A senior Ulster Unionist today told candidates for the party leadership they must oppose any form of devolution which would see Sinn Féin in government if they are to stand any chance of securing his backing in the contest.

Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern should lobby US President George W Bush to relax laws which prevent Irish emigrants from returning home each Christmas, they were urged today.

Members of the Portuguese community in Northern Ireland are being bullied into paying protection money to a loyalist paramilitary organisation, it was claimed today.

SINN FÉIN yesterday 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.

Political parties in the North and in Britain must end their ambivalence towards the Euro and accept single currency as inevitable, the MLA party have claimed.