The prospect of a cross-border Nama inquiry should not be completely ruled out, according to Stormont's finance minister.

Sinn Féin finance spokesman Pearse Doherty insists a party colleague who was suspended over claims he was coaching another witness in the North’s Nama loans inquiry, acted alone throughout the controversy.

A Stormont scrutiny committee has called on the North's Finance Minister to stand aside pending the outcome of a probe into a party colleague's backchannel contact with an inquiry witness.

Stormont's Finance Minister has insisted he knew nothing of a party colleague's controversial contact with a witness to an inquiry into the North's largest ever property deal.

The first Sinn Féin mayor of Belfast to take part in an Armistice Day commemoration has described the decision to attend as the hardest of his political career.

Belfast City Council tonight elected an entrepreneur with a media empire in Belfast and New York as the new Lord Mayor.

MICHAEL McDowell is being sued by the new Belfast-based newspaper he has described as a “Provo front.”

A NEW nationalist daily newspaper is being planned for Northern Ireland, it was confirmed yesterday.