its constituents or any of those in the neighbouring seats would vote at the next election for a larger state and even higher taxes. They didn’t want a Corbyn and … Read more
[The agreement] entails Plaid Cymru transforming itself from a traditional opposition party in the Westminster sense to something new and refreshingly different, a co-opposition party, co-operating where possible, while continuing to oppose, and to scutinise and criticise where necessary. There is no precedent for what we are about to embark upon in the politics of … Read more