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The Latest Breaking News from Stormont

Ex-Northern Ireland secretary urges sanctions for parties refusing to power share

Lord Hain says any party which refuses to form a power sharing executive should have its funding withheld

Belfast Live

Sanction parties refusing to powershare, urges ex-Northern Ireland secretary

Lord Hain helped negotiate the arrangement in 2007.

The Independent UK

Compromise on protocol needed to restore government to Northern Ireland – Major

The former PM said he was ‘baffled’ how the post-Brexit treaty was agreed in its current form.

The Independent UK

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Northern Ireland secretary to hold further roundtable talks with Stormont parties

The meeting is expected to discuss the power-sharing stalemate and Stormont's budget in the absence of devolved government

Belfast Live

Westminster should consider making more NI decisions in Stormont's absence, study says

Northern Ireland is being governed on a "limited and piecemeal basis" since the collapse of power-sharing, a think tank warned

Belfast Live

Progress being made on Brexit NI Protocol deal but difficulties remain, says Maros Sefcovic

It follows reports of a "breakthrough" in negotiations in which the EU will accept a UK proposal for red and green lanes

Belfast Live

DUP MP Ian Paisley's 'super-majority' bill to be debated on St Patrick's Day

The North Antrim MP has denied his proposed legislation would be "changing the goalposts" for any border poll on a united Ireland

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Former MLA does not rule out a return to frontline politics in the future

The DUP deputy leader stepped down as a full time MLA last year to care for her elderly parents,

The Independent UK

Brendan Hughes: Nothing to stop NI secretary stepping in on Daithi's Law

On the issue of organ donation, politicians here have sat on their hands for far too long

Belfast Live

All-Island Strategic Rail Review held up by dormant Stormont

"It can't be signed off without an Executive minister"

Belfast Live

14 student accommodation blocks in Northern Ireland paying no rates

It emerges following calls to remove the exemption which is costing the public purse almost £2million a year in lost revenue

Birmingham Post

14 student accommodation blocks in Northern Ireland paying no rates

It emerges following calls to remove the exemption which is costing the public purse almost £2million a year in lost revenue

Belfast Live

Campaign for minimum 5 year jail term for NI criminals who harm or kill service dogs

'There is little point in having our service animals protected under the law without having sentencing to match the crimes committed against them'

Belfast Live

Northern Ireland organ donation law: Daithi MacGabhann family may take legal action

"We were at the funeral of a young boy last week who died of the same condition as Daithi, time is not on our side, we don’t have the time"

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Former SDLP MLA Pat Catney to stand in NI council elections

"My reasons are just to make the place where we live a better place. Maybe that sounds old fashioned"

The Independent UK

Daithi’s family ‘disappointed and angry’ after meeting over organ law delay

Mairtin MacGabhann said he would consider legal action over delays to the implementation of organ donation laws in Northern Ireland.

The Independent UK

NI Secretary pledges to ‘explore possible avenues’ to enact organ donations laws

Chris Heaton-Harris was meeting with six-year-old Daithi MacGabhann, who is on the transplant waiting list, and his parents on Wednesday.

Belfast Live

DUP urges Sinn Fein to explain £4m rates exemption for student apartment blocks

It follows concerns that an unresolved tax "loophole" means some student accommodation blocks do not pay rates

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Stormont catering contract awarded to firm supplying 'substandard' food to US prisons

The company has come under fire over its catering for refugees and asylum seekers in the Irish Republic and US prisoners

Belfast Live

New Northern Ireland planning applications portal "unacceptably poor" says architecture group

"Many functions worked better on the old system"

Belfast Live

Brendan Hughes: Whistleblowing vet case shows lessons not learned from RHI

Three years since the RHI inquiry report, an investigation into another Stormont controversy has shown strikingly similar failures

Wales Online

M&S chair says UK Government’s ‘baffling’ post-Brexit plans will wreck trade

Archie Norman, who is also an ex-Conservative MP, has urged the Government to convince the EU not to consider separate labelling for goods sold in Northern Ireland

The Independent UK

UK not placing any deadlines on EU talks to resolve NI Protocol – Heaton-Harris

The Northern Ireland Secretary is currently on an investment-focused visit to the United States.

The Independent UK

Protocol deal ‘bound to fail’ if it does not address unionist concerns

DUP MP Gavin Robinson also dismissed the suggestion that powersharing rules could be changed to override his party’s veto on forming an executive.

Belfast Live

Sinn Fein MPs don't need to declare party wages on register, says parliamentary standards watchdog

TUV leader Jim Allister has written to the standards commissioner questioning the "obvious loophole" in the rules

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