Vernon Coaker MP, Labour’s Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, responding to media reports that the Northern Ireland Secretary has written to the Northern Ireland political parties about talks to deal with the past, said:

Fair Deal (Slugger O'Toole): The Northern Ireland Executive met last month for the first time since June. Two letters signified an agreement between the DUP and Sinn Fein on policing and justice (Letter 1 and letter 2 (pdf files)). Many are questioning what the 150+ day hiatus was about? The Northern Ireland peace process is an instrumental one, consistently agreeing a limited number of issues...

The basis of a deal to save Northern Ireland's power-sharing government was now in place, Sinn Fein claimed last night after almost two weeks of talks ended.

The British and Irish premiers will travel to Northern Ireland today to formally announce details of the deal to save the region's power-sharing government.

On Northern Ireland, as we were saying this morning, Shaun Woodward was emphasising that there appeared to be a small number of criminals behind these murderous acts. The PMS said that Shaun Woodward had used the word criminals regardless of how these people chose to describe themselves. It had been very clear from the Prime Minister s and Northern Ireland Secretary s visit to Northern Ireland yes...

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Shaun Woodward MP, Labour's Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, speaking to Labour Party Conference today, said: Conference. It has been an enormous privilege to serve as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The opportunity to serve and the privilege to work with the people of Northern Ireland will always be with me. This has been another historic year for Northern Ireland. The third and f...

The actions of a small number of violent criminals must not be allowed to provoke anyone to undo the progress that has been made in Northern Ireland says Owen Paterson the Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

The British and Irish premiers will travel to Northern Ireland today to formally announce details of the deal to save the region's power-sharing government.

Following the tragic deaths in Northern Ireland, talk of a march for peace has already met with the cynical response that marching has never solved anything in Ulster (Ireland unites against the killers, 11 March). This is, I believe, less of an allusion to those annual demonstrations of the Orange Order than to the protests led by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, whose peaceful camp...