BRITAIN’S House of Commons meets this week to debate the bill which will — as from March 2019 — take the country out of the European Union. 

He was responding to Peter Hain's expected suggestion that Northern Ireland should be part of the same customs union and single market as the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.

Northern Ireland should be part of the same customs union and single market as the Republic after Brexit, a former Secretary of State is expected to say later.

A former Northern Ireland Secretary says he is worried the peace process could unravel, as the Brexit process gets underway.

JUSTICE Heather Hallett reviewed a Government assurance scheme for fugitive republicans linked to almost 300 murders.

IT’S Tuesday of this week and I’m driving my child home thinking there’s a strange silence about Gerry Adams’s arrest and I want to break it but I don’t know how.

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.

Yesterday, as the hope that we on these islands might live together without the ghosts of history colouring our every interaction came closer to being a vibrant reality, two vignettes pointed to the complexity of our shared history.

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

Calls for Bloody Sunday soldiers to be granted amnesty on the back of a deal for IRA on-the-runs are inevitable and predictable, a senior Northern Ireland politician has said.

Calls for Bloody Sunday soldiers to be granted amnesty on the back of a deal for IRA on-the-runs are inevitable and predictable, a senior politician in the North has said.

Former secretary of state for Northern Ireland Peter Hain has said it is risible for key politicians to claim they had no knowledge so-called comfort letters were sent to IRA on-the-runs.

Nelson Mandela, the pioneering president who helped to end apartheid in South Africa, has died at the age of 95.

A man convicted of the IRA Shankill bombing is being questioned today in connection with the shooting of a teenager in Belfast on Tuesday night.

The Irish Government should trawl its documents archive to support the family of a solicitor murdered by Northern Ireland loyalists with state support, it was claimed.

A report into the loyalist murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane will be published later today.

Irish citizen and blogger Paul Staines is feared by top UK politicians. And he’s planning to move to Ireland full-time, he tells Richard Fitzpatrick

Northern Ireland Attorney General John Larkin twice rejected attempts to settle his High Court action against Peter Hain before they agreed to halt the proceedings in advance of a full hearing, the former Secretary of State has claimed.

A contempt of court case taken against British Labour MP Peter Hain over criticisms he made of a judge in the North will not proceed, the High Court in Belfast ruled today.

Former Northern Ireland Secretary of State Peter Hain is the latest name to be added to the phone hacking scandal.

PRAYERS will be said across churches in Wales tomorrow for the loved ones of the four victims who perished in the Gleision colliery disaster.

The deaths of four miners trapped in a flooded mine were tonight described as a “stab through the heart” of a community hoping they could be rescued alive.

Voting opens in Labour’s shadow cabinet elections today, with 49 MPs battling for a place in Ed Miliband’s top team.

New Labour leader Ed Miliband has given his strongest signal yet that he would put up taxes in order to protect public services from spending cuts.

Labour leader Ed Miliband left the door open for his elder brother David to return to the party’s front line today after the former foreign secretary dramatically announced he was quitting the shadow cabinet.

A Sinn Féin Minister is among the speakers at a meeting taking place on the fringes of the British Labour Party conference this evening.

Tory leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg held face-to-face talks tonight as they continued their attempts to thrash out a power-sharing deal.

Liberal Democrat MPs today endorsed leader Nick Clegg’s decision to enter talks with the Conservatives over possible co-operation in forming a new government.

Even though Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has given his blessing to David Cameron to seek to try and form a government in the UK, the two parties are unlikely to strike a deal.

David Cameron was today offered the keys to 10 Downing Street, after Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said that the Conservatives had the “first right” to seek to form a government in Britain’s first hung Parliament since 1974.

David Cameron is “happy to talk” with other parties to ensure Britain gets a “strong and stable” Conservative-led British government, a senior Tory said today.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was fighting to keep Labour in power today by tempting the Liberal Democrats into a coalition government as Britain seemed set for a hung parliament.

Party leaders were engaged in frenzied last-ditch campaigning today with just 24 hours to go until the British general election.

SENIOR Labour figures were last night at odds over calls for the party’s supporters to vote tactically in order to keep the Tories out of power.

BRITISH far-right leader Nick Griffin accused the BBC yesterday of mounting a “lynch mob” against him in a charged appearance on a TV political panel show, and called for it to be re-recorded.

The BBC defended the appearance of BNP leader Nick Griffin on a 'Question Time' in which the BNP leader gave a twitchy performance and described homosexuals as “creepy”.

The appointment of an interim Victims’ Commissioner for Northern Ireland was not lawful, the Court of Appeal ruled today.

A return to terrorism in the North will never be tolerated, British and Irish politicians vowed today.

Tánaiste and Enterprise Minister Mary Coughlan will discuss the economy with Irish and British politicians in Co Donegal tomorrow.

A major security operation is moving into place to protect dozens of senior British and Irish politicians meeting at a lakeside hotel in Co Donegal next week.

Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward today hailed the historic Stormont justice deal as a “new chapter” for the country.

The group considering how to deal with the legacy of the North's Troubles will today reveal their plans to British and Irish politicians behind closed doors.

History was made today at a meeting of British-Irish body when it was attended by unionist politicians for the first time.

A forum of politicians is to call on the British government to release secret files on the Real IRA suspects behind the Omagh bombing.