Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland has been summoned to appear before his Stormont scrutiny committee following allegations of political interference in the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.

The lakeland town of Enniskillen in the North close to the G8 summit is to receive a makeover worth more than a quarter of a million euro.

Nationalists and unionists exchanged allegations of sectarianism across the Stormont chamber as a bid to unseat Minister Nelson McCausland over a parades dispute was voted down.

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First-time house buyers will be boosted by a decision by the government in the North to put an extra £10m towards the co-ownership scheme, Finance Minister Sammy Wilson announced today.

ULSTER GAA scored a windfall victory yesterday with news they will receive £61.4million (€71,458,841) in public funding toward the reconstruction of Casement Park.

An Northern Ireland Assembly bid to protect the Irish language failed tonight.

St Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band from Dublin have won the overall champions prize at the world championships in Scotland, it was revealed today.

A CELEBRATION cascaded through the hard man territory of Thomond Park last night as more than 15,000 people gathered for the opening of Special Olympics Ireland.

UNIONISTS need to mark the upcoming centenary of the 1916 rebellion in a respectful way, the Taoiseach yesterday insisted.

Funding at GAA clubs in the North could be withdrawn if they adopt the names of dead paramilitaries, it emerged today.

Government officials in the North are to compile an urgent report on the death of a pensioner who was hit by a motorbike at the Armoy road races in Co Antrim, it emerged today.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams today condemned last night's rioting in Belfast's Ardoyne area and said the Orange Order and republican politicians should hold talks on the small number of parades which are still linked to tension in the North.

Nearly 2,000 people have been arrested for driving while under the influence of drink or drugs in the North during the first six months of the year.

Thefts from vehicles in the North have shot up by over 5% in the past year and Criminal Justice Minister Paul Goggins today launched a campaign to try to reverse the trend.

The rift at the heart of the North's Government appeared to deepen today when the DUP accused Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams of withholding information on the whereabouts of the "Disappeared" victims of the Troubles.

A new multi-agency public protection team has been set up in the North to manage the most dangerous sexual and violent offenders after they have been released from prison, it was announced today.

Rock band Guns N’ Roses cancelled a US performance this week after being told by state officials that the band could not drink on stage.

Almost 900 knives were handed in at council sites during Northern Ireland’s three-week amnesty, police figures revealed today.

BELFAST’S top police commander last night hit back at unionists who have quit community partnerships over the street violence raging across the city.

Belfast’s top police commander tonight hit back at unionists who have quit community partnerships over the street violence raging across the city.

There was fresh trouble in Belfast tonight as police pledged to get tough with loyalist demonstrators who have caused major disruption for days.

Police and civilians were injured as loyalist gunmen opened fire during ferocious rioting on the streets of Belfast today.

The PSNI has appealed for calm at a contentious Orange Order parade in Belfast tomorrow.

School children are being recruited by text message to riot on the streets of Belfast, security chiefs said tonight.

Two men arrested in Belfast in connection with separate murders linked to a bitter loyalist feud were tonight released without charge.

Two men were arrested in Belfast today for questioning about separate murders linked to the bitter loyalist feud.

Loyalist paramilitary killers locked in a deadly feud are switching their sights to innocent victims because police have disrupted assassination attempts, a top Belfast officer said tonight.

Police in Belfast were today investigating the possibility that an overnight murder attempt at a house in the city may have been part of a bitter loyalist paramilitary feud.

The SDLP is urging the British government to review the UVF ceasefire following the murder of two men in Belfast in the past two weeks.

A man murdered in Belfast as part of a loyalist feud was not a member of one of the organisations involved in the power struggle, it was claimed tonight.

Police tonight accused dissident republicans of trying to kill police officers during rioting in North Belfast last night.

Detectives tonight named a man murdered by a gang as part of a loyalist feud.

A massive protest march in Belfast, which was held after the Orange Order postponed today’s contentious parade, passed off peacefully.

The Orange Order today warned it is determined to march along its route in west Belfast before the autumn after today’s contentious parade was postponed.

An incendiary device was found in a shopping centre today.

THE DUP’s Cllr Nelson McCausland is a leading member of the Orange Order who thinks his ‘Romanist’ neighbours aren’t even Christian. He has said so openly.

British army bomb experts tonight dealt with a firebomb found in a store in Newry, Co Down.

Belfast has finally woken up to the reality that the Titanic story, and its role as the birthplace of the ill fated liner, is a tourist grabber, a city councillor said today.

A Belfast police chief who headed the security operation surrounding a bitterly-contested Orange march that ended in violence today hit back in the face of rising Nationalist fury.

A controversial Orange parade in the North today passed off peacefully on its way to the annual Twelfth of July demonstrations.

Thousands of members of the Orange Order are parading today as the North's marching season reaches its peak.

The bitter feud between rival loyalist terror groups in Belfast is over, it has been claimed.

The Democratic Unionist Party has criticised the North’s Human Rights Commission for recommending that the Irish language be given official status.