Sinn Féin tonight condemned an attack on a former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier after a concrete block was thrown through his car window.

Detectives were tonight given an extra 48 hours to question an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections about the attempted murder of a soldier more than 25 years ago.

Sinn Féin has condemned the arrest of an independent republican candidate outside the Assembly election count centre in Omagh yesterday.

Fermanagh South Tyrone was tonight shaping up to be a dull election story - until one of the candidates got arrested in connection with an attempted murder.

A candidate in the North's Assembly elections was tonight being questioned about the attempted murder of a soldier more than 25 years ago.

Independent republican candidates standing against Sinn Féin in the North's Assembly Elections will not be a flash in the pan, a leading Irish American sympathiser claimed today.

A Unionist leader standing in six constituencies in the North's Assembly Elections today warned the British government against interfering if he is elected to more than one seat.

The North’s Assembly Election campaign will today go up several gears as candidates lodge their nomination papers for the March 7 poll.

Republicans who broke away from Sinn Féin 20 years ago are to challenge Gerry Adams' party in at least 11 constituencies in the forthcoming Stormont Assembly Election.

Gerry Adams today denied Sinn Féin was dancing to the Democratic Unionist Party’s tune on policing.

Sinn Féin is being forced into u-turn after u-turn because of the insatiable demands of Ian Paisley, a former party member said tonight.

Former IRA prisoner Gerry McGeough has confirmed his intention to stand against Sinn Féin in the next Assembly election.

Sinn Féin will welcome any electoral challenge to it from republicans opposed to moves to get involved in policing structures in the North, Martin McGuinness claimed.

A report into Special Branch officers' involvement with a loyalist paramilitary gang by the North's Police Ombudsman will make uncomfortable reading, Northern Secretary Peter Hain admitted today.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is embarking on the first in a series of public meetings across the North to consult republicans about his party's plan to endorse the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).