Jayne McCormack
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Hard to believe it’s only been one week since… *that* DUP executive meeting, the DUP decision, new legislation in London, a Saturday assembly sitting, all culminating today in visits to Stormont from a PM and a Taoiseach. Oh, & a 1st executive meeting. Here’s how today unfolded
Northern Ireland's Executive has met for the first time in two years. The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, were at Stormont today to mark the occasion and meet with the new First Minister, Michelle O'Neill, and Deputy First Minister, Emma Little-Pengelly
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A brilliant morning at the 5k fun run in the city centre @marathonbcm - well done to everyone who took part and all those involved in organising a great morning!
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The Presbyterian Church in Ireland is now entering one of the most turbulent chapters in its 185-year history.
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The sudden and unprecedented resignation of the moderator has left the church grappling with the scale of its own safeguarding failures.
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The latest Red Lines has just dropped. Stormont 2.0 - can devolution survive without reform? @MarkCarruthers7 @timcairns @chrisadonnelly @duncan_morrow @S_Haughey
https://t.co/qAeimF20oX
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Does the NI Assembly need an upgrade to survive?
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Irish Sea agrifood border will be there for at least another couple of years, @LordsEUCom concludes.
Negotiations on SPS and ETS haven’t even begun yet, as the EU has not agreed negotiating mandates. SPS won’t be in place until 2027 at the earliest. The Gov’t agreed to make an ‘appropriate financial contribution’ to EU costs. We ask what they consider a fair cost to pay. 5/8
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Education Minister Paul Givan has received an invitation to make a second visit to Israel in the new year. https://t.co/ys0TxGFqnt
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The invitation has been received by the Department of Education "within the last couple of days".
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The Education Minster has survived a vote of no confidence by MLAs because it didn't have cross community backing. Paul Givan has come in for criticism from some over his recent trip to Israel, funded by the Israeli government. Our Political Correspondent Jayne McCormack reports.
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DUP leader @GRobinsonDUP insists his party's absence from the forthcoming Irish presidential inauguration is "not a snub". https://t.co/ZcMcTB6Zng
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Gavin Robinson was speaking after the party confirmed they would not send a representative to Catherine Connolly's inauguration on Tuesday.
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Education minister faces no confidence vote over Israel visit
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The move was set to fail as it needed cross-community support and unionist parties had already ruled out supporting it.
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BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit - BBC News
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The culture secretary tells MPs the BBC "has faced criticism from all sides", as Donald Trump threatens to sue for $1bn over a documentary edit.
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What shape are Stormont's finances in ahead of the Autumn Budget? ✍@BBCJayneMcC
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Ministers agreed a £100m overspend to fund a health pay deal, so how will it affect their budgets?
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NI's deputy first minister will not attend the inauguration of the new Irish president, Catherine Connolly, next week due to Remembrance Day commitments.
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Northern Ireland's deputy first minister says she is unable to attend Catherine Connolly's inauguration due to Remembrance Day commitments.
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Statement from dept of finance on today’s pay parity agreement. I understand at an executive meeting last month Finance Min John O’Dowd spelled out to other ministers the consequences of deliberate overspends & the need to live within budgets
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Police investigate 'sectarian hate crime' at headquarters of Alliance Party in Northern Ireland https://t.co/yvXEpoikyA
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It was reported on Wednesday that graffiti had been sprayed onto external windows, door shutters and a fence.
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To be clear I understand the executive has agreed that the Dept of health can overspend its budget by £100m this year to meet the pay-related pressures
Health workers in NI to get their pay award according to the executive - deputy FM @little_pengelly says the executive found “the entire amount” of £200m that had been needed
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Health workers in NI to get their pay award according to the executive - deputy FM @little_pengelly says the executive found “the entire amount” of £200m that had been needed
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Stormont "may add to the pressures" on its finances by choosing not to "raise more funds for itself", the Northern Ireland secretary has said. Hilary Benn speaking in Lisburn 👇
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Stormont's finance minister says any increase in taxes in the government's budget this month should "fall on those with the broadest shoulders"
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UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out rises, saying she will make the "necessary choices".
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Don’t say the @niassembly is dull. @AndrewMuirNI has just called the chamber a “toxic thunderdome”. So there
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PSNI to ballot for strike action over data breach
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The trade union NIPSA has said it plans to ballot around 1,600 police workers for strike action.
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Irish language signage at Belfast's Grand Central Station "in no way detracts or diminishes" from English, according to a new Stormont equality screening review. https://t.co/GczJJgKrnP
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It is the second "equality screening" assessment of the bilingual signage plans by Stormont's infrastructure minister.
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