Northern Ireland politicians will be engaged in a hectic series of meetings today, aimed at finding a formula for restoring devolution as nationalist SDLP leader Mark Durkan called on them to implement the Good Friday Agreement.

Unionist and loyalist politicians were today heading to South Africa for talks aimed at producing a single unionist vision for Northern Ireland’s peace process.

A Democratic Unionist Assembly member was accused today of having a “sick sense of humour” as the row rumbled on over a controversial cinema advert against the euro.

Sinn Fein today demanded the resignation of Colombia’s Prosecutor General after he claimed there was considerable evidence linking three Irishmen to left-wing rebels in the country.