Laws to improve spectator behaviour at major sporting events in the North come into force today.

SINN Féin will take the education portfolio in the next Northern Ireland Executive.

An investigation into grants awarded to the Ulster Camogie Council should have been treated as a fraud probe, according to yesterday’s report to the Northern Ireland Assembly by the NI comptroller and auditor-general, Kieran Donnelly.

AN investigation into grants awarded to the Ulster Camogie Council should have been treated as a fraud probe, according to yesterday’s report to the Northern Ireland Assembly by the NI comptroller and auditor-general, Kieran Donnelly.

A Co Antrim river is being restocked after being brought back to life following years of constant pollution.

A senior Ulster Unionist was tonight replaced as chief whip amid claims from the DUP he was sacked after clashing with his party’s would-be partners – the UK's Conservative Party.

MOTORSPORT Ireland have stepped up their involvement in Rally Ireland and will actually promote the 2009 event that will kick start the World Rally Championship in late January. However, funding for the event has yet to be put in place.

ADMISSION charges may have to be increased if the Ulster Council is to be able to meet its continuing financial commitments, according to officials.

The Social Development minister tonight said she would not be bullied by Northern Executive colleagues over funding for loyalists in the North.

A new national stadium for the North in Belfast is a non-runner, Sports Minister Edwin Poots insisted today.

The DUP will veto an Irish Language Act for the North, one of its senior members said today.

DAVID HUMPHREYS’ dramatic Celtic League winning drop-kick has gone down as one of the most thrilling sporting images in the North’s history, Ulster’s rugby union heroes were told last night.

An independent review has been ordered at cross-border body Waterways Ireland following a major investigation into allegations of bullying and harassment against its chief executive.

The British government is expected to make its final decision on the draft budget for the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure next month.

THE GAA must not agree to any policy change on the use of Croke Park by other sports without a ‘conclusive’ case being made, according to Ulster GAA Secretary, Danny Murphy.

More than 200 people have completed a college course in stewarding loyalist band parades, it emerged today.

A special fund to help victims of terrorist violence was one of more than 30 proposals revealed tonight by Northern Ireland Finance Minister Mark Durkan.