Edwin Poots calls for unionism to unite and end the bickering of the past after his DUP leadership win The newly-elected DUP leadership team of Edwin Poots and Paula Bradley. Picture by Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye/PA Wire 15 May, 2021 01:00
MP for Lagan Valley Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, leaves DUP headquarters after voting in the party s leadership election where he was defeated by Edwin Poots. Picture by Brian Lawless/PA Wire.
NEW DUP leader Edwin Poots has called for unionism to unite and end the bickering of the past.
In an acceptance speech that made no mention of nationalism or his political adversaries, the agriculture minister said he would be reaching out to his unionist counterparts in an effort to get unionism working together .
Northern Ireland’s troubled past and Brexit tensions are likely to dominate discussions between the Irish Premier and UK Prime Minister on Friday.
Boris Johnson has been dogged by criticism in recent days over his response to an inquest finding that 10 people killed in shootings involving the Army in the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast in 1971 were “entirely innocent”.
A Downing Street claim that the Prime Minister apologised on behalf of the state in a phone call with First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill was dismissed by the families as a “third-party apology”.
The families of the Ballymurphy victims and supporters wave white flags hours after a coroner ruled that the 10 people killed in the west Belfast shootings involving British soldiers in Ballymurphy in August 1971 were entirely innocent (Liam McBurney/PA)
Northern Ireland’s troubled past and Brexit tensions are likely to dominate discussions between the Irish Premier and UK Prime Minister on Friday.
Boris Johnson has been dogged by criticism in recent days over his response to an inquest finding that 10 people killed in shootings involving the Army in the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast in 1971 were “entirely innocent”.
A Downing Street claim that the Prime Minister apologised on behalf of the state in a phone call with First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill was dismissed by the families as a “third-party apology”.
The families of the Ballymurphy victims and supporters wave white flags hours after a coroner ruled that the 10 people killed in the west Belfast shootings involving British soldiers in Ballymurphy in August 1971 were entirely innocent (Liam McBurney/PA)
Northern Ireland’s troubled past and Brexit tensions are likely to dominate discussions between the Irish Premier and UK Prime Minister on Friday.
Boris Johnson has been dogged by criticism in recent days over his response to an inquest finding that 10 people killed in shootings involving the Army in the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast in 1971 were “entirely innocent”.
A Downing Street claim that the Prime Minister apologised on behalf of the state in a phone call with First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill was dismissed by the families as a “third-party apology”.
The families of the Ballymurphy victims and supporters wave white flags hours after a coroner ruled that the 10 people killed in the west Belfast shootings involving British soldiers in Ballymurphy in August 1971 were entirely innocent (Liam McBurney/PA)