Changing face of unionist politics: new first minister, Paul Givan with the now former DUP leader, Edwin Poots.
REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
With the resignation of shortlived DUP leader Edwin Poots, unionism in Northern Ireland is in turmoil.
Brexit means the UK can’t currently export bangers to, well, itself.
Darren Staples/EPA-EFE
Tensions over a possible ‘sausage war’ between the UK and EU are brewing. How will leaders solve this Brexit-imposed trade dispute?
Rosie was told that her baby would not survive and to seek an abortion in another part of the UK.
BBC/Studio Lambert/Steffan Hill
Despite a new legal framework for abortion services, many women still travel to other parts of the UK to have an abortion.
Edwin Poots is one of the two candidates standing to be leader of the DUP.
Alamy
A tiny group of people will select the man to lead Arlene Foster’s party following her resignation. But, bizarrely, it might be that neither becomes first minister.
Nicola Sturgeon thinks she’s found the exit.
EPA/Robert Perry
Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland out, Boris Johnson hopes to hold it all together and Mark Drakeford believes in the best of both worlds.
The Maze prison in Northern Ireland saw protest taken to the extreme in the 1970s and 1980s.
Alamy
Why would a group of people decide to spend months and years living semi-naked in squalid conditions?
Alamy/Xinhua
An incoherent Brexit policy has ended the DUP leader’s career – but her party can’t pretend they didn’t giver her full support.
Ted Hastings Northern Irish past has come back to haunt him several times in Line of Duty.
BBC/World Productions/Steffan Hill
The spectre of the Troubles provides fertile drama for cop shows.
A fire at the site of a peace gate in Belfast during the unrest.
Alamy/PA/Liam McBurney
Loyalist groups stand accused of encouraging young people to riot. Research suggests paramilitary groups do continue to wield significant power in certain areas of Northern Ireland.
Alamy/PA/Liam McBurney
Brexit is only the latest episode of cynicism and scaremongering at the top of unionism
Northern Irish protesters on April 7, 2021, burn the Peace Gate in Belfast, built in the 1990s to separate the city’s warring Protestant and Catholic communities.
Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
Brexit has reopened an old battle over Northern Irish identity, leading to clashes in the street. Scores have been injured in the troubled UK territory’s worst outbreak of violence in decades.
A campaigner calls for change back in 2018.
George Sweeney/Alamy
A year since the law was changed, women were still not getting access to abortion services.
PA/Liam McBurney
The different responses to group gatherings among unionist and republican communities has caused upset.
PA/David Young
An ill-advised threat from Brussels has heightened tensions over border checks.
Empty shelves in Sainsburys in Belfast because UK suppliers can’t clear customs.
David Young/PA
Queues at borders, suspended deliveries, empty shelves: the EU-UK Trade Cooperatiion Agreement is not quite what it seemed in the brochure.
What does a no-deal Brexit mean for the NI border?
Aidan Crawley / EPA
The future need not be gloomy. It is possible for Northern Ireland to emerge better off at the end of this process.
Biden has stronger views on Brexit than Donald Trump.
EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo
The question of the Irish border after Brexit is a more pressing matter for the next president than it has been for his predecessor.
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock
Students must not be assessed on course material that they haven’t had the opportunity to learn.
PA.
Northern Ireland is the first UK country to impose a time-limited set of restrictions to try and get on top of the coronavirus.
EPA/Shawn Thew
The US is a key player in the Good Friday Agreement – but there’s an election to think about too.