Mary Lou McDonald: “Less than two weeks to Budget day, what will Government do to get costs under control?”

You've known since June that a new pay deal had to be struck with the public sector workers. We find ourselves almost four months on, at the eleventh hour, on the brink of this strike action tomorrow. The reason we are here is because of a…

This is madness. This, in fact, is primitive treatment of any community in the year 2026. It is intolerable, and it will not be tolerated.

No prime minister has the right to “high-handedly” remove the provision for a unity referendum from the Good Friday Agreement.

“There will be an enormous sense of relief within the community this evening.”