Brexit has placed Irish unity back on the political agenda almost a century on from partition, Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill has told her party's Easter Rising commemoration.

Election canvassers for the SDLP were targeted by a petrol bomb attack overnight, the party has said.

Compensation claims against the Roads Service across the North are on the rise because rural roads are "going to pot", it was claimed today.

British and Irish members of parliament will tomorrow be briefed on what is being described as an effective truth commission on the North's Troubles.

A supporter of Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble claimed today the independent body for the Good Friday Agreement was “fatally flawed”.