A new power-sharing executive will be formed in Northern Ireland after an independent Assembly member agreed to fill the contentious justice ministry. East Derry MLA Claire Sugden has been unveiled as the agreed Democratic Unionist and Sinn Féin candidate.

Northern Ireland’s new national sports stadium will be part of a £1bn (€1.42bn) development planned for the site of the old Maze Prison, it emerged today.

An Irish media group today agreed not to call its planned newspaper Ireland Today.

A new nationalist daily newspaper is being planned for Northern Ireland, it was confirmed today.

A campaign to turn the notorious H-Blocks into a permanent monument to the 30 years of bitter conflict stepped up a gear today with the staging of a major conference.