Talks will continue today today to try to re-establish a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland.

Sinn Féin is not budging on its insistence that Arlene Foster cannot return as Stormont first minister while a public inquiry into a botched green energy scheme is ongoing, Gerry Kelly has made clear.

One of the country’s premier hotels, the five-star Castlemartyr Resort in East Cork, is planning a multi-million euro redevelopment as it celebrates its 10th birthday.

Sinn Féin's new leader in the North has insisted that the party will not immediately enter into power-sharing with Arlene Foster after the March election.

Fresh elections in the North could lead to enmity and animosity and are unlikely to create a radically different assembly.

An election in Northern Ireland could clash with Brexit negotiations, the Taoiseach has warned.

Political leaders in the South expressed their grave fears for the future of the Northern Assembly following the decision by Martin McGuinness to resign as deputy first minister.

The Stormont Assembly has been plunged into crisis after all non-Democratic Unionist members walked out ahead of a disputed statement by the North's First Minister on her role in a botched renewable energy scheme.

The creation of up to 450 jobs on the island of Ireland was announced yesterday, between Galway, Roscommon, and Belfast.

The SDLP could be poised to leave the North's Executive and take a place on the opposition benches.

A young mother who lost her husband and two children and her mother and sister in a pier-side tragedy has said her surviving baby is her reason to live.

The North's retiring First Minister has said he is leaving the job confident that devolution has been secured for generations to come.

Alan King ticked off another box on his glittering CV after Smad Place finally delivered on the big stage over fences with a scintillating win in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday.

A wooden boat crammed with workers heading back to Indonesia has capsized - leaving at least 14 people dead, Malaysian officials say.

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.

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Martin McGuinness has urged politicians to rise to the challenge of securing peace and a better future for Northern Ireland following Ian Paisley’s death.

Paisley, the ‘Big Man’, maintained he never sold out on his principles, writes Chris Moncrieff

Tributes have been paid to a "highly talented" Cork pilot who was tragically killed in a road crash in Co Limerick.

Don’t Poke A Worm Till It Wriggles by Celia Warren (Bloomsbury; €6.30) is a ‘book of poems to make you squirm’.

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

I was originally due to ride Rubi Ball, who is now out for the season, in the Hennessy at Leopardstown tomorrow and so instead will team up with an old friend, Tidal Bay, for another old friend, Paul Nicholls.

I thought some of the reaction to Annie Power’s success at Ascot last Saturday was a trifle amusing.

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 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.

For a club like the New England Patriots, it shook them to their core.

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.

The ongoing US media attempts to go to war in Syria have been stepped up in recent weeks with claims that the Syrian government has been using chemical weapons, something we have all heard before over decades of US imperialism and its ongoing love affair with war and all things military.

Pope Francis today offered intimate insights into the moments after his papal election, telling an audience with the press that he was immediately inspired to take the name of St Francis of Assisi because of his work for peace and the poor.

Willie Mullins believes Pont Alexandre “seems to have everything” ahead of his highly-anticipated run in the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle (2.05) at Cheltenham.

The construction sector has slumped for the second time in six months in Northern Ireland.

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.

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