Lorraine Higgins, CEO of Digital Business Ireland (DBI), says Irish SMEs need a Minister dedicated to support the nation's online export ambitions

Over the coming weekends, luxury buses with complimentary wifi and mobile phone chargers will roll into county grounds all over Ireland.

A US tech and software company is expected to announce the creation of up to 100 jobs in Cork today.

One constituency remained undeclared as the Northern Ireland Assembly reached its conclusion.

Foyle Assembly member Colum Eastwood has been elected as the new leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).

Progress to resolve the crisis threatening the North's political institutions is being made, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson has insisted.

Sinn Féin has criticised a meeting between the Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the SDLP.

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Police have ruled out dissident republican involvement in the murder of a former IRA commander.

Clare Daly, in her attempt to introduce legislation to allow for termination of pregnancy in the case of fatal foetal abnormality, did the State some service, says Michael Clifford

Stormont’s Democratic Unionist First Minister has insisted his party is serious about a new political talks process in the North despite boycotting the opening session in Belfast.

The Government in the North has said it is very keen to resolve outstanding Northern Ireland peace process issues.

Had Ian Paisley’s death come a decade earlier, the reaction would have been decidedly different.

The state funeral of Albert Reynolds is continuing in Donnybrook in Dublin, and has heard a moving eulogy from his son Philip.

Pope Francis has paid tribute to the late former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds for his work as a peacemaker.

Marathon all-night negotiations to resolve outstanding peace process issues in the North have failed to produce an agreement.

Loyalist violence over the flying of the union flag will be firmly dealt with for as long as necessary, the North’s police chief declared after a fourth night of rioting.

An SDLP councillor, her husband and infant daughter were lucky to avoid injury last night after seven shots were fired at their home.

SDLP Councillor Claire Hanna, her husband and their baby daughter have escaped injury after shots were fired at their home in East Belfast, hitting the front door and windows.

Politicians and church leaders are holding talks in the North this afternoon in an attempt to stem loyalist street violence over the flying of the Union flag.

The North’s political leaders have held a marathon special meeting to discuss the loyalist Union flag protests.

Nationalists and unionists exchanged allegations of sectarianism across the Stormont chamber as a bid to unseat Minister Nelson McCausland over a parades dispute was voted down.

Stormont politicians united today to offer words of sympathy and support for the grief-stricken Spence family.

The new Northern Ireland Secretary has promised to help build stability and peace in the North.

First Minister Peter Robinson's DUP has today accused the North's Boundary Commission of gerrymandering in a fierce attack on its proposals to reduce the number of Westminster seats to 16.

The under-pressure leader of the SDLP has today apologised after calling for a pay rise for politicians.

The Government has been accused of reneging on a deal struck during the North's peace talks after pulling the plug on funding for a major cross border road link.

Doctor-turned-politician Alasdair McDonnell pledged to cure the ailing SDLP as he was elected its new leader.

Members of the SDLP will today select a new leader for the second time in less than two years.

A viable explosive device has been discovered in a heavily populated area of Belfast city centre.

Four candidates are in the running for the leadership of the SDLP.

The British Government should ban Northern Ireland MPs from taking seats at Stormont, a Westminster committee has said.

The leader of the nationalist SDLP is to step down, she confirmed tonight.

SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie could face a second challenger after South Belfast MP Alasdair McDonnell said he is being urged to step forward.

Three men remain in police custody in Belfast over the seizure of cannabis worth £840,000 (€951,000).

Northern Ireland Assembly member Declan O‘Loan was today suspended from the SDLP after he called for a united nationalist party.

High level contacts have been made with the Democratic Unionist Party as talks to secure a coalition government at Westminster intensify, it was revealed today.

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The Conservative Party was today accused of planning to decimate the North's economy just when it was beginning to recover from the global recession.

The SDLP today rejected overtures from Sinn Féin to form a nationalist electoral pact in marginal constituencies in the North.

Stormont Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie was today elected as the new leader of the SDLP.

The SDLP will select a new party leader today after Mark Durkan stepped down following eight years in the post.

Mark Durkan steps down as the leader of the SDLP today after a decade at the helm.

IT’S 125 years old this year and if some reports are to be believed, the Orange Card is still the one the British Tories feel should be played. It was Sir Randolph Churchill, Winston’s father, who coined the phrase in the aftermath of the 1885 election and it continues to have a chilly resonance for nationalists.

The SDLP’s youth wing today backed Margaret Ritchie as the next leader of the party.

The SDLP is set to hold a leadership contest for the first time in its history after a second candidate threw his hat in the ring today.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson said tonight that Thomas Legg asked him to repay £299 (€320.49) mortgage interest he claimed on his parliamentary expenses.

THE decision of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) to end violence showed Northern Ireland was leaving the horrors of its past behind, it was claimed yesterday.

The decision today of republican paramilitary group the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) to end violence proves the North is leaving the horrors of its past behind, it was claimed.

SDLP leader Mark Durkan today announced his intention to step down as party leader after the North's next General Election.