It was far from de Valera’s comely lasses dancing at the crossroads proportions, but perhaps given the notorious difficulties at the centre of the issue a tango on the border will more than suffice.

One constituency remained undeclared as the Northern Ireland Assembly reached its conclusion.

Labour Seanad candidate Mairia Cahill has said she will campaign for rape victims and the need for support services if she wins an upcoming by-election in the Seanad.

The DUP has retained its position as the largest party in the North but the UUP is arguably celebrating harder after landing two surprise wins in the general election.

The DUP has retained its position as the largest party in the North, but the UUP is arguably celebrating harder after landing two surprise wins in the General Election.

The Democratic Unionists are this morning wondering if the post-election shakedown will hand them added influence at Westminster after a Northern Ireland poll that produced a couple of surprises.

A school in the North will not be used as a polling station in the UK General Election after “hostile” loyalist protests during voting last year.

President Michael D Higgins has hailed the transformation of relations between Britain and Ireland, from doubt to trust and mutual respect. In a historic address to Britain’s Houses of Parliament — the first time Ireland’s head of state has been given the honour — Mr Higgins said the two countries now have a closeness that once seemed unachievable.

President Michael D Higgins has hailed the transformation of relations between Britain and Ireland, from a period of doubt to trust and mutual respect.

Detectives are treating the death of an East Timorese man in a suspected stabbing incident in Dungannon as murder.

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness is to make a keynote speech on British/Irish relations in London tonight.

BEING saddled with the slogan “West Brits Out” was not the best start to Martin McGuinness’s presidential push.

DAVID NORRIS scrambled to rebuild the wreckage of his presidential bid last night.

The Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has said that if Sinn Féin decides to contest the Presidency, the candidate will not run on a party ticket.

Sinn Féin has delivered a message to Government saying the Irish people have had enough of cuts.

The Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness has said he has not even considered a run for the Aras.

Sinn Féin Deputy Pearse Doherty has joined calls for his party to put forward a candidate in the forthcoming presidential election.

AN official date has been set for the presidential election as debate over candidates in the race for the Áras continues.

A former IRA man who attempted to murder a soldier in a 1981 ambush has been jailed for 20 years.

CONSIDERING Billy Twomey’s wealth of talent, it is a surprise to find he has never contested a World Cup final.

Air accident investigators have arrived at the scene of a helicopter crash that killed three people who were flying from the North to England, police confirmed tonight.

A court challenge against the election of Sinn Féin MP Michelle Gildernew in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency has been rejected.

The North’s bid to avoid more than £100m (€117.5m) in European fines is to be taken to Europe’s highest court.

The new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) faced his first resignation today after he was accused of snubbing gaelic games.

EVERY field in Northern Ireland is being re-mapped after mistakes in agricultural subsidy claims have landed it with a bill from Brussels for up to £100m.

Unionists in the North are this morning set to begin a legal bid to unseat a Sinn Féin MP.

BRUCELLOSIS in cattle has recently re-emerged in the Keady area of Co Armagh, close to the Monaghan border.

THE role of agricultural shows has been praised by Government ministers north and south, Brendan Smith and Michelle Gildernew.

A BRUCELLOSIS flare-up in Northern Ireland may delay the relaxation of disease eradication rules expected to follow the official brucellosis-free status approved for Ireland a year ago.

A judicial challenge has been launched after Sinn Féin took the Fermanagh and South Tyrone Westminster seat by four votes, a courts spokeswoman confirmed today.

FARMERS in the North have imported cattle from Germany, which only weeks ago confirmed its first case of bluetongue this year.

WHILE Westminster minds are focused on the formation of a new UK government, politicians in the North are today wondering if the election results could destabilise their own coalition administration.

A vote for hope over fear was how the woman who toppled Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson in East Belfast described her triumph.

The future of Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson was in doubt today after the sensational General Election defeat of the First Minister of the powersharing executive at Stormont.

The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson sensationally lost his Westminster seat for east Belfast today.

NORTHERN Ireland voters could be kingmakers in a hung parliament, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) claimed last night in a final appeal for support.

AUJESZKY’S DISEASE has been practically eliminated from Ireland following two national testing phases, Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith has disclosed.

The SDLP today rejected overtures from Sinn Féin to form a nationalist electoral pact in marginal constituencies in the North.

THE European Commission is to launch an animal health law next year, a conference was told in Ballyconnell, Co Cavan.

David Cameron’s electoral project in the North was under renewed pressure tonight after the Conservative Party failed to come good on a pledge to run in every constituency in the region.

THE agriculture ministers from the south and the North have agreed an All-Island Animal Health and Welfare Strategy.

Politicians in the North have met with representatives from Quinn Insurance group today to discuss the future of operations at the insurance company.

SHEEP electronic identification and the progress being made north and south on legislation in the areas of animal health and welfare were discussed at the latest North/South ministerial council in Dublin.

THE Army will today erect a bailey bridge across the Grand Canal in Athy, Co Kildare, to facilitate pedestrian access to the site of the three-day National Ploughing Championships, which begin tomorrow.