Police in the North have warned dozens of republicans that their lives may be under threat from loyalist paramilitaries.

Sinn Féin has called on the North’s Electoral Commission to scrap legislation requiring voters to register every year.

The Ulster Unionist Party has accused its main rival, the Democratic Unionist Party, of making a U-turn in relation to its policy of not speaking to Sinn Féin.

Councillors in Belfast have elected Martin Morgan of the SDLP as the city's new Lord Mayor.

Three Catholic families have left their homes in a mixed area of south Belfast after receiving threats from loyalist paramilitaries.

A former IRA commander has become the second high-profile Sinn Fein member to honour soldiers who died while fighting for Britain at the Battle of the Somme.

Belfast Lord Mayor Alec Maskey has raised the Irish tricolour in his office at City Hall.

THOUSANDS of people yesterday stood in silent defiance of the paramilitary gunmen as Belfast united in a bid to end the killing spree.

Thousands of people today stood in silent defiance of the paramilitary gunmen as Belfast united in a bid to end the killing spree.

Belfast Lord Mayor Alec Maskey has said he will be seeking the agreement of both nationalists and unionists on symbolic changes in City Hall.

Sinn Fein’s Alec Maskey has called for a full public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane after a leaked police report into the killing highlighted collusion between the RUC and loyalist paramilitaries.

A row has erupted among Presbyterians in the North over the church’s decision to invite the Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Belfast, Alec Maskey, to its annual assembly this evening.