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Arlene Foster

Arlene Foster is a former DUP politician and Northern Ireland First Minister

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Talks need to begin over scrapping mandatory coalition, says Arlene Foster

Discussions need to begin on scrapping mandatory coalition, former First Minister Arlene Foster has said.

John Finucane, Mary Lou McDonald, Michelle O’Neill and Michelle Gildernew

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Suzanne Breen Opinion With five weeks to go until Northern Ireland election, Sinn Fein remain in pole position

The DUP hasn’t quite reached the stage where it needs to pray to St Jude, the patron saint of lost causes.

Mother’s Day: Former First Minister Arlene Foster treated her mum Georgina Kelly to lunch

Love, laughter and tears... how NI’s famous faces celebrated ‘special mums’

Mammy, mummy, ma, or just plain old favourite mum.

A woman entering a polling station in east Belfast

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LucidTalk boss defends election polling as a sign of Northern Ireland becoming ‘a normal society’

Whether you come to praise or bury opinion polls, there is no doubting the central position they are starting to occupy on the political landscape here.

Paul Bell resigned from the DUP in the aftermath of Arlene Foster's departure but returned when Sir Jeffrey Donaldson replaced Edwin Poots as party leader.

DUP veteran who quit after ousting of Arlene Foster ‘delighted’ to run for party in Assembly election

A veteran DUP member who quit after the ousting of Arlene Foster says he is “delighted” to be running for the party in the Assembly election.

Pragmatist: Martin McGuinness (right) with Gerry Adams in 1987. Credit: PA

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Martin McGuinness: ‘History will judge him kinder than Gerry Adams. He earned that right’

The last political act an ailing Martin McGuinness carried out was to announce his resignation as deputy First Minister, pulling the plug on Stormont in the wake of the RHI scandal.

Pressure: Sir Jeffrey Donaldson at Stormont. Credit: Brian Lawless

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Claire McNeilly Opinion DUP now a party that appears to be making it up as it goes along

As anni horribiles go, this last one has been catastrophic for the DUP.

Copies of the published report from Sir Patrick Coghlin's Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) public inquiry outside Stormont in Belfast. Credit: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

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Up to £660m of RHI money may go unspent by Stormont

Stormont is on course to waste at least £420m — and perhaps as much as £660m — over the next 20 years due to its failure to find a way to spend Treasury funding made available to Northern Ireland for subsidising renewable heat.

Taoiseach Micheal Martin (right) with London-based Ukrainian Natalia Lesyuk (left) during the St Patrick’s Day parade in London. Credit: James Manning/PA

DUP and Sinn Fein will attend St Patrick’s Day celebrations at White House

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson will not be attending this year’s traditional White House celebrations for St Patrick’s Day in order to deal with events at home, the DUP has said.

Challenges: Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. Credit: Liam McBurney

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Allison Morris Opinion Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is fighting fires on all sides in a deeply divided party

It’s been a week when politics came together on a personal level, to send heartfelt sympathies to a grieving family, but also one where questions were raised about the loyalty of those tasked with leading unionism into the future.

Christopher Stalford. Credit: Kevin Scott

Key dates in life and political career of the late DUP politician Christopher Stalford

January 1983: Born in the Annadale area of Belfast, going on to attend Ulidia Primary School and Nettlefield Primary School.

Ambitious: Christopher Stalford MLA with DUP colleagues at the opening of his offices in Sandy Row, south Belfast, in 2016. Credit: Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

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Suzanne Breen Opinion Blessed with insight and wit, talking with Christopher was never dull

“I wasn’t born in a pinstripe suit, you know!” Christopher Stalford retorted whenever I teased him about how ultra-square he looked.

Leadership: DUP’s Christopher Stalford after he was successfully elected in south Belfast in the 2017 Assembly election

Christopher Stalford’s death: A bright light has gone out in our party and in NI politics, says Sir Jeffrey

A bright light has gone out in Northern Ireland politics with the sudden death of DUP MLA Christopher Stalford, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said.

Former DUP leader Arlene Foster. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Anti-protocol protests will get bigger and remain ‘aggressive’, says former First Minister Arlene Foster

Former First Minister Arlene Foster believes anti-protocol protests will become larger and remain “quite aggressive” if the British and Irish Governments, and the European Union continues to ignore unionist and loyalist concerns.

