The announcement comes more than two months after BBC News NI revealed Pól Deeds and Lee Reynolds had been offered the posts.

Former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor Lee Reynolds is the commissioner for the Ulster Scots and Ulster British ...

All appointees will take up their posts on November 13 for a period of five years, Ms O’Neill and Ms Little-Pengelly ...

Michelle O’Neill says she is looking forward to working with the incoming language commissioners that have officially been appointed for Irish and Ulster Scots.

Northern Ireland's first Irish language and Ulster-Scots commissioners are to be confirmed within weeks. BBC News NI understands the Irish language commissioner role has been offered to Pól Deeds, the ...

Foras na Gaeilge deputy chief executive Pól Deeds and former Belfast DUP councillor Lee Reynolds were named by the BBC in ...

The head of the Ulster-Scots Agency has said that the lack of requirement for the new commissioner to speak the language ‘reflects the reality’ of where it’s currently at. Ian Crozier, who is the ...

Northern Ireland has appointed its first ever Irish language commissioner. Pól Deeds, who is currently deputy chief executive ...

The CEO of the Ulster-Scots Agency has said there are some in the community "who are waiting to be convinced" about the benefits of having an Ulster British Commissioner. New language laws came into ...

the official Plantation is often seen as independent from surrounding developments... The Plantation of Ulster, promulgated in 1609 by King James I and launched a year later, lasted 15 years. Like ...

The early attempts by supporters of Ulster-Scots - from "native speakers" to the Reverend Ian Paisley - to obtain government funding for Ulster-Scots language and culture are detailed in previously ...

BACK IN ACTION after a lapse of three years, Northern Ireland’s shaky government rests on a compromise so ingenious that it would impress a medieval theologian trained to argue over angels and ...