Brexit was always going to trample on someone's rights. If the United Kingdom was going to leave the Customs Union and the Single Market then there had to be a hard border somewhere.
As they did the usual tour of Sunday morning political talk shows, unionists must surely have been thinking that the old cliche about a week being a long time in politics urgently needs to be updated. A day is now an eternity.
Alliance leader Naomi Long has confirmed her party will not attend Monday's recall of the Assembly, calling it a "cynical political stunt".
Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer has said the Labour Party's "door is open" to the DUP following their opposition to Boris Johnson's Brexit deal.
Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald has said today's vote at Westminster will do nothing to allay the Brexit fears of workers, businesses or farmers.
The sudden death of a man in east Belfast has been determined as not suspicious, police have confirmed.
The loudest sound you could hear in the House of Commons just before 3pm was the sigh of relief from the DUP.
MPs have voted for an amendment to force the Prime Minister to seek an extension to Brexit, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on Boris Johnson.
DUP Brexit spokesman Sammy Wilson has said his party would be "failing in its duty" if it did not use all means at its disposal to change Boris Johnson's Brexit deal.
The House of Commons faces an historic showdown as Boris Johnson fights to have his Brexit deal ratified by MPs on what is being called super Saturday.
Political leaders have been urged to "face up to their responsibility" as MLAs return to Stormont in a last-ditch bid to stop reform of Northern Ireland's abortion law.
The 1,000 days without an Executive or an Assembly came and went with hardly a flutter of an eyelid.
Former UUP leader David Trimble has backed Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, describing the Prime Minister's proposals as a "great step forward".
The DUP has said today's crunch House of Commons vote is "too close to call" as it intensively lobbies MPs to oppose the Prime Minister's deal.
Boris Johnson denied that he had broken a promise to the DUP as he launched a staunch last-ditch defence of his Brexit plan.
Today is potentially one of the most momentous days in unionist political history. A vote in favour of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal will fundamentally reshape Northern Ireland’s place in the UK, in economic terms at least.
DUP MP Ian Paisley has said that his party will not allow itself to be used as a "puppet" to keep Boris Johnson in power and then be disposed of.
Former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and John Major have said that Boris Johnson's Brexit deal is a threat to peace in Northern Ireland.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar's attempts to reassure unionists Boris Johnson's Brexit deal was not threat to the constitutional position of Northern Ireland have fallen flat with the DUP blasting them as "offensive".
Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney has said the proposed Brexit deal does not pose a threat to the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.
The Ulster Farmers’ Union has said Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal is “complex and bureaucratic” in its first assessment of the plans.
An Orange Order lodge has apologised to Belfast City Council after a loyalist band paraded inside City Hall last weekend.
The DUP's opposition to Boris Johnson's Brexit deal took centre stage in Friday's papers after the government struck a deal with Brussels.
UUP MLA Doug Beattie has tabled his own recall petition to have Stormont sit for a second day on Tuesday.
Police investigating the sudden death of a man, understood to have been a stabbing, in east Belfast have arrested a 26-year-old man.
Former Northern Ireland First Minister and former leader of the UUP David Trimble has backed Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, describing it as a "great step forward".
Jon Tonge analyses some key parts of revised Brexit deal agreed by UK and EU
Former DUP Finance Minister Simon Hamilton gave the Brexit deal a cautious welcome yesterday as ex-party colleagues rejected it on the basis of customs, consent and VAT provisions.
"It's awesome. The sooner we're out, the better!"
Former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has warned that Boris Johnson's last-minute Brexit deal with the EU risks breaking up the United Kingdom and leading to a united Ireland.
MLAs are to return to the Stormont chamber for the first time in more than 1,000 days after a petition to recall the Assembly received the 30 signatures necessary.
Boris Johnson beaming from ear-to-ear amid bonhomie and backslapping with EU leaders in Brussels.
Arlene Foster has insisted that her party still has influence at Westminster after the Prime Minister reached a deal with Brussels despite strong DUP opposition.
We want to get Northern Ireland moving again. We want Brexit to be delivered and devolution restored. That's what most people want.
A border poll is now likely within the next 10 years if political parties can learn to work together, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said.
Boris Johnson’s deal with the EU is a U-turn extraordinary even by his considerable chameleonic standards.
I’ve mentioned a number of times in the last few months that Boris Johnson would probably present the DUP with a fait accompli. And now he has — albeit one that seems immeasurably worse than Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement.
The man in charge of Northern Ireland's health service has said he cannot afford to pay for lifesaving treatments and pay rises for staff while also tackling hospital waiting lists.
The DUP has accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of agreeing to the EU's demands on a Brexit deal to avoid having to ask for an extension.
The Stormont Assembly is set to sit for the first time since 2017 on Monday after over 30 MLAs backed a recall petition.
Boris Johnson has said his Brexit deal is fair, balanced and is a testament to the Government's commitment to finding solutions.
The DUP has said it will not support the Prime Minister's new Brexit deal with the EU, warning the agreement was economically harmful, not in the long term interests of Northern Ireland and undermined the integrity of the Union.
A deal has been done on Brexit which could allow the UK to leave the EU at the end of the month.
A former senior Dublin government minister has said he is "deeply uncomfortable" with the prosecution of Soldier F over events on Bloody Sunday 47 years ago.
A Brexit deal has been agreed between the EU and the UK.
Steve Aiken, who is the front-runner in the race to become UUP leader, has said the UK would be better off remaining in the EU than taking the latest proposed Brexit deal.
The DUP has been quick to make clear its grievances with Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.
The former Ulster Unionist group leader on Belfast City Council has said neither Steve Aiken nor Doug Beattie are fit to lead the party and both "belong in Alliance".
The DUP has refused to be bounced into backing Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal as pressure mounted on the party ahead of Thursday's EU summit.
A Government source has said that a Brexit deal is unlikely to be agreed on Wednesday evening.
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