Northern Assembly member Ian Paisley Jnr was fined £5,000 (€5,862) today for refusing to reveal the name of a confidential source.

Former DUP leader Ian Paisley has taken the Northern political establishment by surprise today by saying he might contest the next British general election.

FOR a brief moment last year it seemed Ian Paisley would defy Enoch Powell’s dictum that all political careers end in failure. At the grand old age of 81, he was at the height of his powers with prime ministers and presidents flattering him at every turn.

Members of the IRA can escape criminal charges against them because it is not a specified paramilitary organisation, it was claimed today.