The DUP and Sinn Fein are at loggerheads over who to blame for public spending cuts in the North

No-one will be able to match Martin McGuinness as deputy First Minister Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, has said.

A senior Democratic Unionist has revealed that four family members run boilers under the controversial green energy scheme at the centre of Stormont's powersharing crisis.

An ex-special adviser to former Northern Ireland first minister Arlene Foster has resigned from his role at Stormont.

An election in the North loomed closer last night after Sinn Féin reaffirmed its intention not to put forward a candidate for the position of deputy first minister when the Stormont Assembly reconvenes today.

Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald has admitted her party is in “transition” as the prospect of a leadership change on both sides of the border grows nearer due to the likely retirement of Martin McGuinness from frontline politics.

The Irish and British governments have conceded an election is increasingly likely as Stormont’s power-sharing administration heads for collapse.

The UK government has appealed to Northern Ireland’s political leaders to step back from the brink of the current political crisis.

Sinn Féin has warned a collapse of the powersharing institutions at Stormont is an option if First Minister Arlene Foster refuses to stand down to allow a probe into her handling of a botched green energy scheme.

Stormont’s Finance Minister has insisted he has no questions to answer over a party colleague’s controversial contact with a witness to an inquiry examining Northern Ireland’s biggest property deal.

The prospect of a cross-border Nama inquiry should not be completely ruled out, according to Stormont's finance minister.

Sinn Féin finance spokesman Pearse Doherty insists a party colleague who was suspended over claims he was coaching another witness in the North’s Nama loans inquiry, acted alone throughout the controversy.

A Stormont scrutiny committee has called on the North's Finance Minister to stand aside pending the outcome of a probe into a party colleague's backchannel contact with an inquiry witness.

Stormont's Finance Minister has insisted he knew nothing of a party colleague's controversial contact with a witness to an inquiry into the North's largest ever property deal.

Finance ministers from the UK's three devolved administrations are meeting today to discuss the implications of the vote to leave the European Union.

Lawyers in the North were warned not to divulge details about a billion-euro property controversy minutes before they appeared before a Stormont scrutiny committee, MLAs have heard.

Stormont’s Finance Committee wants to call Mick Wallace and NAMA officials to appear before public hearings next week.

Relations of those who died on the Titanic have gathered in the city where the doomed liner was built to commemorate the anniversary of the sinking.

The first Sinn Féin mayor of Belfast to take part in an Armistice Day commemoration has described the decision to attend as the hardest of his political career.

Veteran singer Van Morrison said he was “honoured and delighted” to have been granted the freedom of his native Belfast as it was announced he will play a free concert in the city to mark the accolade.

The violent expression of indignation by loyalists and Orange Order members at the sight of the Lord Mayor of Belfast Máirtín Ó Muilleoir visiting the Shankill Road is nothing more than a grotesque display of raw sectarianism.

Belfast City Council tonight elected an entrepreneur with a media empire in Belfast and New York as the new Lord Mayor.

The Andersonstown News is to cease publication of one of its twice-weekly editions with the loss of nine jobs.

JOBS are to go at the new Daily Ireland newspaper, its owners confirmed yesterday.

MICHAEL McDowell is being sued by the new Belfast-based newspaper he has described as a “Provo front.”

A NEW nationalist daily newspaper is being planned for Northern Ireland, it was confirmed yesterday.