Update: Northern Ireland's political leaders have cast their ballots in the region's snap election.

Stormont's First Minister Arlene Foster will face a vote of no confidence in her leadership at the devolved Assembly later today as the fall out from a botched green energy scheme intensifies.

Lawyers in the North have begun a legal challenge to Brexit.

The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) has announced it is quitting the power-sharing administration in the North to form part of the newly established opposition.

Foyle Assembly member Colum Eastwood has been elected as the new leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).

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

Marathon all-night negotiations to resolve outstanding peace process issues in the North have failed to produce an agreement.

Blocking a controversial proposal to ban abortions in private clinics allows Marie Stopes to operate under a cloak of darkness, it was claimed tonight.

Sinn Féin veteran Francie Molloy insisted his party colleague Martin McGuinness would be a hard act to follow after winning the Westminster seat vacated by Stormont’s deputy First Minister.

Voters in Mid Ulster go to the polls today in a Westminster by-election contest that has become heavily associated with a historic Troubles murder.

Police evacuated about 100 homes today after they discovered a “suspicious object”, reported to be three mortars, in a van, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.

Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Theresa Villiers, has described the recent trouble in Belfast as "simply incomprehensible".

Police have fired baton rounds and deployed water cannon on rioters as violence linked to the Union Flag row flared in east Belfast again.

The North’s political leaders have held a marathon special meeting to discuss the loyalist Union flag protests.

British Prime Minister David Cameron today warned dissident republican terrorists that his government’s commitment to the North and the peace process was absolute.

David Cameron flew into Belfast today for talks with the North’s political leaders.

Senator Edward Kennedy made the single greatest contribution of any American to helping resolve the North problem, a prominent politician said today.

The reappearance of paramilitary checkpoints on the streets of Northern Ireland was tonight branded sinister and unwelcome.

Confirmation that the IRA’s ruling Army Council has been disbanded will not necessarily pave the way for devolved policing and justice, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said tonight.

IN THE concluding sentence of his magisterial new history of Ireland from the French revolution to the present day, Professor Paul Bew wonders if, “as ethnic rage gives way to ethnic vanity, is it really possible that the enmities of Irish history are losing their power to hurt and destroy”?

Northern politicians will today embark on a new era of power sharing as the Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness are sworn in as First and Deputy First Ministers.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain today signed the order paving the way for a new era of power-sharing in the North.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin were the main winners in the Assembly elections in Northern Ireland this week.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his British counterpart Prime Minister Tony Blair will today review their plan for reviving devolution in Northern Ireland at talks in Downing Street.

Old rivals united across Northern Ireland’s political divide today for the funeral of the co-founder and first leader of the SDLP, Gerry Fitt.

The funeral of Gerry Fitt, the founding former leader of Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic and Labour Party is being held in London tomorrow.

An elderly woman was recovering in hospital today after she was dragged out of her bed and bundled downstairs by a burglar.

The British government’s recognition of the Ulster Defence Association’s ceasefire officially came into effect today.

A number of leading politicians were among the mourners at the funeral today of former Ulster Unionist leader Harry West.

US President George Bush’s Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, Richard Haass, was due in Belfast today to begin talks with the four main parties in a bid to help end the deadlock in the political process.

Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy tonight resisted nationalist demands to lift the suspension of the power-sharing Assembly.

The headquarters of David Trimble’s Ulster Unionists were targeted in an overnight paint bomb attack.

The Social Democratic and Labour Party today called on the British and Irish governments to back down from a “whispering campaign” against the head of the International Decommissioning Body, General John de Chastelain.

Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair will assess the prospects for elections for a new Northern Ireland Assembly when they meet this weekend.

Supporters of a west Belfast man arrested by Israeli security forces demanded his release today amid reports that he was mistaken for another man.

The Government came under fire today for failing to name a new date for elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly in legislation published at Westminster.

US President George Bush is being urged to deliver a strong statement calling on the IRA to declare its war over during his two-day visit to Northern Ireland.

Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate John Hume arrived in Sri Lanka today to share his experiences with Sri Lankan officials and Tamil Tiger rebels.

Sinn Fein opened its annual conference in Dublin tonight with a series of question marks hovering over the party’s full involvement in Northern Ireland peace process.

Northern Ireland’s politicians must stop point-scoring off each other and instead respond to their voters’ desire to see things sorted out once and for all, a nationalist leader said tonight.

Nationalists feel let down by allegations of IRA spying at the heart of government, Brid Rodgers, deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party said tonight.

NEW talks aimed at easing the crisis in the Northern peace process are set to be held in Belfast next week.

Northern Ireland Secretary Dr John Reid has confirmed his intention to suspend the Northern Ireland Assembly, it was claimed tonight.

Suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly will not help bring about the disbandment of the IRA, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams warned tonight.