The recalling of the Northern Assembly next month will provide the North’s politicians with a chance to build trust, a delegation from the Democratic Unionists will tell a body of TDs and MPs from Ireland and Britain today.

A furious row has broken out in the North over comments made by the SDLP MP Eddie McGrady, apparently supporting the idea of recalling the assembly without power-sharing.

Animal welfare officers believe they may have broken up a puppy farm in the North during a joint operation with the police.

Gunmen who wounded four people in an early morning shooting in a seaside town in Northern Ireland carried out a reckless attack with little regard for local people, it was claimed today.

The British and Irish Governments were today urged to insist that Sinn Féin backs policing in Northern Ireland regardless what the next IRA statement says.

THE onward march of Sinn Féin has slowed to a stroll. That is a clear conclusion which can be drawn from the results of the Westminster elections held in Northern Ireland this day last week.

The British government must produce a decommissioning programme for the Sellafield nuclear plant which will result in its swift closure, the SDLP said today.

Sinn Féin was accused today of thinking republicans were above the law and didn’t have to live by the same rules as everyone else.

A war of words erupted between nationalists in the North today after an SDLP representative raised the possibility of restoring devolved government without Sinn Féin involvement.

THERE were trebles for jockey John Thomas McNamara and trainer Enda Bolger at a successful Limerick Harriers Hunt Point-to-Point at Lemonfield yesterday.

An Australian police radio operator accused of ignoring a report of a woman’s scream the night British backpacker Caroline Stuttle was killed has been sacked, an official said today.

Dissident republicans are being blamed for a gun attack on police in Northern Ireland.

Those who attack young Catholic police recruits in Northern Ireland are attempting to prevent the establishment of a force acceptable to the entire community, it was claimed today.

Ronnie Flanagan is to stay on as Northern Ireland chief constable for an extra month.

The Ulster Unionist Party was tonight urged to positively sell the Good Friday Agreement to its community in a bid to stop the advances made by hardliners.

A terrorist strike on the Sellafield nuclear plant could cause a catastrophe far worse than the Chernobyl disaster, the SDLP annual conference heard today.

Stormont Finance Minister Mark Durkan was today poised to announce his candidacy for the leadership of the SDLP, according to party sources.

Republicans were tonight accused of orchestrating a massive vote fraud and threatening nationalist voters as a new cheating row marked the election campaign in Northern Ireland.

A weekend attack on an SDLP Assembly member was as a ‘‘cowardly attempt to undermine democracy’’ and force a political representative out of his home, it was claimed today.