The North’s two main parties go into the UK general election on the back of starkly contrasting fortunes. For Sinn Fein the poll represents the chance to solidify its recently assumed status as the largest party in the region, after displacing the DUP in top spot in both Assembly and local government elections over the […]
(Bloomberg) — Support for the main Irish opposition party Sinn Fein is declining, according to an Irish Times poll, a change for the party that has been on course to oust the incumbent government. Most Read from Bloomberg Voting preference for the left-wing Irish nationalist party fell by five points in Thursday’s poll to 23%, […]
(Bloomberg) — Northern Ireland will have a working government and assembly for the first time in two years on Saturday, with an Irish nationalist from the Sinn Fein party set to become First Minister, a milestone moment in the region’s turbulent history. Most Read from Bloomberg Michelle O’Neill, whose party campaigns to reunite Northern Ireland […]
LONDON (AP) — Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams faces a lawsuit by three people who were wounded in bombings attributed to the Irish Republican Army that date back more than 50 years, a judge said Friday. Adams can be sued as an individual but not as a representative of the IRA, Justice Michael Soole […]