The Belfast Agreement is the best agreement we’ve got

For all its compromises and ambiguities, it is the only practicable means to hand of giving the province something approaching normalcy.

Profile: Arlene Foster, standing firm for Britain in Belfast

The DUP leader has not yet shown she knows how to make the strange machinery set up in Stormont work.

Garvan Walshe: McGuinness – a planner and executor, we should remember today, of attacks on our democracy

Every such criminal claims to have been “driven” to violence. Their excuses must not be indulged.

Richard Ritchie: Power-sharing government at Stormont is always bound to break down

Direct rule from Westminster is the proper unionist option.

WATCH: Ian Paisley – face to face with Mallie

An interview with Iain Paisley that traces his story from paramilitary outsider to First Minister.

Henry Hill: Ian Paisley claims to have been ‘forced out’ as First Minister by the DUP

Also: Police find ‘no evidence of criminality’ in Unite’s Falkirk emails; Ian S Smart sees Tory chance in SNP weakness; and Wales could lose £7m to English universities.

The full text of Ian Paisley’s last speech in the House of Commons

The Rev'd Ian Paisley retires at the General Election. "We will not forget, of course, the price that was paid… Read more »