Northern Ireland Secretary of State James Brokenshire is expected to face calls to name the date for the second Stormont election in eight months.

Political chaos in Northern Ireland will not derail Brexit, Secretary of State James Brokenshire has said.

Political chaos in Northern Ireland will not derail Brexit, Secretary of State James Brokenshire has said.

Stormont's First Minister has accused her Sinn Féin partners in government of playing a game of chicken over a green energy scheme scandal and warned she would not blink first.

Sinn Féin has warned a collapse of the powersharing institutions at Stormont is an option if First Minister Arlene Foster refuses to stand down to allow a probe into her handling of a botched green energy scheme.

The SDLP could be poised to leave the North's Executive and take a place on the opposition benches.

Enterprise ministers on both sides of the border should co-operate to create jobs in areas of high need across Ireland, Sinn Féin has said.

The Northern Ireland Assembly has today passed a hard-hitting budget dealing with billions in cuts from London, but ministers were left divided over the controversial financial plan.

Two of the parties in the North's power-sharing Government are poised to vote against a hard-hitting Budget that follows £4bn in cuts from London.

The SDLP have branded the draft Budget lazy and unimaginative – heightening fears of a Stormont split on the crucial legislation.

New legislation on defusing tension over controversial marches in Northern Ireland can be salvaged despite an Orange Order decision to reject the plan, senior politicians said today.

The North’s political leaders will today face the first challenge in implementing the landmark agreement to save the region’s power-sharing government.

Stormont Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie was today elected as the new leader of the SDLP.

The SDLP will select a new party leader today after Mark Durkan stepped down following eight years in the post.

The North's political parties were under increasing pressure today to agree a deal to save the region's power-sharing government.

Northern Assembly member Ian Paisley Jnr was fined £5,000 (€5,862) today for refusing to reveal the name of a confidential source.

The North's power-sharing government is being driven by a Democratic Unionist party (DUP) agenda, nationalists claimed today.

Defendants in court cases in the North would have the right to give evidence in Irish under new proposals to protect the rights of Irish speakers launched today.

Democratic Unionist Economy Minister Arlene Foster today won a high profile council by-election in the North.

Confirmation that the IRA’s ruling Army Council has been disbanded will not necessarily pave the way for devolved policing and justice, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said tonight.

The Ulster Unionist party is to discuss its future policies in Belfast today.

British and Irish government plans for a political initiative for Northern Ireland during 2006 must include the scrapping of a Bill dealing with murders during the Troubles, officials were told today.

DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley has said the leaders of "IRA/Sinn Féin" had lied in their responses to recent accusations of criminality and "maligned" their accusers.

Irish and British government proposals aiming to break the deadlock in the Northern Ireland peace process were in parts “nothing short of shameful”, SDLP leader Mark Durkan claimed today.