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QUESTION marks over the very existence of Stormont are not new.

THE DUP's continued boycott of the power-sharing institutions was last night being blamed for expected cuts to Stormont departments after the secretary of state set out a budget for the current financial year. Chris Heaton-Harris warned that a lack of financial...

FORMER first minister Dame Arlene Foster today took her place in the House of Lords.

AS bills continue to rise, so too does anger about the stasis at Stormont.

The Northern Ireland Secretary said he has acted to protect the education and health budgets ‘as much as I can’.

Government departments in the north have been operating without proper budgets for months.

THE vacuum caused by the absence of a Stormont Executive has nudged discussion of joint authority to the fore, causing jitters among unionists.

STORMONT isn’t working.

Northern Ireland has already had three different secretaries of state this year thanks to the chaos that has engulfed the Conservative Party. But how many of the other 21 since 1972 can you identify?

The Sinn Fein vice president was speaking during a visit to Derry.