Former Alliance leader and the first Stormont Speaker Lord Alderdice has said that pace of the “inevitable trajectory . towards de facto joint authority” has “quickened markedly” following recent political developments and the results of local government election.
Westminster will not be introducing direct rule as Northern Ireland has come to know it if agreement cannot be reached over the Assembly’s return, a former Ulster Unionist leader has said.
A Limerick-based lecturer is an artist behind a monumental artwork series of large-scale silent video portraits of the 14 politicians who negotiated the Good Friday agreement.