Ulster Unionist Party

Doug Beattie, like other UUP leaders, struggled to figure out what the party stood for

Current deputy leader Robbie Butler the most likely to step into the Ulster Unionist Party breach but whoever the next leader is they will face the same internal party tensions

Westminster elections leave Northern Ireland parties with choices and questions

Turnout for the UK general election was down in each of Northern Ireland’s constituencies. Forecasting is a hazardous business, but where does this leave political parties?

Unionism needs to build a pro-union majority, not fall back into finger-pointing and name-calling

Movement needs to focus on Northern Ireland that works and stops looking like outlier in UK

NI election: Sinn Féin now biggest party in Westminster, Stormont and council after DUP losses

Alliance makes history with first non-DUP MP in Lagan Valley, while TUV unseats Ian Paisley

How did Northern Ireland vote? A full breakdown of how each constituency voted in the UK election

Full results for the 18 Northern Ireland constituencies

Northern Ireland voters go to the polls in general election with several constituencies hotly contested

Sinn Féin is seeking to cement its position as the largest party after securing most seats in recent Assembly and local council polls

DUP has most reason to be anxious as North’s parties prepare for Westminster vote

As Sinn Féin learned earlier this month in the South, the difference between success and failure is often about expectations

The election countdown may be on, but it feels as if Northern Ireland is still getting used to it

With the DUP under pressure, Sinn Féin could overtake it to have the greatest number of seats at council, Assembly and Westminster level

Can Sinn Féin pull off its left-right, North-South balancing act?

The party may move economically left and socially right in the Republic - but it needs to stay the course in Northern Ireland

Agreement to run non-party unionist candidate for Fermanagh and South Tyrone seat proposed

Current Sinn Féin MP Michelle Gildernew rules herself out of defending seat as she is running in European elections

Northern Irish political parties gear up for July election with Sinn Féin seeking to overtake DUP

The DUP has eight MPs, while ‘abstentionist’ Sinn Féin has seven

Unionist parties are not about to merge – it’s hard enough holding them together individually

A choice of parties may be essential for unionism’s long-term health; the implosion of the Scottish National Party is a warning about putting all your eggs in one basket

Jeffrey Donaldson, at the heart of Northern Irish politics for nearly 40 years

From Enoch Powell to post-Brexit negotiations, former DUP leader has been an influential figure for decades

Who could take ministerial roles in a new Stormont Assembly?

Devolved government is set to return to Northern Ireland for the first time in two years on Saturday. These representatives could take the most prominent roles in the new Assembly

Stormont returns: who are the likely ministers in the new Northern Ireland Executive?

First step is the election of a speaker – the prerequisite for all other Northern Ireland Assembly business

Ireland and Britain must work on ‘Plan B’ if DUP does not end Stormont boycott - Michelle O’Neill

A further attempt to recall Northern Ireland’s powersharing government failed on Wednesday, when the DUP did not support the nomination of a Speaker in the Northern Ireland Assembly

Jeffrey Donaldson destroyed David Trimble. Is he about to do the same to himself?

Donaldson will have to tread carefully to avoid splitting the DUP the way he split the UUP and prevent the civil war that transformed the UUP into a basket case

Senior Sinn Féin and unionist politicians set up ‘secret group’ to discuss deadlock in peace process

State papers: UUP leader David Trimble was seemingly unaware of meetings being held in 2001 with members of his own party

Peace process has taught politicians how to grow tribal vote through stubbornness

Newly released State papers shed light on the years immediately after the Belfast Agreement, so much of which is still in dispute or open to interpretation

Stormont talks: ‘This is starting to feel a bit like a bad break-up, where one person has listed themselves on Facebook as single and the other one is still claiming it’s complicated’

The Northern Secretary said the political talks with the DUP were over - but that is not what the DUP heard

Bronze bust of David Trimble unveiled at Leinster House

Former UUP leader jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize with SDLP’s John Hume in 1998

Is London’s offer enough to get the DUP back in to Stormont?

With new cash on the table for Northern Ireland, will this be seen as a final offer or an opening bid?

Bust of late UUP leader David Trimble to be unveiled in Leinster House in December

Bust to be placed beside one of late John Hume and will be unveiled to coincide with 25th anniversary of awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to both men

Euro 2028: DUP opposes rebuilding Casement Park with a ‘blank cheque’ of public money

Party plans to argue against allocation of funds for GAA’s plans to redevelop Belfast stadium, dormant since 2013, into 34,000 capacity grounds

Doug Beattie: ‘I suddenly found it really difficult to talk to my 13-year-old daughter or my 13-year-old son’

Parenting in My Shoes: The leader of the Ulster Unionist Party says he felt as his children got older that he was replicating what he saw as his own father’s failings, and he ‘really had to work’ at changing that

North’s political leaders condemn poster threats aimed at prison officers and PSNI

Leaders of several parties respond to online video show recruitment poster being removed by republican group members

Micheál Martin’s Shared Island: concrete cross-Border co-operation from an unlikely republican

€1bn ‘slush fund’ has overcome initial suspicions from unionism – but republicans think it falls short when it comes to aspirations for a united Ireland

Irish State’s investment in NI nurses should ‘embarrass’ Northern Secretary, DUP says

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly signed off €10m investment in response to Stormont budget cuts

DUP efforts to secure Government legal assurances reaching ‘important stage’

Jeffrey Donaldson has said DUP will not return to powersharing until UK government legislates to address concerns around sovereignty and trade

‘For God and Ulster’: Adrenaline coursed through my veins. A red mist descended over those around me

Aaron Edwards: Although my recollections of the angry confrontation during the marching season in 2001 emphasise conflict, behind the scenes it was a different matter

Newton Emerson: The threat of joint authority in the North is a scare story unionism has heard before

A Sinn Féin government in Dublin might settle for an enhanced consultative role while cranking up the optics

‘We held off a machine. Sinn Féin is a machine’: Smaller parties regroup after NI elections

Greens suffer biggest political casualty with party leader Mal O’Hara losing seat

Sinn Féin overtakes DUP as North’s largest local government party after ‘momentous’ election result

Party vice-president and first minister designate Michelle O’Neill repeats call for Stormont Assembly and Executive to be restored in wake of victory

Northern Ireland elections: Sinn Féin overtake DUP in local government in ‘momentous’ result

Former UUP leader calls for ‘fundamental realignment of unionism’ as voter turnout reaches 54.71%

Sinn Féin poised to become largest party of local government in Northern Ireland

It may become the first nationalist party to hold most seats at council level

Northern Ireland council elections: Sinn Féin bidding to overtake DUP

Counting is to begin on Friday morning and is expected to continue over two days

Five things to watch in Thursday’s Northern Ireland council elections

DUP watching if Stormont stance pays off; Sinn Féin looking to become largest party; Alliance surge may be at expense of UUP and SDLP

Northern Ireland local elections: Unionists could learn from the Sinn Féin playbook

Twenty-five years after the Belfast Agreement, the dreary constitutional question still eclipses every other issue

Newton Emerson: Bertie Ahern’s unsubtle advice to unionists is to start talking

Somehow the UUP can’t seem to capitalise on the DUP’s multi-year Brexit fiasco and epic leadership contest meltdown

Northern Ireland: DUP vote up but remains behind Sinn Féin, opinion poll suggests

Sinn Féin support is at 29%, the DUP at 25%, Alliance at 13%, UUP at 11% and SDLP at 7%

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