SDLP leader Mark Durkan has strongly criticised both the UK Northern Secretary Peter Hain and DUP leader Ian Paisley after politics at Stormont today descended into farce today.

Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness will raise concerns today about proposals to revive powersharing in Northern Ireland at a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today threatened to pull out of talks on the review of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.

Northern Secretary Paul Murphy was warned today that restoring the North’s Assembly voting system next month could seriously damage plans to bring back devolution.

The British Government was expected today to face calls to urgently change the Northern Ireland Assembly’s voting system in a bid to avert a crisis in the peace process in 15 months’ time.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was expected to be challenged today to name a date for a comprehensive review of the Good Friday Agreement.

Northern Ireland's non-sectarian Alliance party is expecting to redesignate three of its Assembly members as unionists in a bid to keep the province's political institutions alive.

The leader of Northern Ireland’s Alliance Party was holding telephone talks today with the British and Irish Governments and other pro-Agreement parties before the deadline for saving the North's political institutions.