Jessica Bamford will represent the Alliance Party on Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, after she was co-opted to replace Peter Kennedy, who stepped down due to ill health.
Speaking at the annual Northern Ireland Bureau breakfast in Washington, D.C., Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has highlighted Northern Ireland as a “place of transformation, ambition and opportunity.”
Several politicians from Northern Ireland, including Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, have met US President Donald Trump as part of celebrations for St Patrick’s Day. The President said he hadn’t heard about the boycott of the event by some parties.
Martin Hearty will represent
Sinn Féin on Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, after he was co-opted to replace Aoife Finnegan in the Slieve Gullion District Electoral Area (DEA).
The new deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is Michelle McIlveen MLA, party chairman Lord Morrow has confirmed. Party leader Gavin Robinson has also been re-elected.
In the first of a new series of UK-Ireland summits, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Taoiseach Micheal Martin have spoken about their desire to further develop the relationship between the islands. They have agreed a range of commitments that they will take forward to 2030.
The announcement of the Programme for Government has been delayed after an Executive meeting scheduled for Wednesday morning was postponed, after Alliance Minister Andrew Muir said he hadn’t seen the updated document after ministers were asked for feedback.
Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister has confirmed she will travel to Washington for St Patrick’s Day. Emma Little-Pengelly will be there without First Minister Michelle O’Neill after Sinn Fein announced they would not be attending.
Sinn Féin has announced that they will not be attending St Patrick’s Day celebrations at the White House, in what they call a “principled stance in response to the call for the mass expulsion of the Palestinian people from Gaza”. The DUP say the decision is “short-sighted and counterproductive”.
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