A political inferno around a green boiler scheme is to remove Arlene Foster from her once-seemingly unassailable job as Stormont First Minister. 

As Peter Robinson prepares to step down as Northern Ireland’s first minister and leader of his Democratic Unionist Party, the race is on to succeed him.

A brave step towards peace or grudging acceptance that military defeat was inevitable – the IRA’s historic ceasefire of 1994 still sharply divides opinion in the North 20 years on.

A Northern Ireland policing watchdog has found no evidence the Royal Ulster Constabulary was involved in a loyalist gun attack on Gerry Adams 30 years ago.

A review of intelligence linking a man cleared of the IRA’s Hyde Park bombing to two other murders found no new evidence, a former senior detective in Northern Ireland said.

The British Government is facing mass legal action over alleged collusion with loyalists in murders in the North during the 1970s.

An IRA sniper convicted of killing the last British soldier to die before the Good Friday peace agreement has been found dead.

The Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker has criticised three MLAs he claims used offensive remarks during a debate on the Police Ombudsman.

Senior members of the Democratic Unionist Party, including a minister in the power-sharing executive, crowded into the public gallery at a Belfast court as a party colleague was accused of posting an offensive Facebook message.

A Democratic Unionist councillor has appeared in court in the North charged in connection with a comment she posted on Facebook.

A former Ulster Unionist Party MP has been convicted of assaulting a motorist in a road rage incident in the North.

A controversial Democratic Unionist councillor has issued an unreserved apology for a post on Facebook that endorsed a fictional account of a massacre of senior Sinn Féin members.

One thousand people are expected to mark the murders of two Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldiers in a 1998 IRA bomb attack during a rally in Belfast city centre on Saturday.

Prominent republican Colin Duffy, currently held over the murder of a Northern Ireland prison officer, is at the centre of a challenge to the European Court of Human Rights which could force a change in the laws governing the length of time terror suspects can be held.

THE spectre of police collusion and corruption in the murders of three young men in The Miami Showband massacre over 36 years ago has been raised by an internal report of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Cold case detectives investigating the Miami Showband massacre could not rule out state collusion in the murders, families of the victims have said.

A former IRA man who attempted to murder a soldier in a 1981 ambush has been jailed for 20 years.

A British soldier killed in a landmine blast in Afghanistan has been laid to rest beside his baby daughter in the North.

IT doesn’t take long for Darach MacDonald, author of Blood & Thunder: Inside an Ulster Protestant Band, to make a provocative comparison.

A soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment who was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan has been named by the UK's Ministry of Defence as Lance Corporal Stephen McKee.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams clashed with Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson after he wore a wristband supporting the Army at a meeting with families bereaved by British troops, it emerged today.

The new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) faced his first resignation today after he was accused of snubbing gaelic games.

New Ulster Unionist Party leader Tom Elliott will meet party staff and officers today following his landslide victory.

ULSTER Unionist Ken Maginnis accused the Saville Inquiry and the British government of being “one-eyed” in its emphasis on just 13 of the 180 violent deaths in the North in the preceding year.

The UK government must not allow unionists in the North to block a deal on devolving policing and justice powers to the region’s Assembly, Sinn Féin said today.

FRED WHITE was 60 in 1998.

Two former security service members have been warned of an aborted murder bid against them by dissident republicans, it was revealed today.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg today ruled that allegations of security force collusion in the loyalist murders of eight men in South Armagh in the 1970s had not properly been investigated.

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness is to have face-to-face talks with victims of IRA violence, it was confirmed today.

A former GAA president is to address senior figures in GAA clubs across Fermanagh after a protestant player’s threat to quit the sports in the county.

The GAA tonight vowed to probe allegations of sectarianism in their sports after a Protestant hurler quit the sport.

A PROTESTANT GAA hurler and footballer has quit over sectarian abuse by rival players.

The political progress that has been achieved in the North would not have been occurred without the British Army, a senior unionist claimed today.

Sinn Féin tonight condemned an attack on a former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier after a concrete block was thrown through his car window.

Detectives were tonight given an extra 48 hours to question an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections about the attempted murder of a soldier more than 25 years ago.

Fermanagh South Tyrone was tonight shaping up to be a dull election story - until one of the candidates got arrested in connection with an attempted murder.

A candidate in the North's Assembly elections was tonight being questioned about the attempted murder of a soldier more than 25 years ago.

Sinn Féin or the British government will be at fault if there is any delay to power-sharing in the North, the Democratic Unionists insisted today.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will meet members of the Miami Showband families today.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has said it is absolutely essential that the British government examine the report’s findings and fully co-operate with all investigations into the serious issues that have arisen.

The grieving mother of an army officer killed by the Taliban while serving in Afghanistan appealed today to thieves to return precious mementoes given to her by her son.

The British government was today urged by a senior US politician to publicly acknowledge members of the police and British army colluded with loyalist paramilitaries during the North's Troubles.

A human rights investigation has found 'credible evidence' of police and British Army collusion in 74 sectarian murders during the Troubles in the North.

Queen Elizabeth II is in the North today for a parade to mark the disbandment of the Royal Irish Regiment's three locally recruited battalions.