Protestants in the North face "ethnic cleansing" despite the peace process, the leader of the Orange Order claimed today.

The Orange Order today described as an historic landmark its meeting with the Government over the slashing of education grants to Protestant schools in Ireland.

An Irish tricolour insulting a Northern Irish sectarian murder victim has been placed on top of a bonfire in Co Antrim.

The British government is under fire today after announcing it will give the Orange Order more than £100,000 (€144,000) to help it try to popularise the annual July 12 parade in Belfast.

Three of the North's loyalist marching orders have held a second round of talks at Stormont with the SDLP.

THE leaders of three Protestant marching organisations in the North issued a dramatic appeal for calm yesterday in the wake of Catholic teenager Michael McIlveen’s murder.

A Protestant minister in the North has resigned from the Orange Order over the Grand Master's attitude to the law.

Nothing short of the expulsion of Sinn Fein ministers from government office in Northern Ireland will rekindle Unionist confidence in the peace process, a leading Ulster Unionist MP said today.

More than 200 people have completed a college course in stewarding loyalist band parades, it emerged today.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair are today resuming attempts to save the Northern Ireland peace process with talks on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border.

The Grand Master of the Orange Order has told a rally in Co Tyrone that the Ulster Unionist Party should withdraw from talks to rescue the Good Friday Agreement.

Orangemen have again been turned away from the blockades at Drumcree bridge.