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14 student accommodation blocks in Northern Ireland paying no rates

It emerges following calls to remove the exemption which is costing the public purse almost £2million a year in lost revenue

Belfast Live

Campaign for minimum 5 year jail term for NI criminals who harm or kill service dogs

'There is little point in having our service animals protected under the law without having sentencing to match the crimes committed against them'

Belfast Live

Northern Ireland organ donation law: Daithi MacGabhann family may take legal action

"We were at the funeral of a young boy last week who died of the same condition as Daithi, time is not on our side, we don’t have the time"

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Former SDLP MLA Pat Catney to stand in NI council elections

"My reasons are just to make the place where we live a better place. Maybe that sounds old fashioned"

Belfast Live

Daithi’s family ‘disappointed and angry’ after meeting over organ law delay

Mairtin MacGabhann said he would consider legal action over delays to the implementation of organ donation laws in Northern Ireland.

The Independent UK

NI Secretary pledges to ‘explore possible avenues’ to enact organ donations laws

Chris Heaton-Harris was meeting with six-year-old Daithi MacGabhann, who is on the transplant waiting list, and his parents on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

DUP urges Sinn Fein to explain £4m rates exemption for student apartment blocks

It follows concerns that an unresolved tax "loophole" means some student accommodation blocks do not pay rates

Belfast Live

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Stormont catering contract awarded to firm supplying 'substandard' food to US prisons

The company has come under fire over its catering for refugees and asylum seekers in the Irish Republic and US prisoners

Belfast Live

New Northern Ireland planning applications portal "unacceptably poor" says architecture group

"Many functions worked better on the old system"

Belfast Live

Brendan Hughes: Whistleblowing vet case shows lessons not learned from RHI

Three years since the RHI inquiry report, an investigation into another Stormont controversy has shown strikingly similar failures

Belfast Live

M&S chair says UK Government’s ‘baffling’ post-Brexit plans will wreck trade

Archie Norman, who is also an ex-Conservative MP, has urged the Government to convince the EU not to consider separate labelling for goods sold in Northern Ireland

Wales Online

UK not placing any deadlines on EU talks to resolve NI Protocol – Heaton-Harris

The Northern Ireland Secretary is currently on an investment-focused visit to the United States.

The Independent UK

Protocol deal ‘bound to fail’ if it does not address unionist concerns

DUP MP Gavin Robinson also dismissed the suggestion that powersharing rules could be changed to override his party’s veto on forming an executive.

The Independent UK

Sinn Fein MPs don't need to declare party wages on register, says parliamentary standards watchdog

TUV leader Jim Allister has written to the standards commissioner questioning the "obvious loophole" in the rules

Belfast Live

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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar stresses hard border must be avoided as UK-EU talks continue

The DUP has refused to enter the Stormont Assembly until unionist concerns are dealt with

The Guardian - UK

Can DUP be brought in from the cold to end Northern Ireland protocol row?

Party has set conditions for a deal but former taoiseach Bertie Ahern says solution is ‘not rocket science’

The Independent UK

Protocol row ‘isn’t rocket science’, says ex-taoiseach in call for solution

Bertie Ahern was speaking at the Northern Ireland Committee at Westminster on Monday.

The Independent UK

EU and UK negotiators must be given ‘space’ to reach NI Protocol deal

Ireland’s deputy premier Micheal Martin said both sides had to overcome challenges if an agreement was to be stuck.

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Adoption and social care legislation in Northern Ireland stalled due to Stormont's collapse

They are the latest bills confirmed to be facing delays after it emerged legislation on organ donation has been stalled

The Independent UK

Varadkar expresses regret that NI Protocol was imposed without unionist consent

The Irish premier said the prospect of an EU/UK deal on the contentious trading arrangements was ‘very real’.

The Guardian - UK

Leo Varadkar admits regrets over Northern Ireland protocol

Ireland’s taoiseach regrets Brexit arrangement imposed without agreement of unionists and nationalists

Belfast Live

Stormont: Latest powersharing deadline in NI passes without a breakthrough

The UK government has once again assumed a legal duty to call a snap Assembly election in the region within 12 weeks

The Independent UK

Latest powersharing deadline in Northern Ireland passes without a breakthrough

The Government is to hold back on calling an election in the short term amid hopes the EU and UK can strike a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Belfast Live

Former DUP minister Edwin Poots' bid to halt Brexit Protocol checks cost public £57,000

The spending has been described as "political posturing" and "clearly a waste of public money"

The Independent UK

Mountain to climb to resolve NI Protocol issues, says Irish deputy PM

Micheal Martin said the EU/UK negotiations needed to be given ‘time and space’.

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