Sentences with phrase «dup deputy»
DUP Deputy Leader Nigel Dodds says they will not accept divergence between Northern Ireland and rest of UK on Brexit
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He became DUP deputy leader a year later.
The UUP has also agreed not to stand in North Belfast, where the DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds faces a challenge for his seat from Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly.
Not exact matches
Sinn Fein have called on the DUP to agree to power sharing by the deadline and chief negotiator Martin McGuiness has written to Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain to confirm he will serve as deputy first minister if asked.
«March 26th is cast in stone,» Mr Hain stressed, giving DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuiness until midnight on Sunday to come forward as first and deputy first minister.
The DUP refused to attend the last executive meetings and deputy first minister, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuiness, said he was «excited» by their presence.
Divided on the most significant issue facing Northern Ireland since the peace process, relations between DUP first minister Arlene Foster and her then deputy, the late Martin McGuinness, quickly deteriorated.
At the moment, the Northern Ireland Assembly is run by the DUP's Peter Robinson as First Minister and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin as Deputy First Minister.
However former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Hestletine said he didn't think an alliance between the Tories and the DUP would last the full term and warned another election could see the Tories lose power altogether.
DUP leader Arlene Foster and deputy leader Nigel Dodds cheer as Emma Little Pengelly is elected to the South Belfast constituency at the Titanic exhibition centre in Belfast
Echoing DUP views, Blair argued that Sinn Fein must show active support for law and order; but that in addition, the DUP, representing the majority of the unionist electorate, must in turn agree to the restoration of a power - sharing executive — with probably Martin McGuinness, vice president of Sinn Fein, becoming the Deputy First Minister of the executive and NIA, presumably serving under Paisley as First Minister.