Kate Hoey
Scrap Stormont, increase MPs and give councils more power, says Baroness Hoey
The Stormont institutions should be abolished and replaced by more MPs and strengthened local government to take decisions for the north, Parliament has heard.
Kate Hoey criticised after comparing MLAs accepting Windsor Framework to 'Nazi collaborators'
Former Labour MP Kate Hoey has been criticised after likening politicians prepared to return to Stormont under the Windsor Framework to Nazi collaborators under the Vichy regime in wartime France.
BBC NI launches probe after Twitter account likes posts critical of Gary Lineker
The BBC in Belfast have launched an internal investigation after the broadcaster's regional sports account liked tweets that appeared to criticise Gary Lineker.
Supreme Court's protocol ruling due on Wednesday
THE JUDGEMENT in the case against the Northern Ireland Protocol brought by a coalition of Brexiters is due to be made public on Wednesday.
Former Labour MP criticised over claims EU chief likened IRA to Ukraine freedom fighters
A FORMER Labour MP from Northern Ireland has been criticised for “preposterous and offensive” claims that the President of the EU Commission likened freedom fighters in Ukraine with the IRA and the UK with Russia.
Alliance rejects Kate Hoey claims it is trying to 'censor unionist and loyalist voices'
THE Alliance Party has hit back at claims from former Labour minister Kate Hoey that it is attempting to "censor" unionist and loyalist voices in the media.
Newton Emerson: Double-jobbing disaster should make Jeffrey think twice about collapsing Stormont
The failed attempt to bring back double-jobbing is a disaster for Jeffrey Donaldson, as he is now besmirched with blame for what looks like a dodgy deal without getting any of its benefits.
Chris Donnelly: Complacency has blunted northern Sinn Féin's sharpness
Northern Ireland continued through the first year of its post-centenary existence this month with the largest unionist party repeating and then pressing pause (not eject) on the threat it had already made ad nauseum over recent times to bring the political institutions crashing down.
Mary Kelly: When will Johnson's lies catch up with him?
IT is hard to write Boris Johnson's political obituary because he always seems to bounce back from every scandal that would have floored any of his predecessors.
John Manley: Unionism creates scapegoats rather than face up to inequality
THERE was a generous dose of Trumpian irony in Kate Hoey’s recent claims about the pervasiveness of an “elite nationalist network”.