With all 108 seats filled in the Northern Ireland Assembly the party shares are:

Unionists were tonight urged to thwart Sinn Féin‘s chances of winning extra seats during next week‘s Northern Ireland Assembly Election.

Republicans must make clear that the transition from violence to democracy is real and permanent if devolution in Northern Ireland is to return, a senior Ulster Unionist stressed today.

SINN Féin leaders will do everything in its power to keep the peace process going and remove the guns from Irish politics, a senior member of the party vowed yesterday.

Republicans were today accused of being responsible for almost all of the problems encountered by the Good Friday Agreement.

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.

THE Ulster Unionist Party unlawfully suspended three dissident MPs from the party for rebelling against the leadership, the High Court in Belfast ruled yesterday.

Pro-Good Friday Agreement Ulster Unionists were today challenged to point to any benefits for their supporters in the British and Irish Governments’ blueprint for the peace process.

A senior member of the Ulster Unionist Party says that he could not support David Trimble going back into government with Sinn Fein while the IRA retains the capacity to wage war.

There is no evidence for nationalist claims that discrimination is taking place in Northern Ireland, a former Stormont Minister claimed today.

Nationalist claims that Catholics in Northern Ireland are more likely to be disadvantaged than Protestants in the jobs market were today due to be challenged by Ulster unionists.

The Ulster Unionist Party has accused the North's Equality Commission of peddling a myth about anti-catholic discrimination in Northern Ireland.

David Trimble’s Ulster Unionists were today urged to acknowledge the need to ensure equal treatment for Northern Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities under the Good Friday Agreement.

As the political parties in Northern Ireland pored over the census results, unionists and nationalists clashed tonight over the significance of the religious breakdown shown in the figures.

A senior Ulster Unionist assemblyman says the revived Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in Dublin is a waste of time.

Two politicians tonight withdrew from a visit to the trial of three Irish men arrested in Colombia on suspicion of training FARC guerillas.

The suspension of Northern Ireland’s devolved political institutions may be the “least worst option” to deal with the current crisis in the peace process, it was claimed today.

Stormont Minister Dermot Nesbitt was tonight accused of being “naive” about Sellafield nuclear plant after he called for the public debate on it to be based on facts, not emotion.

The Environment Minister Martin Cullen has told a major conference in Dublin that there is no justification, economic or environmental, for the continuation of operations at the Sellafield Nuclear Plant.

Outdoor drinking could leave three people dead on Northern Ireland’s roads this month, it was claimed today.

Sectarian violence on the streets of Belfast must be addressed by the British and Irish governments and parties who support the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said today.

A charity said today it would build a visitors’ centre at a popular World Heritage Site but that the development would be appropriate for the beauty spot.

A row has erupted in the Stormont assembly about a proposed pay rise, taking members wages to about £45,000 (€73,000) a year.

Stormont Education Minister Martin McGuinness today defended a new cross-border autism centre against claims it was the latest step towards a united Ireland.

The husband of a woman killed in an IRA bomb has branded ‘‘offensive’’ a weekend commemoration in Dublin of republicans killed during the Troubles.

The Provisional IRA may have shot dead a drug dealer in Northern Ireland, it was claimed tonight.

It is thought that the Fermanagh Assemblyman, Sam Foster, will resign from the North's Dept of the Environment as part of a reshuffle by First Minister, David Trimble.

The British and Irish governments have been considering a review of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission as part of their package of proposals to rescue the Good Friday Agreement, it was claimed tonight.

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission today called for a halt in the use of plastic bullets by the RUC.

The Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble is insisting all the UUP candidates in the General Election are standing fully behind the party election manifesto.