political crisis
Stormont crisis: ‘Restoring the Executive may not solve all problems, but its absence makes things worse’
Approaching the end of 2022 after seven months without a fully functioning executive, and with a recession on the way, what are the biggest issues facing the north’s business community?
Mandatory coalition: Are we ready for reform?
THE system of mandatory coalition underpinning power-sharing in the north had been the focus of gathering debate before the latest Stormont collapse.
Who are the senior civil servants left in charge of Stormont?
FOLLOWING the collapse of Stormont in February, triggered by the resignation of DUP first minister Paul Givan, most ministers continued in a caretaker capacity through to October, when authority was passed to their respective departments' permanent secretaries.
Former Irish News journalist on the political drama in Malta that reads straight out of a crime thriller
IT reads like a chapter straight out of a crime thriller.
Doubt over legislative implementation of Gillen proposals in absence of assembly
Some of the key recommendations of the widely welcomed report by retired judge Sir John Gillen into how serious sex offences are dealt with in Northern Ireland could be put in cold storage due to the failure to re-establish an assembly.
Analysis: Failed at every juncture, time is running out for Church abuse victim
OF the thousands of victims of Northern Ireland's troubles few have been more badly let down than the children of murdered mother of ten Jean McConville.
Terminally ill son of Jean McConville sends powerful message to warring politicians
BILLY McConville was just six-year-old when in December 1972 his mother was abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA.
Allison Morris: Politicians should choose their language carefully
THERE are some big ticket issues in the north's constantly revolving, political crisis hamster wheel that seem impossible to resolve.
Allison Morris: Truth commission risks re-traumatising victims
As a new round of talks start, this time with more structure than the haphazard, doomed to fail three weeks of shambolic sitting around that preceded it, there is little to convince me the outcome will be any different.
Survivors of institutional abuse in 'dangerous despair'
A CAMPAIGNER for victims of State and Church child abuse has said many are in "dangerously, deep despair" over the political crisis which is delaying the implementation of recommendations made in the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) report, published earlier this year.