A woman stabbed to death in Co Tyrone was today named as Luisa Cabral Pereira Silva.

Police in the North have come under attack from republican rioters for the fourth night in succession.

An elderly DUP councillor whose Co Tyrone property was set on fire blamed sectarian arsonists today.

The leading contenders in a high profile by-election in the North remained in positive mood tonight as initial signs indicated their votes were holding up.

The police must be given the extra resources they need to take the fight to dissident republicans, the DUP insisted today.

The DUP will support the British government’s bid to push the 42-day detention bill through the House of Lords in the UK.

A 44-year-old lorry driver has been arrested over the bus crash in Co Tyrone which has left one teenage girl dead and seven others injured. One of the girls in hospital is critically injured.

The replacement of a photographic tribute to the 11 victims of the IRA’s Enniskillen Remembrance Sunday bombing in the town’s fire station provoked fury today.

A policeman shot in the arm as he sat in heavy traffic in the North is stable in hospital tonight.

The murder of a man nine days ago has cast more doubt over Sinn Féin's suitability to be in government, it was claimed today.

Proposals to speed up votes in the Assembly at Stormont are being examined further this week.

Disgraced Gaelic football star Gerard Cavlan will never play for Tyrone again, it was claimed tonight.

Northern Ireland MEP Jim Allister tonight embarked on a political career outside the Democratic Unionists after he quit the Rev Ian Paisley’s party over its power sharing pact with Sinn Féin.

The British government will devolve powers over policing and justice to the Northern Assembly by 2008 even if there is no agreement from unionists, the Ulster Unionist Party leader said today.

Sinn Féin must agree to the dismantling of IRA structures and return the money stolen in the Northern Bank robbery two years ago if they are to convince unionists to share power, a Democratic Unionist (DUP) MP has warned.

Moves by Sinn Féin leaders to urge their members to support the Police Service of Northern Ireland were tonight hailed as potentially historic on both sides of the Irish Sea.

Peter Hain was today challenged to confirm whether or not a deal had been struck with Gerry Adams to allow exiled paramilitaries back to the North in return for Sinn Féin's endorsement of the police force.

Northern Ireland cannot afford a postponement of Assembly Elections next March, the leader of the Irish Republic’s Green Party Trevor Sargent insisted today.

Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist party held a day-long private strategy meeting today in a bid to quell signs of discontent in the ranks.

Intimidation is forcing those with knowledge of the IRA’s abduction and murder of a Northern teenager to keep quiet, the Democratic Unionist Party leader said today.

The family of a teenager abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA hoped their meeting with Ian Paisley today would help secure the return of his body and those of the rest of the North's disappeared.

The Democratic Unionists (DUP) will hold out for the right deal instead of a rushed one, a senior member of the party insisted today.