The Orange Order today warned it is determined to march along its route in west Belfast before the autumn after today’s contentious parade was postponed.

Around a quarter of police agents operating in Northern Ireland’s paramilitaries have been deactivated, a nationalist member of the province’s Policing Board claimed today.

West Belfast was given a massive economic boost today with the announcement that the UK’s largest privately-owned marketing company is setting up a contact centre creating hundreds of jobs.

SDLP Policing Board member Alex Attwood claimed Gerry Adams' call for calm today was an admission from Sinn Féin that his party had lost the argument over IRA criminality.

Northern Ireland’s Chief Constable Hugh Orde will today comment for the first time on claims that the IRA were behind the record £22m (€31.3m) bank robbery in Belfast before Christmas.

A HOUSE of Commons committee is to visit Belfast to study child poverty on both sides of the peace line.

The family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane were attempting today to force the British government through the courts to release a report into his controversial killing.

A £26m (€36m) overhaul of a former engineering complex in west Belfast could create more than 700 jobs, it was claimed today.

The peace process will be plunged even deeper into crisis if ex-paramilitary prisoners are allowed to sit on police scrutiny bodies before the IRA disbands, the British government was warned tonight.

Ousted loyalist terror chief Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was today further isolated after another paramilitary unit turned against him.

FEARED loyalist chief Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair has been dumped by the leadership of the paramilitary Ulster Defence Association, it was claimed last night.

The leading moderate nationalist party in Northern Ireland was tonight inching towards accepting new Government proposals for reform of policing.