Doctors are attempting to contain the spread of the virus until the summer, when it will be easier for hard-pressed health services to manage and the infection could go dormant.

A bid to give Northern Ireland special designated status within the EU after Brexit has been defeated in the European Parliament.

Sinn Fein's Martina Anderson has become the first MEP elected in Northern Ireland after topping the poll with almost 160,000 votes.

A Unionist MEP from Northern Ireland has called on the European Commission to take action against Republican parades.

A hardline unionist party was today accused of an embarrassing climbdown after it apologised for branding Irish a "leprechaun language".

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) suffered a major collapse in its vote today as a new force in right-wing unionist politics emerged in the North.

Diane Dodds (DUP) and Jim Nicholson (UC) have been elected on third count of the European elections in the North.

Sinn Féin today topped the poll in the North’s European elections today after a collapse in support for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

Counting is due to begin this morning in the North's European elections, with Sinn Féin set to make history by topping the poll for the first time.

Sinn Féin is being widely tipped to top the poll when the European election results are counted in the North tomorrow.

Election officials in the North will begin preparations today for the official counting of the votes cast in the European Parliament election.

A top election official apologised tonight to voters who were accidentally charged over £5 (€5.75) to receive their polling cards.

Unionist leaders should join Sinn Féin in negotiating a shared future in a united Ireland, deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said.

A new block of private apartments is due to be built in the notorious loyalist stronghold of Shankill Road in a further sign of the normalisation of society in the North.

“THINGS fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” — well the fallout from the Belfast Assembly poll is not quite as bad as WB Yeats’s words suggest, but he was spot-on about the middle ground parties going south.

Sinn Féin’s electoral machine outshone its politicians in West Belfast where precise vote management ensured the party seized a record fifth seat.

A SENIOR GAA official in the North was adamant yesterday that a controversial Maze Prison hunger strike commemoration in Casement Park in Belfast was not political.

Belfast City Council is telling people where to go with dozens of new street information signs.

The DUP is seeking a two week extension on the British government's November 24 deadline for the restoration of power-sharing in the North.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese yesterday scrapped plans to visit a tense and troubled loyalist area of Belfast today.

A HUGE “ghost ship” could soon light up the Belfast skyline to mark the birthplace of the ill-fated Titanic, it was announced yesterday.

SINN FÉIN has agreed to a meeting with relatives of the Omagh bombing victims.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and Democratic Unionist Assembly member Diane Dodds were today under fire for failing to attend a debate with other west Belfast election candidates on paramilitaries.

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

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Prime Minster Tony Blair will have to face up to the reality that a majority of unionists want a new settlement in Northern Ireland, they were told today.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were today due to consider their next move in the peace process as hardline unionists continued to make the running in the Northern Ireland Assembly election.

THE Northern Peace Process was heading for political paralysis last night after Sinn Féin and the DUP made dramatic gains.

Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds and Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly today became the first two Assembly members to be elected in Northern Ireland.