The Irish and British Governments should sign a “hot-pursuit” treaty that enables gardaí and police to cross borders to hunt down suspects, it was proposed today.

Sinn Féin have cut short their annual ard Fheis by one day because of the Northern Ireland Assembly Election, it emerged tonight.

Sinn Féin’s move to support the police in the North leaves unionists with no excuse to balk at power-sharing, NI Secretary Peter Hain insisted today.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern has ruled out a general election on the same day as a referendum on the St Andrews Agreement.

THE Government has failed to make the most of its presidency of the European Union, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams claimed yesterday.

The Government has failed to make the most of its presidency of the European Union, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams claimed today.

Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley is to be awarded the freedom of his home town in Co Antrim, Ballymena.

NOBODY can really claim to be surprised that Sinn Féin emerged as the largest nationalist political party in the Northern Ireland Assembly election last week. It has been on the cards since the 2001 Westminster and local election when the party out-polled the SDLP.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were today due to consider their next move in the peace process as hardline unionists continued to make the running in the Northern Ireland Assembly election.

David Trimble’s Ulster Unionists and the Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists are running neck-and-neck in a tight Northern Ireland Assembly Election contest, an exit poll claimed today.

Northern Ireland Assembly Election hopefuls were today awaiting results across 18 constituencies.

Supporters of the Good Friday Agreement are becoming increasingly fearful of a strong showing by hardline unionists in next week’s Northern Ireland Assembly Election, it was claimed tonight.

Unionists were tonight urged to thwart Sinn Féin‘s chances of winning extra seats during next week‘s Northern Ireland Assembly Election.

THE Northern Ireland Assembly election campaign came to life for a moment this week — but only for a moment.

Sinn Féin is poised to take at least five extra seats in next week’s Northern Ireland Assembly election, the party predicted tonight.

Supporters of Ulster unionist leader David Trimble were bracing themselves today for the release of a series of commitments by anti-Good Friday Agreement members of his party standing in the Northern Ireland Assembly election.

THE SDLP will seek a referendum on a united Ireland within the lifetime of the next Assembly, the party vowed yesterday.

The nationalist SDLP will seek a referendum on a united Ireland within the lifetime of the next Assembly, the party vowed today.

A loyalist political party was today unveiling five basic principles as part of its manifesto for this month’s Northern Ireland Assembly Election.

Next month’s Northern Ireland Assembly election seems likely to take place without a deal to restore power sharing, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble admitted tonight.

A former IRA hunger striker who may run as a Sinn Fein candidate in next year’s Northern Ireland Assembly election is to give evidence at the Bloody Sunday Tribunal on Thursday, it emerged today.