Work to dismantle one of the most infamous army watchtowers in Northern Ireland will get under way today.

The home of Gerry Adams and others belonging to Sinn Féin members in west Belfast were targeted in ball bearing attacks, the party claimed today.

Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four wrongfully imprisoned for the IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974, has welcomed the British Prime Minister's apology to the Conlon and Maguire families.

Community workers in the North have called for urgent action to address the rising suicide rate in Belfast.

Sinn Féin has blamed loyalist paramilitaries for attempting to send more than 10 envelopes containing bullets to Sinn Féin representatives.

A missing woman found dead at a flat in Belfast may have been repeatedly stabbed and beaten, it emerged today.

Police in Belfast are investigating an overnight attack on the home of Sinn Féin MLA Fra McCann in the Lower Falls Road area of the city.

Four men are being questioned by detectives investigating IRA punishment attacks in Belfast.

Republicans were tonight told to be on their guard against attacks from loyalist paramilitaries after the homes of two Sinn Féin members had ball bearings fired at them.

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

A murder investigation was under way today after a west Belfast man was gunned down in front of his children after a row with dissident republicans flared out of control.

A west Belfast man was gunned down in front of his children after a row with dissident republicans flared out of control, it emerged tonight.

The British government today confirmed it will install close circuit television cameras along the peaceline in east Belfast in a bid to stop sectarian rioting.

Police in Northern Ireland today defended their handling of a loyalist paramilitary group’s show of strength on Belfast’s Shankill Road at the weekend.