Powersharing is returning to Northern Ireland after Sinn Fein joined the DUP in backing a deal to re-enter devolved government together.

A Sinn Féin politician has apologised for posting a video showing him with a Kingsmill-branded loaf on his head on the anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre.

A Sinn Féin politician who continued to be paid as a Stormont speaker amid the powersharing crisis, despite not returning as an Assembly member, has quit.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of drugs offences after a 19-year-old woman died.

A new talks process is about to begin at Stormont to determine the shape of the new power-sharing government.

Negotiations on the shape of the North's new power-sharing government are expected to begin tomorrow.

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

The trial of an evangelical preacher accused of branding Islam “heathen” and “satanic” has opened with gospel music being played in a Belfast courtroom.

In the North, Traditional Unionist Voice Jim Allister has said he expects the Stormont Executive to collapse.

An eight-year-old boy and a middle-aged man lost their lives in separate road accidents yesterday.

Three criminal cases linked to the alleged rape of a Belfast woman who insists the republican movement covered up her claims are to be independently reviewed, the Public Prosecution Service has announced.

A father of three remained in a critical condition in hospital today following a farm accident that claimed the life of his eight-year-old son.

Up to 500 people are expected to attend a homecoming party for John Downey in Co Donegal.

The Stormont talks led by those very patient Americans, Richard Haass and Meghan O’Sullivan, aimed at consolidating progress made in the North in recent years, may not have ended in an entirely positive way but it is not unreasonable to hope that even this inconclusive episode represents an advance of sorts, especially in a society still so unable to be at ease with itself.

Political parties have been asked for their views on a new flag for Northern Ireland.

The Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker has criticised three MLAs he claims used offensive remarks during a debate on the Police Ombudsman.

GAA president Liam O’Neill has said the body has no policy on the naming of new clubs.

GAA pundit Joe Brolly has suggested it is nobody else’s business if gaelic clubs are named after dead republican paramilitaries.

Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland has been summoned to appear before his Stormont scrutiny committee following allegations of political interference in the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.

We write to highlight the grave matter of how legislation in the Republic may affect the fight for the unborn child in Northern Ireland.

Assembly members in the North are today poised to vote through a controversial bill barring ex-prisoners guilty of serious offences from becoming special advisers to Stormont ministers.

Relatives wept as former Ireland rugby star David Tweed was jailed for eight years for a catalogue of child sex abuse.

A toddler has been seriously injured after accidentally setting himself on fire at his home in Ballymena.

More than twice as many Catholics as Protestants have been appointed to the board of Sport Northern Ireland, it was claimed tonight.

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

Northern Ireland’s Tourism Minister is to enter talks to ensure an historic First World War battleship berthed in Belfast remains in the city.

Appointing a woman once dubbed Britain's "most wanted" IRA suspect to a new forum for victims in the North was necessary to reflect the varied experiences from decades of conflict, it has been claimed.

A Protestant clergyman who became the first from the North to address Sinn Féin's ard fheis has today told critics he wanted to help communities "move out of the past".

Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness today pledged to re-double their efforts to create a better and shared future in the North as they were reappointed First and Deputy First Minister.

LIKE any half-decent barrister, TUV leader Jim Allister understands that the people who sit on juries don’t necessarily use their intelligence when making decisions.

Talks on the formation of a new Government in Stormont are set to get underway following the completion of the count in the North's Assembly elections.

The story of the 2011 Assembly election has repeated the same plot-line that has been played out for the last 10 years in the North.

The Democratic Unionist Party’s Northern Ireland Assembly victory was tonight hailed as its greatest ever political triumph.

A 25-year-old police officer has been killed by a booby-trap car bomb in Omagh, Co Tyrone, police have confirmed.

A PSNI officer is believed to have lost his life following a car bomb attack outside his home in Omagh this afternoon.

The Cork air crash disaster starkly shows how fragile life can be, Northern Ireland’s First Minister has said.

The North's government ministers will meet today to draw up plans for an inquiry into the water crisis that hit the region.

The failed Ulster Unionist and Conservative Party pact threw more money at the British general election than any of its opponents, it has been confirmed.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams clashed with Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson after he wore a wristband supporting the Army at a meeting with families bereaved by British troops, it emerged today.

TWO minutes after the BBC’s exit poll was announced last Thursday night, Iain Dale, the Conservative commentator, blogged: “Don’t panic chaps and chapesses.

The future of Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson was in doubt today after the sensational General Election defeat of the First Minister of the powersharing executive at Stormont.

Ian Paisley Jnr will take over from his father as MP for North Antrim.

The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson sensationally lost his Westminster seat for east Belfast today.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson announced today he would stand for Westminster in the forthcoming general election.

A suspected getaway car used by dissident republican bombers disappeared after being left for two days without police examination, officers admitted tod

Former Northern Ireland First Minister Ian Paisley will not seek re-election in the forthcoming general election, it was revealed today.

The North’s leading politicians Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness promised a new spirit of partnership today, despite their famously frosty relationship.

THE North pulled back from political paralysis last night as the last key element of the peace process was finally agreed.