The British Government has established a panel of experts to examine a long-standing parading dispute in Belfast that has been the source of bitter community tensions and outbreaks of serious violence.

Just when you think you have seen the worst depths of sectarian decay in Northern society, along comes another sectarian nugget to chill the blood.

Cool heads helped maintain calm in Northern Ireland during the peak of this year’s marching season, the North’s justice minister said.

Members of the Orange Order have staged a peaceful protest in north Belfast after restrictions were imposed on their parade.

A man has been stabbed during fighting between republican and loyalist factions in Northern Ireland.

The UK Government has been urged by unionists and loyalists in the to set up a commission of inquiry to examine a parading dispute that has resulted in the restriction of a contentious Orange Order parade in Belfast.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan’s expected nomination as Ireland’s EU commissioner in Brussels has been questioned after a number of controversial appointments he made to State bodies.

President Michael D Higgins is holding back from an immediate response to a public invitation to attend the only Orange Order parade in the Republic next year.

The North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness is calling for peace as marching season gets underway.

Senior unionists will meet today to discuss the next phase of their protest against a decision to ban a controversial Orange Order parade from passing a nationalist neighbourhood.

Around 300 people have attended a loyalist parade through Belfast city centre today.

The Ulster Unionists tonight rejected proposals by Dr Richard Haass to find a settlement on flags, parading and dealing with the North’s troubled past.

Proposals to resolve contentious issues in Northern Ireland would leave people considerably better off, former US diplomat Dr Richard Haass has said.

Northern Ireland’s political leaders published a draft agreement on outstanding peace process issues only hours after Executive parties failed to reach consensus on the proposals.

Politicians in the North were last night locked in last-ditch negotiations to strike a deal on outstanding peace process issues.

Final hothouse political negotiations will begin in the North today in a last-ditch bid to find agreement on contentious issues left over from the peace process.

Marathon through-the-night political negotiations in Belfast have failed to produce an agreement to deal with unresolved peace process issues in the North.

Crunch political talks aimed at resolving outstanding peace process issues in the North are set to go on long into the evening.

All party crunch talks are due to begin in Northern Ireland today to try to seal a pre-Christmas agreement on controversial parades, flags and dealing with a troubled history.

More than 100 people have been arrested as part of a major police crackdown on loyalist rioters.

Stalling development of a peace centre at the former paramilitary prison is a mistake that could jeopardise jobs and the peace process, Martin McGuinness claimed tonight.

The violent expression of indignation by loyalists and Orange Order members at the sight of the Lord Mayor of Belfast Máirtín Ó Muilleoir visiting the Shankill Road is nothing more than a grotesque display of raw sectarianism.

Up to 56 PSNI officers were injured when serious loyalist rioting engulfed Belfast city centre in violence linked to a contentious republican parade.

Serious rioting engulfed Belfast city centre tonight as police were attacked by loyalists protesting ahead of a republican parade.

A republican parade commemorating dead IRA men in a Co Tyrone town should be called off, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers said today.

A controversial Sinn Féin-backed march commemorating two IRA bombers in the Co Tyrone town they were intending to target has been restricted by the Parades Commission.

In the North, protests are expected to take place in Belfast today, as the Orange Order attempts to march through the nationalist Ardoyne area.

Four people were arrested across the North last night on a sixth night of disorder.

Police came under attack for a fifth successive night in Belfast, with around 35 petrol bombs thrown at officers by loyalists.

Politicians in Northern Ireland have backed a motion which described a ban on a controversial Orange Order parade on the Ardoyne flashpoint in Belfast as “illogical”.

Politicians in Northern Ireland today backed a motion which described a ban on a controversial Orange Order parade as “illogical”.

Neil Lennon is hoping Celtic’s Champions League qualifier against Cliftonville in north Belfast tomorrow night goes off without a hitch.

Seventy-one police officers have been injured in four nights of rioting in the North linked to the banning of a contentious Orange Order parade.

Very few of us have the magnanimity, the selflessness or humanity needed to break the cycle of hatred and bias perpetuated by tribal, racial or religious legacies.

Hundreds more police officers are to be drafted in to the North from forces across the UK after three nights of rioting linked to a parades dispute.

Loyalist rioters in Belfast have been warned they will face a judge within hours of arrest, after special courts were set up to deal with alleged troublemakers.

Trouble has flared again tonight in north Belfast in the same area that witnessed serious disorder last night.

Four hundred extra police officers from Great Britain are being deployed to Northern Ireland after a night of serious loyalist rioting in Belfast that left more than 30 officers injured and an MP hospitalised.

Democratic Unionist Party MP Nigel Dodds was taken to hospital after being struck in the head by a brick during a night of fierce violence in the North.

At least four police officers have been injured after sectarian tension spilled over into violence in Belfast tonight.

Hundreds of annual July 12 commemoration parades are taking place across Northern Ireland today.

A controversial Orange Order parade on a disputed stretch of road separating loyalists and nationalists in north Belfast has passed off without major incident.

More than 600 police officers are being drafted in from Britain to help police the 12th of July parades in the North.

The Parades Commission’s controversial decision to ban a return parade by the Orange Order must be respected, Theresa Villiers told the Commons.