DUP's Little-Pengelly says Trump's comment about an Irish 'merger' was 'just a bit of banter' – The Journal

DUP’s Little-Pengelly says Trump’s comment about an Irish ‘merger’ was ‘just a bit of banter’  The Journal Trump’s merger comments were ‘clearly a joke’, Little-Pengelly says  BBC Taoiseach defends UK’s Keir Starmer as an ‘earnest, sound person’ to Trump in Oval Office meeting  The Irish Independent ‘I love mergers’: Donald Trump appears to make suggestion about Irish unity … Read more

Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly: First and deputy First Minister to appear before scrutiny committee

Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly (Liam McBurney/PA) Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly’s appearance before the Executive Office scrutiny committee descended into heated exchanges and name-calling on Wednesday afternoon. At one stage the First Minister hit out at the TUV’s Timothy Gaston’s “nonsense” that led to him being suspended … Read more

Catherine Connolly welcomed at start of first official visit to North – The Irish Times

President Catherine Connolly began three days of engagements in Northern Ireland with a visit to Stormont Castle in Belfast on Wednesday morning. The engagements this week are Connolly’s first official visit to the North during her presidency. On arriving at Stormont Castle, she was welcomed by First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma … Read more

US visit gives North’s Deputy First Minister a chance to tell a new story – The Irish Times

One of the statistics that might have been useful to Donald Trump as he lathered the Irish in buttery praise during Wednesday’s luncheon on Capitol Hill was the number of former US presidents with Irish lineage. Or, more precisely, with a direct line back to Ulster Scots. “We do know there is that direct line … Read more

DUP minister salutes North’s links to US independence from Britain in Washington trip

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DUP deputy First Minister will travel to US for St Patrick’s Day – TheJournal.ie

DUP deputy First Minister will travel to US for St Patrick’s Day  TheJournal.ie Siobhán Fenton: Mary Lou McDonald’s White House boycott is a sign of a more aggressive Sinn Féin approach  The Irish Times St Patrick’s Day: Emma Little-Pengelly confirms she will go to Washington DC  BBC.com O’Neill ‘could not live’ with White House visit  RTÉ News Limerick TD … Read more