We are fast approaching the middle of 2017 and financial markets are experiencing relative calm. Investors are well advised to review progress and consider how best to position themselves for a full-year performance.

The new deadline for forming a powersharing government in Northern Ireland is June 29.

Britain leaving the EU would actually diminish its sovereignty, ex-Taoiseach John Bruton has said.

Enda Kenny has congratulated David Cameron on his UK General Election victory, a prisoner has been found dead in his cell at Mountjoy Prison, a priest in Donegal has said he will be voting Yes in the Marriage Equality Referendum and Floyd Mayweather has branded Manny Pacquiao a “coward”. Catch up with this evening’s top and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

A school in the North will not be used as a polling station in the UK General Election after “hostile” loyalist protests during voting last year.

Unionists in the North are this morning set to begin a legal bid to unseat a Sinn Féin MP.

David Cameron today dismissed talk of deals with the Liberal Democrats in the event of a hung Parliament after the UK General Election, insisting he was fighting for an outright Tory win and the country needed “strong, decisive leadership”.

A major security operation was under way in the North tonight amid fears that dissident republicans are planning to launch attacks in the run-up to the UK General Election.

Crucial economic figures which could have a decisive impact on the UK general election will be released today, following a TV debate last night in which none of the party leaders managed to deliver a knockout blow.

Gordon Brown has marked his first anniversary in No 10 with the humiliation of seeing Labour beaten into fifth place in the Henley-on-Thames by-election.