Cross-border benefit fraudsters have illegally pocketed almost £700,000 from the North's welfare system in the past three years, new figures revealed today.

Rugby league breaks new ground later this month when four teams kick off the inaugural Northern Ireland Conference.

THERE are some words you just can’t really imagine yourself writing. A few of them are “Iris Robinson has a point”.

Northern Sports Minister Edwin Poots will face tough questions at Stormont today over plans to build a £240m (€318.9m) stadium project at the former Maze paramilitary prison.

An Irish-language commissioner should be appointed to oversee the development of a strategy to protect the language in the North, the Culture minister was told today.

The DUP and Sinn Féin were making significant gains in the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections.

The dissident republican terrorists suspected of planting a bomb at the home of millionaire tycoon Lord Ballyedmond near the Irish border in Co Louth were today branded cowards by a Northern Ireland Office Minister.

Ulster Unionists will today decide who will take over from David Trimble as the party recovers from heavy election losses.

Prospective candidates for the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party faced a final deadline today to enter the race to succeed David Trimble.

A senior Ulster Unionist today told candidates for the party leadership they must oppose any form of devolution which would see Sinn Féin in government if they are to stand any chance of securing his backing in the contest.

The Belfast Giants owners have invested £2m in a bid to bring success to the fledgling ice hockey team, it was revealed today.