A police officer was seriously injured when a bomb exploded under his car in the North today.

Mitchel McLaughlin is standing down as the chairman of the Northern Assembly Finance and Personnel Committee as part of a reshuffle announced by Sinn Féin today.

A building society boss came under fire at the North's Assembly today for telling consumers they had to end their high-spending lifestyles.

Dissident republicans were tonight blamed for vandalising a car owned by leading Sinn Féin member and former IRA prisoner Bobby Storey.

A man fined 1p for refusing to put personal information on an election form today said the landmark court case made a mockery of the authorities.

UK laws to tackle potential international terrorist money laundering are to be extended to to the North, it was announced today.

Sinn Féin boycotting the North’s ministerial Executive would leave them adopting old unionist tactics linked to the Government’s collapse, the Assembly heard today.

The plight of around 900 Seagate workers losing their jobs will be debated in the Northern Assembly today.

The British government is coming under increasing pressure from the business community outside Northern Ireland for a more competitive corporation tax level, a Stormont Assembly Committee chairman claimed today.

Controversial water bills will be posted to homes in the North in four days time if unionists refuse to form a power-sharing government, it emerged tonight.

Negotiations continue in the North today, before a crucial decision on power-sharing.

Politicians in the North are to be given extra funds by Dublin and London if they are to revive devolved government, British Chancellor Gordon Brown revealed today.

Concerns are mounting in Belfast that Gordon Brown still has to grasp the need for a substantial peace dividend to bolster any new power sharing government in the North, Sinn Féin claimed today.

“THINGS fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” — well the fallout from the Belfast Assembly poll is not quite as bad as WB Yeats’s words suggest, but he was spot-on about the middle ground parties going south.

The DUP and Sinn Féin were making significant gains in the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections.

The Ulster Unionist Party has paid the price for its arrogant treatment of former members in the North’s Assembly Election, it was claimed tonight.

Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds, and Sinn Féin's policing spokesperson Gerry Kelly became the third and fourth Assembly members to be elected in the North's Assembly elections today, both capturing seats in North Belfast.

The North’s Assembly Election candidates will learn what the electorate has in store for them today as counting gets under way in 18 constituencies.

DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson has said any new devolved government with Sinn Féin is likely to be "a battle a day".

Independent republican candidates standing against Sinn Féin in the North's Assembly Elections will not be a flash in the pan, a leading Irish American sympathiser claimed today.

The British government was today urged to allow a new advisory forum on a Bill of Rights in the North the chance to set the standards for other nations.

More ambition is needed on an all-Ireland level to deal with the issues of waste, spatial planning, transport and education, it was claimed tonight.

The EU is obsessed with economic growth and increasing military might ahead of other issues like poverty and human rights, it was claimed today.

Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair were today urged to spell out publicly before the November deadline for devolution in the North what they will do if it is missed.

A Derry medical packaging company today sacked more than a quarter of its workforce today amid unofficial industrial action.

Northern Ireland Assembly members will stage their first debate today since Stormont was recalled for business after three and a half years.

Politicians meeting tomorrow to revive power-sharing in Northern Ireland could have their last chance for 20 years, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.

Sinn Féin’s National Chairman has said that the announcement that the Progressive Unionist leader is to join the UUP’s assembly group in Stormont needs to be examined.

Sinn Féin tonight branded the Ulster Unionist Party as hypocrites for recruiting the loyalist Progressive Unionist Party to join its Assembly grouping at Stormont.

The Democratic Unionist Party was today accused of being more fixated on securing peerages than tackling real issues affecting their Assembly constituents.

The SDLP’s call for an all-Ireland police intelligence agency was described today as the most blatant attempt to politicise policing.

Northern Secretary Peter Hain today faced demands to plough million of pounds in peace process savings into frontline public services in the province.

SINN FÉIN yesterday outlined a new policy direction on enterprise that would see corporation tax being increased from 12% to 17.5%, an all-Ireland approach to job creation, and the euro becoming the operable currency north and south.

Sinn Féin is holding a cross-border conference in Monaghan today to mark the exact founding of the party one hundred years ago.

Suspended Sinn Féin mayor Francie Molloy will be given a fair hearing when he appears before the party’s disciplinary committee, it was claimed today.

Peter Hain should quit the British government over comments in the United States advocating an all-Ireland economy, the Rev Ian Paisley said today.

More than 100 textile job losses were announced today by two firms in the North.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams tonight looked set to drop plans to fly to New York this week for a fundraising dinner for his party after the US government placed restrictions on his visa.

Senior members of the Sinn Féin leadership are fanning out across the country and beyond today to push home the significance of the IRA's decommissioning move.

Unrepentant Orange Order leaders tonight continued to shrug off blame for the days and nights of violence which engulfed Belfast after a contentious parade at the weekend.

Unionists and nationalists have said former British Prime Minister Edward Heath will not be remembered fondly by the people of Northern Ireland.

A man was killed today by an explosion at a water treatment plant which propelled a storage tank through a roof and 200ft in the air.

The home of Gerry Adams and others belonging to Sinn Féin members in west Belfast were targeted in ball bearing attacks, the party claimed today.

Sinn Féin continued the auction today of part of a bugging device which it claims MI5 planted in its Belfast headquarters – despite it being thrown off eBay.