Unionists fiercely resist calls for a border poll on a United Ireland, but that was not always the case. David Trimble campaigned for a poll in 2002 but was dismissed by British prime minister ...

Devolved powersharing had been restored to Northern Ireland in May 2000 when Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble received the backing of his party to go back into the Assembly, despite there ...

Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble objected to Tourism Ireland having powers to run advertising campaigns in Britain encouraging visitors to the island of Ireland. The highly successful ...

Michael Collins, the official who would go on to be Ireland’s ambassador to the US, wrote in a confidential memo: “On the border poll idea, Powell said that Blair told Trimble to ‘get lost’.

The Executive at its meeting in June 2000 led by first minister David Trimble and deputy first minister Seamus Mallon expressed concern over whether regional development minister Peter Robinson ...

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The Northern Ireland secretary knew for “some months ... of direct rule when then-first minister and UUP leader David Trimble threatened to collapse the administration. Minutes from a phone ...

A MARKETING PLAN by Tourism Ireland was delayed because the late David Trimble, then-leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), objected to Great Britain being referred to as “overseas”.