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Arlene Foster also said she wishes she had asked more questions about the scheme

Foster says RHI scheme was not her 'personal priority'

Northern Ireland / 5 hrs

Arlene Foster said she did not sign a blank cheque for the RHI scheme

Foster denies minuting was halted to prevent FOIs

Ireland / 18 Apr

Arlene Foster posted a picture to Twitter with DUP MLA Carla Lockhart

Politicians call for end to personal abuse on Twitter

Ulster / 16 Apr

Arlene Foster is giving evidence for a second day

Foster asked whether she ran 'dsyfunctional' department

RHI Scheme / 13 Apr

The Renewable Heat Incentive operated from 2012-2016

What is the 'cash-for-ash' controversy?

Ireland / 12 Apr

Arlene Foster was the Stormont Enterprise Minister at the time the scheme was launched in November 2012

DUP leader Arlene Foster defends role in RHI scheme

Ulster / 12 Apr

Arlene Foster and a senior civil servant have different recollections of a series of meetings on the issue

Foster confirms she sought to keep RHI scheme open

Ulster / 11 Apr

Chain of Stormont events could not have been predicted

Analysis and Comment / 25 Mar

Arlene Foster said Sinn Féin is trying to deliver division and dysfunction

Foster accuses SF of seeking to sow division

Ireland / 24 Mar

The UK government announced £150m to support legacy reform in Northern Ireland in 2014

Judge rules Foster acted in error over inquest funding

Ulster / 08 Mar

Arlene Foster and Michel Barnier

DUP leader accuses EU of 'over-reach' in Brexit draft

Brexit / 06 Mar

Arlene Foster said no one in her party was aware of the issue being progressed

Foster says DUP unaware of money for legacy inquests

Politics / 23 Feb

Arlene Foster said that 'serious and significant gaps remain between ourselves and Sinn Féin...'

Talks over restoration of power at Stormont collapse

Stormont / 14 Feb

Arlene Foster held talks with Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin at the conference in Killarney (Pic: Valerie O'Sullivan)

Brexit 'not about cutting off NI from neighbours'

Politics / 13 Jan

'British government involvement in our affairs will end when a majority vote for that,' Gerry Adams said

No 'absolute protection' for union, Adams says

The DUP's influence reached its peak in Phase One of the Brexit talks

Tommie Gorman: Whither now the DUP?

Brexit / 09 Feb

Arlene Foster said the DUP had asked to see the text for nearly five weeks

Foster says text of deal came as 'big shock' to DUP

News / 06 Dec 17

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he regrets that a deal was not reached yesterday

Taoiseach 'regrets' no Brexit deal reached yesterday

News / 05 Dec 17

Arlene Foster is due to meet British Prime Minister Theresa May tomorrow

N Ireland to leave EU 'on same terms' as rest of UK

Brexit / 20 Nov 17

It is ten months since Sinn Féin pulled out of partnership government with the DUP

Intense talks between Sinn Féin and the DUP adjourned

Politics / 28 Oct 17

Arlene Foster was quoted objecting to the release of legacy funding due to concerns that they would cause an unfair focus on deaths connected with security personnel

Foster to appear before court over legacy inquest funds

Legacy inquests / 27 Sep 17

Renewable Heat Incentive probe is being chaired by retired judge Patrick Coghlin

Start of hearings into RHI energy scheme delayed

Ulster / 18 Sep 17

Did Arlene Foster sell out on Brexit?

Business / 03 Jul 17

The future of power-sharing is unclear with talks to continue over the weekend

Sinn Féin seeks intervention from Varadkar and May

Stormont / 01 Jul 17

Theresa May has torn up much of the Conservative manifesto

UK govt to seek 'widest possible consensus' on Brexit

News / 21 Jun 17

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