Jun 27, 2021

Top Stories

A round up of the most popular news stories this week.


	Sam McBride: The Irish Sea border, my kids’ swing, and why supermarket food prices in NI are covertly soaring

	Three weeks ago, and to the great delight of my children, we installed a swing in the garden.

First Minister’s father mounts defence of right to fly UK flag amid row

Councillor Alan Givan, the father of the First Minister, has mounted an impassioned defence of loyalists’ right to fly the national flag.

DUP MPs and Assembly members have formally endorsed Sir Jeffrey Donaldson as their new leader

Sir Jeffrey received 32 votes of the party’s 36-strong electoral college as it met at a Co Antrim hotel to rubber stamp the Lagan Valley MP’s ascent to the top job.

Ben Lowry: Neither Dublin nor IRA have been put under any pressure on legacy

Brandon Lewis said on Thursday in Dublin that dealing with the legacy of the Troubles was a “hugely complex and sensitive issue”.

Ben Lowry: A slight sense of sadness as the days again begin to shorten

Once again we have passed that melancholy point in the calendar when the days begin to shorten.

We have got to trust women’s own moral codes on abortion

This is the latest in a handful of letters on the subject this week:

Matt Hancock should quit or be sacked after Covid breach

This is the News Letter editorial of Saturday, June 26.

DUP to give first rubber stamp to Donaldson as its new leader today

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is today expected to be formally chosen as DUP leader with no hint that his internal opponents will attempt to prevent that outcome.

Burnside likens PM’s protocol stance to Chamberlain and Hitler

A former Ulster Unionist MP has likened Boris Johnson’s acceptance of the Irish Sea border to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler.



	View more news