03/10/2016

The First Minister Arlene Foster has hit out at her unionist political rivals - branding the UUP's Mike Nesbitt as a leader who 'doesn't understand his own voters' - and saying that the TUV's Jim Allister is a 'one man band, heading towards retirement'.

The DUP leader was Speaking to the North Antrim Young Democrats in Kells on Saturday and announced that her party was about to launch a recruitment drive offering "boundless opportunities" to new members. "Successful parties look for converts - failed parties look for heretics," she declared.

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Reaction after dissident protesters verbally abuse priest

Dissident protestors lashed out at the end of the Twaddell parade stand-off at the weekend - verbally abusing a priest and threatening a newspaper reporter.

Around 40 members of GARC - the Greater Ardoyne Residents's Collective - led by dissident republican Dee Fennell, gathered to protest as the Ligoniel Orange lodges completed their return leg of the controversial parade.

Row over council’s paper boycott call

Derry City and Strabane District Council has passed a motion calling on local newsagents to stop selling The Sun.

The motion was put forward to show solidarity with the families of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster.

A spokesperson for The Sun has hit out calling it 'extreme censorship'