The North’s largest unionist party may support a poll on the region’s constitutional future, a senior member has indicated.

There are more calls for an end to protests about the flying of the Union Flag in Belfast - this time from the North's First Minister Peter Robinson.

Police were attacked by missile-throwing loyalists during fresh violence in Northern Ireland tonight.

A man is due in court today charged with threatening to kill the North's First Minister Peter Robinson.

A 34-year-old man has been charged with threatening to kill Stormont's First Minister Peter Robinson.

Loyalists were urged tonight to cancel more planned street demonstrations over a Belfast City Hall decision to restrict the flying of the Union flag.

Two men being held in connection with the murder of prison officer David Black were released without charge tonight.

Stormont First Minister Peter Robinson has branded the killers of a long-serving prison officer in the North today "flat-earth fanatics living in the dark ages".

A motion is to be put forward in the Northern Assembly today asking for an apology from the Republic for the role the Irish government of the day played in the emergence of the IRA.

The Mauritian Sunday Times newspaper has apologised for publishing photographs of honeymooner Michaela McAreavey’s body after she was found murdered in her hotel room.

The chairman of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission today defended the decision to allow two rival parades to go ahead within two hours of each other in North Belfast which ended with serious public disorder and dissident republican gunmen opening fire on police.

The Queen’s Christian beliefs were described today as the bedrock of her “duty, devotion and service” to others throughout her 60-year reign.

A farmer’s son found murdered on a rural country road was blasted repeatedly with a shotgun, it emerged tonight.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson today threatened to resign if Justice Minister David Ford allows prison reform that could remove royal insignia and titles from the North's jails.

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In the midst of what should have been celebrations over Rory McIlroy’s phenomenal success at the US Open Golf Championship, Belfast has once again been convulsed in violence.

AT the world atheist convention in Dublin last weekend, Labour Party Senator Ivana Bacik warned of “a creeping fundamentalism in Irish life”.

US President Barack Obama has delivered a rousing speech at College Green in Dublin, ending with a translation of his famous campaign slogan 'Yes we can'.

Stormont First Minister Peter Robinson, who bitterly opposed the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, today led the tributes in the North to the late Dr Garret FitzGerald.

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The wife of the North's First Minister Peter Robinson is expected to attend the State banquet for Queen Elizabeth in Dublin this evening.

US President Barack Obama cannot cross the border into the North during his Irish trip unless he first travels to London, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

A soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment who was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan has been named by the UK's Ministry of Defence as Lance Corporal Stephen McKee.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny and eight of his ministers will travel abroad to represent Ireland on St Patrick’s Day.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen said his thoughts were with all of those affected by the crash at Cork Airport today.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson has described those who left a pipe bomb on a window outside a house in North Belfast as "slow learners".

Memories of the murdered honeymooner Michaela McAreavey have united people in grief, the North's First Minister Peter Robinson has said.

The North's ministers finalising a cost-saving budget could take a cut in pay and reduce the use of consultants and quangos, First Minister Peter Robinson has said.

One of the North's leading Press and PR photographers John Harrison has died suddenly at his home.

Fears of an escalation in dissident republican terrorist attacks heightened tonight after a car bomb wrecked buildings near the centre of Derry.

Former US President Bill Clinton arrived in Derry this afternoon and held meetings with First Minister Peter Robinson and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at the University of Ulster’s Magee College.

It was confirmed today that Iris Robinson, the shamed wife of the North’s First Minister Peter Robinson, has returned to the North and is receiving medical treatment.

A controversial new play inspired by a sex scandal surrounding the shamed MP wife of the North’s First Minister Peter Robinson is set to open in Belfast.

Proposed laws on parading in the North were redrawn in response to a public outcry over claims they undermined people’s right to assemble, it was announced today.

Police in the North came under renewed attack from rioters last night as the First Minister and Deputy First Minister condemned those behind the violence.

The seaside town of Portrush in the North is preparing today to throw the mother of all parties for US Open champion Graeme McDowell.

The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson sensationally lost his Westminster seat for east Belfast today.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson bought a piece of land from a developer for £5 (€5.61), the Democratic Unionist Party confirmed tonight.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson announced today he would stand for Westminster in the forthcoming general election.

The decision of the Northern Ireland Assembly to agree to the devolution of policing and justice powers will build on the gains of the peace process, the British and Irish governments said today.

The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted to devolve policing and justice powers from London.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will hold talks today with the North's political leaders on the future of stricken financial institution, the Presbyterian Mutual Society (PMS).