Nationalist residents have poured cold water on hopes of a breakthrough in the long-running dispute over the annual Orange Order march at Drumcree.

Sinn Féin will welcome any electoral challenge to it from republicans opposed to moves to get involved in policing structures in the North, Martin McGuinness claimed.

In the North, the Parades Commission has said no more than one thousand people may take part in an Orange Order march at Drumcree this evening.

Nationalists in Portadown have asked the Parades Commission to review its decision not to impose any restrictions on an Orange Order march in the Co Armagh town this weekend.

A controversial Orange Order march in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast has passed off peacefully this morning.

Four youths were being questioned today over clashes at an Orange Order march that left two people injured.

Loyalists and nationalists in Belfast were today breathing a sigh of relief after a contentious Protestant Orange Order march passed peacefully in the west of the city.

The first contentious Orange Order march of the year is due to take place in north Belfast later today.

No loyalist paramilitary disarmament is imminent, Northern Ireland police chief Sir Hugh Orde said tonight.

The Ulster Defence Association has issued a statement demanding that the British government ends its "suppression" of Protestants in the North.

LOYALIST paramilitaries who brought their gunmen onto the streets of Belfast during ferocious rioting are set to have their ceasefire declared over.

Loyalist gunmen opened fire on police and soldiers for a second night running amid ferocious new rioting on the streets of the North.

There has been widespread condemnation of yesterday’s rioting in Belfast.

Violence has escalated at the Orange Order march in West Belfast after loyalists opened fire on police with automated weapons.

When Mo Mowlam became Northern Ireland Secretary, she may well have had her hero Winston Churchill in mind – and his declaration that history would be kind to him because he intended to write it.

The Parades Commission has banned an Apprentice Boys march from passing through the nationalist Ardoyne area of north Belfast later this month.

A police chief today urged officers to fire baton rounds sooner, in a bid to halt any repeat of the rioting that left nearly 90 people injured in Belfast.

Sinn Féin has criticised those responsible for throwing blast bombs at police officers during riots in north Belfast last night.

Loyalists in Belfast have attacked a Catholic home in north Belfast ahead of a contentious Orange Order march in the area this evening.

Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly has criticised the Parades Commission’s decision to allow a contentious Orange Order march to pass through a flashpoint area in north Belfast on Monday.

Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly has accused the Parades Commission of caving into unionist pressure by reversing its decision to re-route a contentious Orange Order march in Belfast.

The Parades Commission has imposed severe restrictions on an Orange Order march due to take place in Co Antrim village of Dunloy on Easter Sunday.

The SDLP is appealing for calm along the peace line in west Belfast, ahead of this afternoon's contentious orange order parade.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern were today preparing for a fresh push to prevent the collapse of the Good Friday Agreement.

The Orange order has put new proposals to the Parades Commission in an attempt to reverse the decision to divert next Sunday’s Orange Order march from the Garvaghy Road.

The Northern Ireland Parades Commission was due to announce today if it will overturn a ban on an Orange Order march through a nationalist area of Portadown.