NORTHERN IRELAND’S players have been stung by reaction to their defeat against Serbia on Friday and striker Warren Feeney wants his team to respond with a big performance in their next Euro 2012 qualifier in Estonia.

Under-pressure DUP leader Peter Robinson resumed his role as the North’s First Minister tonight after saying he had been cleared of breaching his code of office over the financial scandal surrounding his wife, Iris.

The Conservative Party does not fear becoming mired in sectarian divisions in the North by fighting elections in the region, the UK's Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said today.

The British government insulted MPs trying to scrutinise a key Omagh bomb report when it denied full access, an influential House of Commons committee said today.

Irish exports will be the focus of Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s trade mission in New York today.

NORTHERN IRELAND boss Nigel Worthington has warned the Irish Football Association they must take a more “professional” approach to discussions over his new contract.

NORTHERN IRELAND winger Keith Gillespie has apologised for being involved in a punch-up with a team-mate on a flight home from Iceland.

Northern Ireland Minister Paul Goggins warned today of a growing problem of people-trafficking there.

NORTHERN IRELAND striker David Healy is adamant he will be fit to face Germany to mark the Irish FA’s 125th anniversary in June.

NORTHERN IRELAND Chief Constable Hugh Orde yesterday called for a review of parades legislation.

GREG DYKE was effectively sacked as BBC director-general in the wake of the Hutton Report, he revealed yesterday.

Ultimately no original documents were released at all. Instead, after more than a year of requests, the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, John Reid, forwarded a 10-page letter which included a number of selective quotes from intelligence reports but no original documents whatsoever.

NORTHERN IRELAND’S Gerard Greene continued his impressive form to race into a healthy 6-2 lead over countryman Joe Swail in the opening round of the Travis Perkins UK Championship in York yesterday.

The IRA was under renewed pressure tonight to end its campaign of violence as US President George W Bush arrived in Northern Ireland to urge politicians and paramilitaries to go the extra mile for peace.

NORTHERN IRELAND’S new chief constable yesterday vowed to crack down on the paramilitary chiefs who have orchestrated a series of unsolved sectarian murders.

NORTHERN IRELAND'S Graeme McDowell set a new course record to lead in the first round of the Volvo Scandinavian Masters here in Stockholm but it was Colin Montgomerie's former caddie Alastair McLean who had the last laugh.

Sinn Fein MPs should go into the House of Commons chamber instead of just using offices they will be allocated after a controversial vote at Westminster this week, Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid said today.

Northern Ireland Minister Adam Ingram is among three candidates likely to be considered to take over as Northern Ireland Secretary from Peter Mandelson.