The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is due to hold talks tonight with representatives of loyalist paramilitaries.

The Taoiseach is to hold talks with a group linked to the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association in Dublin tomorrow.

Eight schoolgirls were treated in hospital tonight after their buses were attacked by stone throwers at a flashpoint in north Belfast.

ELECTIONS to Northern Ireland’s collapsed power-sharing government will be held in October, it was predicted yesterday.

Elections to Northern Ireland’s collapsed power-sharing government will be held in October, it was predicted today.

A leading loyalist today urged nationalists to reserve their judgment on the Ulster Defence Association’s ceasefire until next year.

One of the most contentious loyalist parades in the North’s marching season passed off peacefully at west Belfast peace line today.

Loyalist terrorists today denied issuing death threats against the family of murdered Belfast paramilitary Alan McCullough.

LOYALISTS urged the British government yesterday to work with them to take the Ulster Defence Association down a purely political path.

Loyalists in Northern Ireland are urging the British government to work with them and help persuade the paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association, to go down a political path.

The loyalists paramilitary group the Ulster Defence Association was tonight under pressure to prove it was genuine over its declaration of a 12-month ceasefire to boost the political process.

Loyalist paramilitaries who dumped a stockpile of explosives to be destroyed by the security forces were today urged to scrap even more of their weapons.

Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams could be forced into court to face allegations he has abandoned 16,000 of his west Belfast constituents, it was claimed today.

Police arrested two men today when they foiled a gun attack which they believe was linked to a loyalist paramilitary feud in Belfast.

Loyalist paramilitaries have met in Belfast in an effort to prevent a bloody feud, it emerged tonight.

Talks between Belfast Lord Mayor Alex Maskey and loyalist political representatives to quell street violence are a step forward, the Liberal Democrats claimed today.

The home of an elderly disabled man has been set on fire after petrol bombs were thrown into his north Belfast home as he slept upstairs.

Police have used water cannons to break up a nationalist riot following a controversial Protestant Orange Order parade in west Belfast.

Police used water cannons to break up a nationalist riot today following a controversial Protestant Orange Order parade in west Belfast.

Unionist politicians were today urged to take action after homeless women and young children were forced to flee a hostel on Belfast’s peaceline.

EasyJet could face legal action after doodling adverts in chalk on Belfast pavements.