Gerry Adams has made clear Sinn Féin will not back down from its demand for Stormont First Minister Arlene Foster to stand aside to allow a probe into her role in a botched green energy scheme.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has accused British Prime Minister Theresa May of having displayed "disregard for Scotland's democratic voice that was reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher".

London’s recently elected mayor Sadiq Khan lays out the argument for staying in the EU, saying it is the young who will be most affected if Vote Leave wins

Banking giant HSBC has announced it will keep its headquarters in the UK after a high-profile lengthy review.

Cutting corporation tax will help create tens of thousands of new jobs and prosperity for all in the North, business leaders said.

The Stormont House Agreement will fall if Sinn Féin pulls out of a deal on welfare reform, Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson has said.

Around 34,000 businesses in the North are set to benefit from a cut in corporation tax after the British government tabled a bill devolving powers to the Stormont Assembly.

The power to set corporation tax rates in Northern Ireland will be devolved to the power-sharing Executive if the North's politicians can reach agreement in an ongoing all-party talks initiative, the chancellor has announced.

British Chancellor George Osborne is today expected to indicate whether the power to set business tax rates will be devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Inflation figures in the UK have under-estimated the decline in living standards, with the poorest Britons seeing a “staggering” 15% decline in their incomes in the past year, according to a report.

Tens of thousands of street lights in the North could be out over winter due to budget cuts, a minister has warned.

WITH our backs to the Town Hall we set off down Main Street, keeping to the left pavement. Skibbereen is, arguably, the most ‘typical’ of West Cork market towns, little changed in the last century.

Another tranche of British taxpayer shares in Lloyds Banking Group are to be sold off as the Government continues with plans to fully return the lender to the private sector.

Toxic loans at Ulster Bank make up nearly a quarter of the £38bn of bad debts being hived off into the new internal “bad” bank at RBS.

Recently, as the anniversary of Michael Collins’s death approached, a man decided to end his life in a fashion too horrific to detail here. The action was shocking but the outcome has become a commonplace in modern Ireland; suicide is now running at over 50% pre-crash levels.

The recovery of 61 tons of silver from the SS Gairsoppa off the Galway coast highlights the treasure that is now within reach with new technology, reports John Daly

A British Government decision to make the delivery of a new economic aid package to the North dependent on progress tackling sectarian divisions is not an attempt to blackmail Stormont politicians into action, the UK's Secretary of State has insisted.

Britain's coveted AAA rating came under further pressure today after official figures showed another leap in public sector borrowing.

Martin McGuinness has been awarded an English aristocratic title to secure his resignation as an MP, the British Treasury confirmed today.

Mortgage lending in the UK reached an 11-month high in October, providing evidence that the housing market is finally picking up after a lull in recent months, lenders said today.

British Chancellor George Osborne will have to fill a £48bn black hole in the UK's public finances if he is to get his deficit-busting plans back on track, a report warned today.

Traders in the City of London will pay up to €17bn a year under the EU’s plan for a financial transaction tax but none of it will go to the British Treasury because they have opted out, according to accountants Ernst & Young.

House prices in the UK continued to edge lower last month and the market is expected to remain subdued but stable into 2013, the Halifax building society said today.

The North's struggling economy was rocked today with the loss of 760 jobs at one of its main manufacturing firms.

The new Northern Ireland Secretary has promised to help build stability and peace in the North.

The political row in Britain over the fixing of inter-bank lending rates deepened at the weekend via the publication of confidential advice from UBS to the previous Labour government on how to reduce the key Libor rate at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.

Figures released today have revelaed that the rate of inflation in the UK unexpectedly fell to a two-and-a-half-year low last month as declining oil prices started to filter through to the petrol pumps.

The latest multimillion-pound instalment of a UK loan to Ireland has been given to Dublin, the British Treasury said today.

Richard Branson's Virgin Money is to buy UK nationalised lender Northern Rock in a £747m (€873.87m) deal, the British Treasury announced today.

AN Irishman is to lead a daring bid to salvage a shipwreck containing 200 tonnes of silver worth €170 million about 300 miles of the coast.

Any future cut to the corporation tax rate in the North will have to wait for at least four years, Stormont’s finance minister has indicated.

SPANKING or banking? That was the question one wag on the phones at the British Treasury was asking journalists this week, so as to ascertain which subject they were enquiring about.

EUROPE should press ahead with a tax on financial transactions even without international consensus, the German and French finance ministers said in a letter sent to the European Commission yesterday.

SOARING fuel prices are driving the illegal trade in diesel in the North, making it Britain’s leading region for the trafficking.

THE Group of Seven nations’ pledges of liquidity injections and exchange-rate co-operation may be ill-suited to addressing the concern at the heart of the past week’s stock market rout: another global recession.

Police in the North have launched a campaign to attract 40 experienced officers from Ireland and the UK.

Belfast: A potential cut in the business tax rate in the North to the level in the Republic is not a threat to the Irish economy, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has insisted.

Reducing the North's corporation tax rate could mean a £270m (€309.3m) reduction in the block grant after five years, a British Treasury paper said today.

Proposals to overhaul corporation tax in the North will be announced later today.

The Northern Ireland Assembly could take the power to set corporation tax as part of a consultation on helping the private sector grow.

UK businesses are to see corporation tax slashed to 23% as British Chancellor George Osborne pledged to make Britain more attractive and stop international firms quitting the country.

Stormont leaders have hit out at David Cameron after accusing the British Prime Minister of failing to meet them for eight months.