The Office of the Attorney General yesterday backed Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald’s decision to take no action when she was told of the Garda legal team’s alleged strategy to discredit Maurice McCabe in May 2015.

There has been renewed calls for an Irish Passport office in Northern Ireland, as new figures show another big rise in applications.

The Government has declared it is demanding "special status" for Northern Ireland after Brexit.

Sinn Féin deputy Leader Mary Lou McDonald says the “realities of life” are behind a review of the party’s policy of only taking the average industrial wage.

Belfast City Council tonight elected an entrepreneur with a media empire in Belfast and New York as the new Lord Mayor.

A gunman has fired four shots at the door of a house where a family of five lives, in the Short Strand in East Belfast.

Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast Niall O Donnghaile has apologised over his refusal to present a British army cadet with an award.

Unionists have stepped up their demands for the Mayor of Belfast to apologise or resign for refusing to present an award to an Army cadet.

US teen star Justin Bieber revealed he has “pulled through” as he called the recent allegations surrounding him as “crap” at the 2011 MTV European Music Awards in Belfast.

Teenage pop superstar Justin Bieber will face the cameras - and his girlfriend - when he appears at this year's MTV Europe Music Awards just days after denying allegations he fathered a child in a backstage bathroom.

Sinn Féin MLA Alex Maskey has said the Ulster Volunteer Force launched a "coordinated attack" on the Short Strand after violence flared in south Belfast last night.

A man shot dead by an off-duty police officer in the North during a suspected filling-station robbery was named today.

Police appealed for calm today at a sectarian flashpoint area of east Belfast after a gang of youths defaced a memorial to two murdered men.

There was renewed sectarian strife in east Belfast last night as loyalist and nationalist youths clashed.