Sinn Féin's Chairperson in the North has hit out at those who used 12th of July parades as an opportuity to incite what he calls, hatred.

Update - 9.23pm: A son of the late Martin McGuinness has called for an end to "displays of hate" at loyalist bonfires after a coffin bearing a picture of his father was placed on one in Belfast.

Negotiations to salvage powersharing in Northern Ireland are set to continue as parties mount a last-ditch effort to strike a deal ahead of Thursday's deadline.

Latest: The talks have been adjourned, with discussions due to resume on Wednesday morning.

Arlene Foster's leadership of the Democratic Unionists remains a stumbling block that could scupper crunch talks to end a powersharing stalemate in Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin has warned.

Sinn Féin has confirmed that a review of salaries for its Oireachtas members is under way.

A viable device has been discovered in a County Antrim village, forcing residents to be evacuated from their homes while police investigated.

Sinn Féin insisted yesterday its decision to temporarily freeze the expulsion of east Cork county councillor Kieran McCarthy over serious financial allegations, was not linked to the politician threatening to take legal action.

Sinn Féin’s ard fheis in Derry was a fast-paced bellicose gathering of a party hungry for power and baring its teeth before next year’s general election.

As many as 150 Aer Lingus staff across Dublin, Cork, and Shannon airports could be made redundant as a result of a voluntary severance scheme which was opened to employees earlier this week.

The travel plans of thousands of Aer Lingus passengers face further disruption this month after the union representing cabin crews announced two more days of strike action.

Aer Lingus cabin crew protesting outside the country’s three main airports said they hope they will not have to take to the picket-line again this summer — but warned they would if next week’s talks over their rosters are not successful.

Aer Lingus cabin crew have begun their 24 hour strike at the country's major airports.

With just 10 days to go before a strike grounds up to 28,000 of its passengers, Aer Lingus has denied cabin crew claims they are having to work 60-hour weeks and accused them of trying to double their paid leave.

Airlines are keeping their promise to deliver more routes and capacity in exchange for the removal of the air travel tax.

The recent election of the IRA’s former head of intelligence to a prominent position in Sinn Féin north of the border is being viewed by some as an attempt to prepare the ground for the eventual election of a southern politician to take over from Gerry Adams.

IT WOULD be an extraordinary turn of events if Gerry Adams was to see his political career ended by the gross misjudgment he exercised in his greatly delayed reporting of his niece’s allegations of sexual abuse against her father, his brother Liam.

The decision to abolish the €3 air travel tax has been broadly welcomed by the aviation and tourism sectors.

Aer Lingus’ new winter schedule contains no new flights from Cork Airport, with all of the new routes announced based in either Shannon or Dublin.

Snowy conditions in London and Paris have caused Aer Lingus to cancel six round-trip flights today - but the airline says it will accommodate all affected passengers on other flights.

Peter Robinson has called on Gerry Adams to admit he was in the IRA. The DUP leader was hitting back at republicans in the latest in a spate of tit-for-tat attacks.

A man whose wife and father-in-law were killed in an IRA bombing will be among a wide variety of speakers attending the year’s Sinn Féin summer school which gets under way in Co Cork this evening.

Martin McGuinness and Sinn Féin sources have dismissed suggestions that the IRA is preparing to make an unequivocal apology to victims of the troubles, including the North’s security forces.

Police in the North have arrested six people after a masked man at a republican commemoration threatened further violence by dissidents opposed to the peace process.

Aer Lingus today announced the addition of a new Cork to Brussels route to its 2012 summer schedule.

Aer Lingus have announced a seat sale across its entire network.

Aer Lingus today announced 10 new routes as part of its winter schedule for 2011/2012 including a route from Cork to Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.

A MAN found lifeless in his bedroom with a plastic bag around his head died of asphyxiation after inhaling helium, a gas commonly used for blowing up balloons.

Aer Lingus today announced the introduction of a new daily service between Shannon and London Gatwick, which will commence on March 27.

Aer Lingus today announced new summer routes including the first direct scheduled flights between Dublin and Izmir in Turkey, Perpignan in France and to the German city of Stuttgart.

Aer Lingus today announced new routes and increased frequencies on flights from Cork and Belfast to Spain and the Canary Islands for summer 2011.

Aer Lingus today announced a new three times weekly service between Shannon and Paris Charles de Gaulle, to begin on December 17 next.

Sinn Féin‘s first councillor in Banbridge, Co Down, has resigned, it was revealed tonight.

Under pressure Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams today insisted he did not know his suspected child abuser brother worked for his party in the heart of his own constituency.

The suspected child abusing brother of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams worked for the party in Belfast after being forced out of a branch in the Republic over the allegations, Sinn Féin admitted today.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is pursuing policies that will create a political train wreck in the North, Sinn Féin claimed today.

Threats from Sinn Féin will stall negotiations on the devolution of justice powers, the DUP leader warned today.

Sinn Féin will crank up the pressure on the North's power-sharing government if there is no deal to devolve policing and justice powers, a senior republican signalled tonight.

Gardai have named the two young men who were killed in a road accident in Co Kildare.