DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has tested positive for Covid-19 + Nigel Dodds recalls horrific night at RVH on 25th anniversary of IRA attack

Dec 21, 2021

Michael Cousins

Acting Managing Editor

Welcome to your news update from the team at the News Letter.

In the news today:

* DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has tested positive for Covid-19.

* ‘Clapping ministers in shackles and sending them to prison may not be in the public interest’ says High Court judge in stinging findings against DUP

* Prison officer’s killer fails in bid to overturn murder conviction.

* An Orange lodge at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has been revived more than half a century after going into abeyance in 1966.

* Lord Empey: The DUP must accept their role in this mess and drop the mad plan to collapse Stormont.

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