2016 has been a year to remember and not for all the right reasons. Political editor Daniel McConnell looks back on some key events.

Ulster Unionist MP Danny Kinahan has apologised for posting a photograph on Twitter which showed him standing in front of a Co Antrim bonfire with an Irish tricolour placed on top of it.

The tactics used by the Fingal battalion foreshadowed those used in the War of Independence, writes Paul Maguire

Details of what was being done this week 100 years ago by those planning the Rising, and how it was observed by British authorities in Ireland.

A Sinn Féin councillor has been expelled from the party and another suspended for a year amid a wider internal row involving claims of bullying against a sitting TD and a loan from the organisation’s funds.

A century-old document has revealed how the official weather readings for the capital are blank during the 1916 Rising.

A Sinn Féin local election candidate who was suspended from the party for allegedly threatening to send an ex-prisoner after his wife has won a High Court order lifting the suspension.

I was the main speaker at the Sinn Féin Commemoration for Seán South in Limerick City on Jan 6.

An author of the internal report into RTÉ’s controversial Frontline presidential debate is threatening to sue the Irish broadcasting watchdog over the fallout.

Editorial failings in the production of RTÉ’s controversial Frontline presidential debate were more significant than it admitted, the broadcasting watchdog has revealed.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has said it was broadly satisfied with RTÉ's assessment of the Frontline Presidential debate, which they last week admitted was responsible for changing the course of the election.

The North's Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, has addressed a Sinn Féin event in London this evening.

With constituencies in general growing larger, parties will find it easier to implement gender quotas. But some areas will see unprecedented competition, writes Adrian Kavanagh

For now, at least, Mick Wallace says he will not resign from the Dáil.

Sinn Féin has delivered a message to Government saying the Irish people have had enough of cuts.

Sinn Féin is hosting the first of two conferences on uniting Ireland in Dublin today.

A NUMBER of protests passed off without incident just over 100 metres from the English Market during Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Cork.

SINN FÉIN said it is working closely with gardaí on its plans for an event in Cork city to coincide with the British Queen’s visit next Friday.

Orangemen will be urged by their leaders today to back key parading proposals linked to the landmark deal to devolve law and order powers to the North.

THE growing internal crisis within Sinn Féin resurfaced at the weekend with the resignation of another Dublin city councillor.

The Orange Order has criticised comments made by the North's Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, at a Sinn Féin event over the weekend.

The war-torn Middle East can learn from the Irish peace process by ending violence through dialogue, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said today.

Families of people killed by British soldiers during the North's Troubles urged the British army today to call off a contentious parade for troops returning from Afghanistan.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) launched a personal attack on Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams tonight in a sign of growing political tension.

Sinn Féin is to hold its annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration in Co Kildare today.

I agree with the line in your editorial (March 24) which proclaimed “nobody should have the right to denounce anybody for commemorating the people of 1916”. I take it then that “anybody” includes the right of political parties and their supporters to commemorate those who took part in the Rising.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams will today address party colleagues at his first annual conference since devolution returned to the North.

Sinn Féin is to hold a major conference in Dublin today where the party's priorities for the coming years will be outlined.

Sinn Féin should end attacks on Protestant villages before they launch their charter of unionist engagement next week, the DUP said today.

The republican movement needs to move quickly to build unionist confidence if there is to be power-sharing in the North this spring, Sinn Féin was warned today.

Sinn Féin was today accused of "bowling short" in its motion to party members to endorse the police in the North.

A son of a former Sinn Féin election candidate who shot at three uniformed gardaí has been jailed for five years.

LITTLE Brandon Hagans hasn’t seen his daddy in a year, and the hurt of apparent abandonment torments his young mind.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern expressed his bafflement today at the collapse of the Stormont spying trial.

Detectives tonight questioned a man about the murder of Robert McCartney, who was stabbed to death after a row with republicans in a Belfast bar.

SINN FÉIN and the IRA need to make hard choices and decisions if the peace process is to be rebuilt, Sinn Féin’s Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin conceded yesterday.

ONCE a symbol of Irish Christianity, St Patrick’s Day is now symbolic of a burgeoning Ireland that counts itself among the richest nations of Europe and the world.

One of the chief suspects in the Robert McCartney murder inquiry is to be questioned by detectives, it emerged tonight.

Former Fianna Fáil deputy leader has been lined up to take part in a Sinn Féin conference focussing on women in politics, it was confirmed today.

A police raid on Sinn Féin offices at Stormont which led to the suspension of devolution in Northern Ireland had to take place for the sake of democracy, it was claimed today.

EXIT polls suggested that the Sinn Féin surge in the recent local elections was attributable in part to young, employed males, mainly from marginalised districts.

Bertie Ahern yesterday emphatically denied he gave undertaking during the Good Friday Agreement negotiations the men convicted in connection with the murder of Det Garda Jerry McCabe would qualify for early release.

Former Taoiseach John Bruton today backed ministerial attacks on the continued presence of the IRA.