A new £2m (€2.4m) fund aimed at bringing down Northern Ireland’s peace walls by building confidence between divided communities has been announced.

How the DUP handles plans for an Irish Language Act will indicate whether power-sharing in Northern Ireland will work or is doomed to failure, Gerry Adams said tonight.

Sinn Féin would favour two ministers of equal standing taking charge of any future Department of Justice at Stormont, a senior figure in its Assembly team revealed today.

All parties aspiring to be part of the government of Northern Ireland must turn their backs on violence for good, the Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists insisted today at the launch of the party's election manifesto.

Millions of pounds are being sucked out of the Northern Ireland Executive’s budget in administrative costs because the government is too big, one of its ministers claimed today.