The possibility of a resumption of power-sharing in the North remains as unclear as ever this morning as the counting of votes continues following Wednesday's Assembly election.

Pundits who have predicted the SDLP’s decline in the North's Assembly election will have to revise their opinion, its leader Mark Durkan insisted today.

Sinn Fein is seeking an urgent meeting with the North's Electoral Office following reports that thousands of voters may not receive new identity cards in time for May's Assembly election.

Unionist concerns about the peace process are expected to be discussed later today at a meeting of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in Dublin.