Martin McGuinness tonight revealed a meeting with Taoiseach Brian Cowen over the transferring of policing and powers was constructive.

Hundreds of child abuse victims in the North demanded a full inquiry today into the mistreatment they suffered in institutions run by the Catholic Church and the state.

Sinn Féin would favour two ministers of equal standing taking charge of any future Department of Justice at Stormont, a senior figure in its Assembly team revealed today.

The appointment of a police widow as the North’s interim victims’ commissioner was designed to placate the DUP, a report confirmed today.

FORMER Old Bailey bomber and prison escapee Gerry Kelly could be in line for a senior cabinet post in the Northern Ireland power sharing government, it emerged last night.

British and Irish ministers need to step up the pace of talks designed to restore devolution in Northern Ireland, a senior Sinn Féin figure said today.

Northern Ireland is gearing up for a series of events to mark UK Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27.

The site of the old Maze Prison could be turned into a wind farm big enough to power nearby Lisburn in Co Antrim, it was claimed tonight.