Irish and British ministers are to meet in Dublin to discuss the implementation of the Fresh Start Agreement.

David Cameron will tell the leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that it is time to concentrate on best using the powers they have rather than debating what more could be devolved.

Hundreds of people have attended a memorial service for Northern Ireland’s former first minister Ian Paisley.

Fresh talks to break the deadlock in the North's peace process are to be launched, the Irish and British governments have signalled.

A man arrested in connection with the murder of a former dissident republican has been released by police.

Plans for a cross-border bridge at the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles have been dealt another blow after funding from Europe was pulled.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is meeting the North's First and Deputy First Ministers at today's North-South Ministerial Council meeting in Armagh.

The offices of the North’s First and Deputy First Ministers have been evacuated because of a security alert.

Manufacturing giant Caterpillar has announced a major £7m (€8.2m) investment at its factories in the North.

Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will meet schoolchildren today during a brief visit to Belfast.

Dr Richard Haass is to begin the first round of critical talks aimed at resolving some of the North's most divisive issues.

A Japanese global healthcare company is creating 416 jobs in Northern Ireland.

It's not every day you nearly upstage the most powerful man in the world.

President Barack Obama urged Northern Ireland’s politicians today to keep working towards a permanent peace.

An economic pact to help Northern Ireland’s struggling economy will be agreed at Westminster today.

British Government plans to tear down all of the North’s peace walls within 10 years are ambitious, according to an organisation that has worked with interface communities for the past year.

An estimated £100m (€117m) is to be invested in the redevelopment of a site including a prison which once held IRA hunger strikers.

A viable letter bomb has been posted to a senior police officer in the North, it was confirmed today.

Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has met Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and the First and Deputy First Ministers today for talks about the Union flag protests.

The Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is calling for an all-party, cross-community response to the flag protests and sectarian rioting in the North.

Street violence over flags is unacceptable and must stop, the Northern Ireland Assembly warned today.

Hillary Clinton has been reminiscing about her first ever visit to Northern Ireland.

The North’s First and Deputy First Ministers have congratulated Barack Obama on his re-election as US president.

A 15-year-old boy is due before Belfast Juvenile Court later, charged in connection with violence in the city this week.

THE engagement in Belfast this week involving the President of Ireland, the Queen of England and the North’s First and Deputy First Ministers Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness carries with it significant symbolic, political and emotional resonance for the people of Ireland.

Stormont First Minister Peter Robinson tonight attended his first GAA match.

Survivors of institutional child abuse in the North are demanding equal treatment to victims in the Republic.

Victims of child abuse within the Catholic Church in Northern Ireland are to deliver a letter to the First and Deputy First Ministers at Stormont later.

Greater use should be made of alternatives to prosecution for lesser offences, the favourite for the justice ministry in the North said today.

Political leaders in the North meet today to discuss who should be their new Minister for Justice.

The Taoiseach Brian Cowen and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have joined the North's First and Deputy First Ministers in the past hour to address the media after a deal was struck on the devolution of policing and justice powers.

IT’S 125 years old this year and if some reports are to be believed, the Orange Card is still the one the British Tories feel should be played. It was Sir Randolph Churchill, Winston’s father, who coined the phrase in the aftermath of the 1885 election and it continues to have a chilly resonance for nationalists.

The 13th British-Irish Council Summit is being held in Jersey today.

The financial package being offered by the British government to support the devolution of policing powers to Stormont is due to be published today.

The North's First and Deputy First Ministers are due to meet other Assembly parties today to discuss the latest proposals on the devolution of policing and justice powers to Stormont.

Police chiefs in the North today poured cold water on Sinn Féin claims they were happy with the British Prime Minister’s financial package for achieving the devolution of responsibility for policing and justice to the Stormont Assembly.

All sides in the continuing talks over the devolution of policing powers to the North say progress is being made and they will continue meeting in the coming days.

A bitter row has broken out between the North's First and Deputy First Ministers over the ongoing delay in the devolution of policing powers to Stormont.

The North's First and Deputy First Ministers are due to hold more talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today over funding for the transfer of policing powers to Stormont.

First and Deputy First Ministers are to attend a special meeting convened by former US president Bill Clinton about boosting the North's economy, it was announced today.

The devolution of responsibility for policing and justice in the North looked little closer tonight after talks between British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the North's First and Deputy First Ministers.

The North's First and Deputy First Ministers are meeting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today to discuss funding to enable the transfer of policing and justice powers to Stormont.

There are fresh concerns about the stability of power-sharing at Stormont after bad-tempered exchanges between the First and Deputy-First ministers, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness.

The British Government is expect to announce within months how much it is prepared to pay to get justice and policing powers devolved to Stormont on a sound economic footing.