The Tánaiste has criticised the British government's announcement that they would be ending certain investigations into British soldiers.

Hundreds of people have “stormed” Stormont to demand better mental health services in Northern Ireland.

Reading the text, the first impression is that there’s much more that hasn’t changed than has.

Boris Johnson's Brexit proposals will lead to a no-deal if significant changes are not made, the Tánaiste has warned.

The British Prime Minister has sent his plans to the European Commission saying it would be a failure of statecraft if they can't reach a deal.

This week the British Home Office announced it is to issue one million texts to UK passport holders.

Some of Northern Ireland's biggest problems have nothing to do with leaving the EU, but all anyone talks about now is the backstop, writes Sarah Campbell.

Rory McIlroy has spoken of the great legacy this week’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush can have, both for golf in Northern Ireland and its people.

A question on the Northern Ireland Executive may have surprised students sitting the ordinary level politics and society paper as the 2019 Leaving Cert exams officially drew to a close.

The State last year splurged almost €100,000 on catering for guests to an evening State reception and a buffet celebrating President Michael D Higgins’s inauguration.

ONLY the most optimistic political pundits expected a deal to be done to secure the return of the Northern Ireland Executive on Monday, when British prime minister, Theresa May, and Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, were in Belfast.

Many details on the Irish border question are still to be hammered out, a senior unionist has warned.

The majority of people in the North would favour the Brexit border deal rejected by the DUP, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has told the Dáil.

Donald Trump has called the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to congratulate him on his "great victory".

British Prime Minister Theresa May has been accused of jeopardising peace in the North, after reaching a £1bn deal with the DUP to prop up her minority Government.

The DUP has backed a deal to support the minority Conservative government in the UK.

Sinn Féin have blasted Northern Ireland Secretary of State James Brokenshire for delivering nothing but "waffle, waffle, waffle" to the Stormont crisis talks.

The UK's Northern Secretary, James Brokenshire, has admitted the situation in Stormont is "grave" and an election is "highly likely".

British Prime Minister Theresa May insists there will be no return to the “borders of the past” between the Republic and Northern Ireland.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has insisted he did not put pressure on NAMA to sell the multi-billion euro Project Eagle property bundle in 2014, writes Fiachra O Cionnaith of the Irish Examiner.

The creation of a body to report on paramilitaries in the North marks a decisive step toward ending their criminality, the region’s secretary of state has said.

The creation of a new body to report on paramilitaries in the North marks a decisive step toward ending their criminality, the region's Secretary of State has said.

Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, has promised a “practical solution” for the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, following Britain’s exit from the European Union.

The Good Friday Agreement is the “template” for political relationships between Ireland and the UK and has not been diminished by the Brexit vote, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has insisted.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted that it will be the 27 EU leaders and not any inner cabal who will decide how Britain’s exit from the European Union should happen.

Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister Martin McGuinness was not “kept in the dark” over the highly controversial £1.2bn (€1.6bn) sale of Nama’s largest ever property portfolio, new Department of Finance records show.

There will be no further routine meetings of the North’s power-sharing executive until the political crisis is resolved, Stormont’s First Minister Peter Robinson has said.

The late Nevin Spence’s family said that they were humbly honoured to have a state-of-the-art educational centre named after him at the revamped Kingspan Stadium in Belfast.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan shot down a request by a US law firm for a closed and exclusive sale of Nama’s €5.7bn Northern loan book, after Sammy Wilson, the North’s finance minister, forwarded the company’s request to him and said it had introduced him to interested investors.

The power-sharing administration in Belfast is facing a major crisis after a vital Assembly debate on implementing welfare reforms began without a last minute political deal.

James Molyneaux stood out as old school even in the heart of the establishment, writes Gerard Howlin

Around 34,000 businesses in the North are set to benefit from a cut in corporation tax after the British government tabled a bill devolving powers to the Stormont Assembly.

Around 34,000 businesses in Northern Ireland are set to benefit from a cut in corporation tax after the Briths Government tabled a bill devolving powers to the Stormont Assembly.

The consequences of not reaching agreement in the North peace talks would be “dire” for the political process, a senior minister has warned.

THE all-Ireland bid to stage the 2023 Rugby World Cup will be officially unveiled today in Armagh.

An Irish bid to stage the 2023 Rugby World Cup is set to be officially unveiled.

Cork GAA will receive €20million from the GAA towards the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh, it has been confirmed.

More than half a billion euro is to be pumped into counties on either side of the Irish border, Dublin’s public spending minister has announced.

Ravenhill, which has been the traditional home of Ulster Rugby for over 90 years, has been renamed Kingspan Stadium following a 10-year deal worth an estimated £5 million (€6.15m).

THREE of us who work in the community and voluntary sector went to Belfast the other night to meet a group that runs charities in Northern Ireland and to brief them about happenings in our sector in the Republic.