Provisional figures released by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) show that ‘Total Income from Farming’ in Northern Ireland is down by 52.2% in real terms from £290 million in 2011 to £143...
Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kennedy has demanded action be taken to ensure that those responsible for fuel smuggling and laundering in his Newry & Armagh constituency are jailed. Speaking after a major diesel laundering plant was...
Ulster Unionist MLA and Policing Board Member Ross Hussey has condemned last night’s pipe bomb attack on Police in North Belfast. Mr Hussey said: “I utterly condemn last night’s incident in which a pipe bomb was...
As the First and deputy First Ministers attend a seminar in Brussels celebrating the success of PEACE III funding, Ulster Unionist Leader Mike Nesbitt has hit out at the SEUPB and Department of Finance and...
Ulster Unionist Education spokesperson, Danny Kinahan MLA has called on the Education Minister, John O’Dowd to get behind the Prime Minister’s plans for education during the centenary years of the First World War. Danny, who is...
Ulster Unionist Peer Lord Empey has welcomed confirmation from the Government that it has no plans to hold a border poll. Speaking following receipt of a written answer from Baroness Randerson in response to a...
Ulster Unionist Economy Spokesperson, Sandra Overend, has urged the government at Westminster to take action to alleviate the hardship on Northern Ireland consumers and businesses following an Office of Fair Trading (OFT) report which shows...
Ulster Unionist Leader, Mike Nesbitt MLA pays his own personal tribute to Malcolm Brodie. "He was an inspirational one-off, for all sports reporters of his day. We all have our own memories, especially of him as...
The Ulster Unionist Party’s South Belfast MLA Michael McGimpsey has accused the Departments of Education and Employment & Learning of failing the hundreds of newly qualified teachers who are unable to find jobs when they...
The Ulster Unionist Party’s Justice Spokesman Tom Elliott has criticised the hypocrisy of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams in his condemnation of the brutal and cowardly murder of Garda Adrian Donohoe and apology for the...