Protest: An anti-protocol rally on the Shankill Road in Belfast last June. Credit: Kevin Scott / Belfast Telegraph

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Gavin Esler Opinion Botched Brexit has shattered the idea of a ‘United’ Kingdom

Drive up the Shankill Road in west Belfast and you come to a series of billboards about the Troubles. As you would expect, they tell stories from a loyalist perspective, featuring atrocities committed by republicans.

Sinn Fein taking Justice Minister post following next election ‘very difficult’ for unionists, claims Arlene Foster

The prospect of Sinn Fein taking the Justice Minister role following the next election would be “very difficult” for unionists, according to former First Minister and GB News presenter Arlene Foster.

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Attacks on the legal profession ‘incredibly dangerous’, warns QUB professor

Attacks on members of the legal profession have been condemned, with a leading law professor calling the latest slurs against a High Court judge part of a “wider agenda”.

Tough at the top: Jeffrey Donaldson after an anti-protocol rally at an Orange hall earlier this week

Sam McBride Opinion DUP is playing a very dangerous game that could end up devouring it

Last week there began an election campaign which the DUP and Sinn Fein hoped would be short, but will in fact be unusually long.

Former DUP leader Arlene Foster interviews the current DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson on GBNews.

BBC NI rejects Arlene Foster’s claim broadcaster is an ‘opponent’ of the DUP

The BBC has rejected suggestions from former DUP leader turned television presenter Arlene Foster that the broadcaster is an “opponent” of the party.

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Allison Morris Opinion DUP’s Donaldson is gambling with his future and the Union

In the last seven days there have been events that in a normal news cycle would have dominated the front pages for days. Such was the fast pace of developments, many became little more than a footnote in an extraordinary week.

Loggerheads: Sir Jeffrey Donaldson addresses reporters earlier this week. Credit: Kevin Scott / Belfast Telegraph

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Sam McBride Opinion Peculiar moves by DUP hint at party spat undermining sea border strategy

What has emanated from the DUP this week has been a mixture of carefully laid strategy and actions which for now remain inexplicable even to some DUP members.

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DUP veteran Paul Bell who quit over treatment of former leader Arlene Foster set to run for party in Tyrone

A DUP veteran who quit over the treatment of former leader Arlene Foster is set to run for the party in the Assembly election.

DUP’s Edwin Poots has faced a lot of political ups and downs during his lengthy career in public service. Credit: Brian Lawless

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Mark Bain Opinion Tectonic plates have shifted and left Poots thinking he should have been careful what he wished for

On May 14, 2021, Edwin Poots was elected as the new leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.

Difficult choices: Jim Wells visiting his wife Grace at her care home. Credit: Richard-Hodgett 2020

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exclusive Ousted Jim Wells fears he will have to sell home to pay for wife’s care

Former health minister Jim Wells has said he will likely have to sell his home to pay for his wife’s care after being deselected as a DUP Assembly candidate.

Paul Givan and Michelle O’Neill. Credit: Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

UK Government’s immigration bill ‘dehumanises vulnerable people’

The First and Deputy First Ministers have voiced criticism of the Home Office’s new immigration bill, saying it creates an “unhelpful two-tier system” which could give rise to the perception that asylum seekers “do not have the right to be here”.

Probe: Sue Gray with Finance Minister Conor Murphy

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Sam McBride Opinion Secrecy and power: What Sue Gray’s two NI sojourns reveal about her

Mystique surrounds Sue Gray as lies surround the man whose career now rests in her hands — if even she could now save him, that is.

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. Credit: Jonathan Porter / Press Eye

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Suzanne Breen Opinion No guarantee DUP’s fortunes will change for better in 2022

It has been annus horribilis for the DUP, and there is no guarantee that 2022 will bring any dramatic change of fortune.

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Ivan Little Opinion Big Little awards 2021: Bungling Boris Johnson wins Peppa Pig Prize for porkies and pandemic parties

It was a year that the world had been looking forward to. A year of hope, tempered with caution, after a 2020 that had seen death, devastation and despair accelerating around the globe due to a rampaging coronavirus pandemic.

Former DUP leader Arlene Foster tops our list of the year's newsmakers

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Allison Morris Opinion Why we haven’t seen last of comeback queen Arlene Foster

She was the first lady of unionism, so much so that in 2016 the DUP ran a presidential-style election based around the personality of Arlene Foster.

Arlene Foster talking to Joanne Dorrian on GB News on Friday

Lisa Dorrian’s sister tells Arlene Foster she wants a ‘Charlotte’s Law’

Killers need to know they will face longer jail time if they don’t give up their victim’s body, the sister of Lisa Dorrian has said.

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