All posts tagged "Sinn Féin"

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  Elected representatives return to Northern Ireland Assembly

  Civil servants in Northern Ireland are to once again work under the direction of elected leaders, three years after the province’s government was dissolved. The stalemate between the region’s two

  • Posted January 13, 2020
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  Northern Ireland’s biggest party broke the law in appointing special advisers, inquiry hears

  Northern Ireland’s leading loyalist party routinely broke the law in how it appointed ministerial special advisors, a public inquiry has heard. The inquiry was set up last year to examine

  • Posted October 1, 2018
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  UK signals greater powers for Northern Ireland civil servants

  The UK government intends to give civil servants in Northern Ireland greater powers to make decisions in the absence of local elected leaders, the Westminster administration’s minister for the province

  • Posted September 12, 2018
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  Court appeal to decide Northern Ireland civil servants’ powers as political shut-down continues

  A Northern Ireland government department is to appeal against a court ruling that senior civil servants have exceeded their remit, in a bid to win clarity over officials’ powers and

  • Posted May 22, 2018
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  UK issues ‘final deadline’ for Stormont deal

  Northern Ireland secretary James Brokenshire has given Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party a final warning after months of wrangling, insisting that they must agree a new power-sharing deal

  • Posted October 25, 2017
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  Former Northern Ireland civil service head to join peace charity board

  The former Northern Ireland civil service permanent secretary, Sir Malcolm McKibbin, is to join the board of Co-operation Ireland: a charity that works to advance peace and reconciliation between Northern

  • Posted August 23, 2017
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