The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Tom Ekin, today expressed his wish that there could be inclusive St Patrick’s Day celebrations in the city centre next year, backed by the council.

The Lord Mayor of Belfast today urged the public to defy bombers who placed an incendiary device in a city centre shop.

Sinn Féin is trying to secure a November Assembly election in Northern Ireland in the current round of talks, a party negotiator confirmed today.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams were today expected to hold another meeting as efforts to restore Northern Ireland’s Assembly continued.

The man accused of being the British Army’s most prized spy at the heart of the IRA had been repeatedly warned by police in Belfast that his life is in danger, he claimed today.

Judgment was reserved today in the High Court case of three Ulster Unionist MPs who are appealing against their suspension from the party.

ROGUE elements in the security forces were involved in a deadly plot with loyalist paramilitaries to carry out a series of sectarian murders in the North, the Stevens Report confirmed yesterday.

Sinn Féin has said there had to be nothing less than a full international judicial inquiry after the release of John Stevens' explosive report into security forces' collusion with loyalist paramilitaries in the North.

HOPES were raised last night of a breakthrough in the stalled Northern Ireland peace process, when the IRA outlined its future intentions to the Irish and British Governments.

The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Sinn Fein’s Alex Maskey, has infuriated unionists by announcing he's to place an Irish tri-colour in his office at city hall later today.

THE extremes on both sides of the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland "desperately want to kill the peace process and put themselves back centre-stage in dominating the politics

The new Lord Mayor of Belfast has said that he wants to calm the present tensions that exist in the city.

The SDLP has welcomed the Alliance Party's decision to back Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey for Lord Mayor of Belfast and announced it too would be backing him.

The Lord Mayor of Belfast today called for water cannon to be deployed in the north of the city following another weekend of vicious sectarian rioting.

The RUC Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan says last night’s violence in

The Alliance party in the North has blocked the election of Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey as the party's first Lord Mayor of Belfast.

More and more disillusioned Ulster Unionists will defect from the party if David Trimble fails to quit as leader, the Rev Ian Paisley claimed tonight.