The Government today announced €850,000 funding for cross-community and cross-border projects helping to defeat sectarianism.

The DUP and Sinn Féin grasped the opportunity of a lifetime when they agreed to enter a power-sharing government, Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said today.

A total of €816,000 is to be paid out to cross-border community groups in a range of new grants from the Department of Foreign Affairs.

A museum cataloguing the Troubles era in Derry is to open with the help of grant aid from the Government, it was confirmed today.