Speaker Edwin Poots is to review an incident in the assembly where his Sinn Fein deputy reprimanded a TUV MLA for raising issues about how the Stormont institutions handled issues surrounding her ...

MLAs have backed a TUV motion which said a Northern Ireland Assembly report into salaries and expenses – prompted by the Michael McMonagle scandal – had ‘muddied the waters’ over rules for how public ...

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has announced a minor reshuffle of her frontbench, with two first-time TDs promoted. Louth ...

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First Minister Michelle O'Neill has said there are "lessons to be learned for everybody" following a Stormont report examining the employment of a former Sinn Féin press officer who was later ...

A report found that former Sinn Fein press officer Michael McMonagle likely mispresented details of his employment.

The review by the Northern Ireland Assembly found Michael McMonagle likely "misrepresented" details of his employment which may have resulted in a "misuse of public money". The matter has since ...

The recent conviction of Sinn Féin press officer Michael McMonagle for serious child sex offences has highlighted systemic flaws in Northern Ireland’s approach to political appointments. While ...

Sinn Féin ‘has questions to answer’ over McMonagle employment, says DUP minister DUP Communities minister Gordon Lyons says Sinn Féin has questions to answer over its employment arrangements ...

The Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday published a report which found that Michael McMonagle likely misrepresented details of his employment which may have resulted in a misuse of public money.

Gordon Lyons said public confidence in Stormont had "taken a hammering" over the Michael McMonagle controversy and Sinn Féin needed to act to ensure trust in the political institutions was restored.