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1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · By John Manley, Politics Correspondent

   Ulster Unionists will support TUV motion to exclude Sinn Féin ministers (opens the original)

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   Ulster Unionist leader Jon Burrows has signalled that his party will support the exclusion of Sinn Féin ministers from office. First Minister Michelle O’Neill and three of her Executive colleagues were among hundreds of residents and protesters who prevented Orangemen parading down Portadown’s Garvaghy Road on Sunday. Ms O’Neill and her party’s ministers have faced criticism from unionists over their involvement in the protest, which came after the Parades Commission approved the conten

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2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · By John Manley, Politics Correspondent

   Michelle O’Neill to answer Stormont questions on Garvaghy Road protest on Monday (opens the original)

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   Michelle O’Neill has signalled that she will answer questions about the weekend events on the Garvaghy Road in the Assembly next Monday. Speaker Edwin Poots confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that the first minister would attend the next Assembly sitting, adding that he would have used legislation to compel her to attend had she not agreed. The Sinn Féin deputy leader was present on the Garvaghy Road on Saturday alongside other senior party figures, including other Stormont ministers, when an Ora

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3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · John Manley, Politics Correspondent

   Stormont gets on with bickering as usual but the institutions look like surviving for the moment (opens the original)

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   In the aftermath of a tense weekend, there was an expectation on Monday morning that the Stormont institutions might not last the day. “There can be no business as usual,” DUP leader Gavin Robinson told reporters in Stormont’s Great Hall. Events in Portadown, in particular Michelle O’Neill and other Sinn Féin ministers’ involvement in the protests on the Garvaghy Road, have driven a fresh wedge between the Executive’s senior partners. In the weeks since the resurrected spectre of Dr

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4. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · John Manley, Politics Correspondent

   John Manley: Unionist agitators and a bungling Parades Commission have turned back the clock (opens the original)

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   Unionist agitators determined to cause division and instability have succeeded in turning back the clock. Most assumed the contentious Drumcree-Garvaghy Road issue had been long settled but it has been revived by anti-agreement and anti-power-sharing elements whose indulgence by the DUP leadership speaks volumes about the latter’s current vulnerability. While the potential for events to run out of control isn’t as severe as it was three decades ago, there’s no room for complacency. The hal

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5. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · By John Manley

   Carlow’s annual autumn walking festival showcases the best of the county’s diverse landscape (opens the original)

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   I first stepped onto the soil of the so-called Dolmen County from a helicopter at the height of the Celtic Tiger in July 2005. Myself and a number of other business journalists had been flown to the Mount Wolseley Hotel in Tullow. The plush venue, surrounded by a Christy O’Connor Jnr-designed golf course, had been sold by the Morrisey family to the Hilton Group. We listened to a few speeches and received a lavish lunch before being flown back to our base near Dublin airport. It was a memorable

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