Lorraine Higgins, CEO of Digital Business Ireland (DBI), says Irish SMEs need a Minister dedicated to support the nation's online export ambitions

The result of the general election seems to have rocked the political status quo in Ireland.

SDLP Brexit spokesperson Matthew O’Toole said the British government is putting Northern Ireland's economy at risk.

Almost one third of those who want to join are identified as Catholic, equating to 2,158.

The posters use a picture of Peadar Heffron along with a warning that anyone thinking of joining the police could suffer similar injuries.

Latest: Leo Varadkar said Jim O'Callaghan could have recused himself from representing Gerry Adams.

Whoever we vote in, they could be making legislation that impacts our lives from now until 2025, says Joyce Fegan. How will they behave? Have they a record in action and finding unity in diversity?

Seamus Mallon, who will be buried in his beloved Markethill in South Armagh today, may not quite be numbered in that trinity of the greatest Irishmen of modern times.

They enjoyed a long, fruitful if occasionally fraught relationship. One concentrated on securing international support for their cause while the other — Mallon — concentrated on Belfast and Lon don, Dublin too.

By playing number two to John Hume, Seamus Mallon may not get the place in history he deserves, writes Fergus Finlay

Powersharing is returning to Northern Ireland after Sinn Fein joined the DUP in backing a deal to re-enter devolved government together.

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has announced that the party has agreed to back a deal to restore powersharing at Stormont – a move that confirms the return of devolved government in Northern Ireland after a three-year absence.

Boris Johnson’s election victory might have one positive impact. His 80-seat, five-year majority means the Tories are not dependent on the DUP and can insist, should they be so moved, that the bickering that has silenced Stormont for three years ends.

One of two people stabbed to death in Belfast has been laid to rest.

Irish officials were told that an increase in haulage traffic across the border would provide opportunities for republican paramilitaries through the lapse of official customs controls.

The IRA were determined to gain control of an increase in haulage business between the Republic and Northern Ireland, in a bid to extort protection money, declassified state papers show.

The bodies of a man and a woman were discovered in the apartment in the Kinnaird Close area on Monday afternoon.

Colum Eastwood (Foyle) was the first of the newly elected cohort of MPs to make his maiden speech in the Commons.

In last week’s general election, fought mainly over Brexit, pro-remain parties received the most votes, yet the pro-leave Tories won a huge majority of seats, says Jeffrey Sachs.

The political ground has shifted in the North since last Thursday’s election.

The country is heading for a general election at the end of February following British prime minister Boris Johnson’s “stunning victory” which has handed him an 80-seat majority.

Voting is continuing in the final hour of this year’s General Election.

A banner against a Sinn Fein election candidate and his family has been taken down in North Belfast.

It would be the first December British election in 100 years and there would be a five-week campaign by parties up to polling day.

Meanwhile the Healy-Raes now see a gap and may well go for the chance of a third seat, it is strongly rumoured.

Homes in the Church View area of Strabane were evacuated for a time as it was examined.

The incident involving the Belfast Model schoolboy happened in Ardoyne.

The Government’s decision to meet Gerry Adams after the IRA ceasefire showed “indecent haste”, British government officials have said.

Police in Belfast have retreated from a confrontation at a bonfire site over concerns innocent bystanders could be hurt, a senior commander has said.

Two young people are protesting on top of the pile of wooden pallets, which was due to be set alight on Thursday night.

Concern has been voiced about the appearance of threatening graffiti at a republican bonfire site in north Belfast.

Mr Varadkar's comments were jeered by a section of the crowd which had otherwise broadly welcomed him.

Structures are not in place for a border poll and a national dialogue is needed to ensure all voices are heard ahead of any such vote.

However, other political parties in Northern Ireland expressed concern at Mr Johnson’s election as Conservative Party leader, particularly in terms of the potential implications for Brexit.

Structures are not in place for a border poll and a national dialogue is needed to ensure all voices are heard ahead of any such vote.

A number of shots were fired at a house in Co Tyrone in the early hours of this morning.

The SDLP and DUP have both joined in condemnation of an attack on the life of a Police Officer in Belfast.

Ciarán Cuffe’s was on the verge of a landmark win for the Green Party in the European elections in Dublin last night after topping the poll on the first count.