Theresa May is to hold talks with the Northern Ireland political parties amid warnings an expected deal with the DUP to prop up her minority government will undermine the peace process.

Polling is underway in the North as the British general election gets underway. It is the seventh time in three years voters in the North have cast a ballot.

The Government yesterday agreed to formally underwrite an approximate €320m to host the Rugby World Cup in Ireland in 2023.

The new deadline for forming a powersharing government in Northern Ireland is June 29.

The DUP has accused Sinn Féin of not being serious about wanting to reach an agreement to restore the Stormont government.

The UK Government will not allow political talks to restore powersharing in the North to drift past Easter, Secretary of State James Brokenshire has warned.

Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionists are on course to reinforce their grip on power at Stormont, with the republican party closing the gap on their unionist rivals.

The polls have closed in the North's snap Assembly election.

Northern Ireland’s political leaders have traded angry words in the last televised debate of the Assembly election campaign.

Gerry Adams has said tonight's vote by the British Parliament on amendments to the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, shows that "the British government does not care one iota for the people of the North."

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.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has warned that the border of the European Union would run from Dundalk to Derry if Britain votes to leave the EU on June 23.

A new power-sharing executive will be formed in Northern Ireland after an independent Assembly member agreed to fill the contentious justice ministry. East Derry MLA Claire Sugden has been unveiled as the agreed Democratic Unionist and Sinn Féin candidate.

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.

A new talks process is about to begin at Stormont to determine the shape of the new power-sharing government.

Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has hailed her party’s “tremendous” performance in the Northern Ireland Assembly election after an unexpected repeat of its best ever Stormont haul.

Negotiations on the shape of the North's new power-sharing government are expected to begin tomorrow.

Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has hailed her party's "tremendous" performance in the Northern Ireland Assembly election after an unexpected repeat of its best ever Stormont haul.

One constituency remained undeclared as the Northern Ireland Assembly reached its conclusion.

Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has expressed confidence she will be returned as Northern Ireland’s first minister.

Ireland was not included in Britain’s conscription bill of January, 1916, but by then 90,000 Irishmen had volunteered, as many more would before 1918.

ÉAMONN CEANNT is, in many ways, the ‘unknown’ man among the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, and the signatories to the proclamation of the Irish Republic.

Shareholders are expected to make £55m (€73m) following the sale of UTV to ITV, a company statement said.

Danny Morrison is a fine writer. He is also ‘a good republican’ as Gerry Adams might say. He is not much of an historian. (Irish Examiner, Monday 11).

The North's retiring First Minister has said he is leaving the job confident that devolution has been secured for generations to come.

Arlene Foster will become the first woman to lead the North's powersharing Executive when she is elected first minister today.

A deal to save the powersharing Executive in Northern Ireland is likely to be announced imminently.

Uncertainty continues to dog political talks aimed at saving power-sharing in Northern Ireland after a British government statement failed to prompt unionists to sign up to negotiations.

Uncertainty continues to dog political talks aimed at saving power-sharing in the North after a British Government statement failed to prompt unionists to sign up to negotiations.

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Political talks aimed at saving the North's crisis-hit power sharing government from collapse will take place in Belfast later.

A senior republican whose arrest over an IRA-linked murder escalated the current political crisis in Northern Ireland has accused unionists of using his “wrongful detention” to try to pull down power sharing.

Arlene Foster will take the reins in her first day as the sole unionist in the North's faltering powersharing government.

There will be no further routine meetings of the North’s power-sharing executive until the political crisis is resolved, Stormont’s First Minister Peter Robinson has said.

Evidence of Provisional IRA activity is of sufficient strength to force the exclusion of Sinn Fein from the North’s powersharing government, the Democratic Unionists have insisted.

A DUP delegation met Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers in Belfast yesterday to discuss the furore sparked by the recent murder of IRA man Kevin McGuigan in the city and a PSNI assessment that Provisional IRA members may have been involved.

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The North’s power-sharing Executive has been plunged into fresh crisis as the fallout from claims the Provisional IRA still exists intensifies.

The DUP has retained its position as the largest party in the North but the UUP is arguably celebrating harder after landing two surprise wins in the general election.

The DUP has retained its position as the largest party in the North, but the UUP is arguably celebrating harder after landing two surprise wins in the General Election.

The Democratic Unionists are this morning wondering if the post-election shakedown will hand them added influence at Westminster after a Northern Ireland poll that produced a couple of surprises.

The 385,000 voters born in Ireland will have some influence on the result of the British election, but its outcome could yet have a great deal of significance for the Republic.