Although this stand-off is unprecedented in Northern Ireland, an almost identical dispute has just played out in England. GPs ...

The Ulster Unionist Party is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. Having gathered support in Northern Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the party ...

An Ulster Unionist assembly member decided to quit Stormont after a dispute over a party statement on rioting in Ballymena, ...

Doug Beattie has resigned as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) on Monday. In a statement this morning, Mr Beattie said that while the UUP had seen successes in the recent Westminster ...

Mr Beattie, a former Captain in the Royal Ulster Rifles who was awarded the Military Cross, took over as leader of the UUP in ...

David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionists, Northern Ireland's biggest Protestant party, narrowly won a crucial party battle, keeping alive the province's power-sharing government.

The former Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie has said he was "beaten badly" by instructors for being Irish when he ...

Northern Ireland’s finely balanced power-sharing arrangements have been thrown into disarray as the leader of the region’s largest unionist party stepped down after being charged with ...

The leader of Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, Jeffrey Donaldson, has resigned from his position following charges of historic allegations. Donaldson stepped down immediately, pending ...