A banner against a Sinn Fein election candidate and his family has been taken down in North Belfast.

It is not necessary to be a pessimist much less a fatalist to feel we are living through a moment of great change, a moment of great reversal.

The DUP has said peace in Northern Ireland is at risk if a Brexit deal draws a customs border in the Irish Sea.

I should be writing about today’s budget this morning. But there’s nothing to say, really.

However, other political parties in Northern Ireland expressed concern at Mr Johnson’s election as Conservative Party leader, particularly in terms of the potential implications for Brexit.

A former club captain back in the 1950s, and with a son (John) involved in a variety of roles from captain to president to chairman, Don’s was a voice entitled to be heard.

Senior Irish and UK government ministers have urged politicians to be careful about the language they use in the wake of the latest Twitter row between elected representatives in the North.

A second referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union would be a "betrayal", Prime Minister Theresa May has told MPs.

It could take another three months to get to the second stage of Brexit talks.

Theresa May's minority British Government was accused of "running scared" after allowing a second Labour-led motion to be approved by MPs.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is set to face criticism over Ireland’s post-Brexit border stance when he travels North this week following his insistence that Ireland will not stand for a divide on the island.

A bid to give Northern Ireland special designated status within the EU after Brexit has been defeated in the European Parliament.

Theresa May has been warned the DUP expects to see more money spent on health and education, with an end to the "dark tunnel of austerity".

A Jehovah's Witness in England embroiled in a family court dispute with his estranged wife has been barred from taking his six-year-old son to some religious events by a judge.

From the moment the exit poll was announced at 10pm on Thursday, and it was apparent that Theresa May was about to lose her Commons majority, the potential role for the Democratic Unionist Party took centre stage.

Sinn Fein leader at Stormont, Michelle O'Neill and the Democratic Unionist Nigel Dodds repeatedly clashed in a heated televised election debate this evening.

The DUP has accused Sinn Féin of not being serious about wanting to reach an agreement to restore the Stormont government.

A police officer has been shot and wounded in north Belfast, police said.

Sinn Féin has been accused by the deputy leader of the DUP of triggering a snap election in Northern Ireland to secure concessions from the UK Government.

Evidence of Provisional IRA activity is of sufficient strength to force the exclusion of Sinn Fein from the North’s powersharing government, the Democratic Unionists have insisted.

The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) said it had no option but to walk away from the North’s power sharing Executive after trust in Sinn Féin broke down.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has written to Gerry Adams seeking clarification on the people the Sinn Féin leader asked him to meet regarding rape victim Mairia Cahill’s claims of an internal IRA investigation into her abuse.

Detectives in the North are treating an overnight arson attack on a church as a hate crime.

A private maternity hospital and two consultant obstetricians yesterday apologised in the High Court to the parents of a baby boy who died soon after his birth six years ago.

Martin Dwyer was detained in hospital overnight for observation following a horrible fall at Southwell yesterday.

A Unionist MEP from Northern Ireland has called on the European Commission to take action against Republican parades.

Four hundred extra police officers from Great Britain are being deployed to Northern Ireland after a night of serious loyalist rioting in Belfast that left more than 30 officers injured and an MP hospitalised.

Democratic Unionist Party MP Nigel Dodds was taken to hospital after being struck in the head by a brick during a night of fierce violence in the North.

The Parades Commission’s controversial decision to ban a return parade by the Orange Order must be respected, Theresa Villiers told the Commons.

The DUP has condemned threats it says have been made against its members in the North.

An attempted booby-trap bomb attack that targeted a soldier in Belfast has been condemned today.

THE fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime could help secure compensation for Libya’s past support for the IRA, it was claimed yesterday.

The fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime could help MPs secure compensation for Libya’s past support for the IRA, it was claimed today.

Dundee manager Gordon Chisholm and assistant Billy Dodds were today made redundant by the club’s administrator.

COULD Northern Ireland decide the course of British politics tomorrow, after all?

A father today denied trying to kill his weeks-old baby by smothering him and poisoning him with powerful painkillers so he could continue living with the boy’s mother.

Tensions between the North’s main parties over contentious parades flared today as an Assembly working group to resolve the thorny issue finalised its work.

Members of the Democratic Unionist Party today backed their under pressure leader Peter Robinson following calls for his resignation over the scandal involving his wife Iris.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will visit the North on Monday as the deadlock over policing and justice powers deepens.

The Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) deputy leader Nigel Dodds is to lose his job in the North's government today as part of a major ministerial reshuffle.

Diane Dodds (DUP) and Jim Nicholson (UC) have been elected on third count of the European elections in the North.

Election officials in the North will begin preparations today for the official counting of the votes cast in the European Parliament election.

The North's Finance Minister was accused of moral blackmail today in a row about civil service back pay claims.

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Three companies from the North have now won contracts to work on the London 2012 Olympics, Stormont’s Finance minister announced today.

The North's Finance Minister’s blinkered approach to the budget is ignoring the dangers ahead, it was claimed today.

The North would have to slash its spending if the Ulster Unionists’ new electoral partners were in power, it was warned today.

Stormont’s finances could face major cuts as part of UK-wide efficiency savings by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, it was warned today.