Unionists have demanded answers after an Irish Tricolour was run up the main flagpole of Parliament Buildings at Stormont.

A former fighter pilot tries to adjust to his new life at the controls of a drone operating remotely from Las Vegas.

A legal challenge is likely if Northern Ireland is left as the only part of the UK without marriage rights for same-sex couples, Amnesty International has warned.

New world number one golfer Rory McIlroy should be followed round the globe by Stormont officials to help tap into any tourism potential, according to a politician.

SAOIRSE RONAN has come a long way since her first movie ‘I Could Never be Your Woman’ starring Michele Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd.

In Soviet-occupied Poland, officer Janusz (Jim Sturgess) is falsely incriminated as a foreign spy and sent to a Russian gulag in Siberia surrounded by miles of snow.

The number of police officers recruited in the North will be low for the next eight years, it was claimed today.

SCREEN star Brendan Gleeson and his two actor sons, Domhnall and Brian, have been shortlisted in separate categories in the Irish Film and TelevisionAwards.

Screen star Brendan Gleeson and his two actor sons, Domhnall and Brian, have been shortlisted in separate categories in the Irish Film and Television Awards.

The story behind this film is as interesting and intriguing as the film itself in that it is based on what purports to be the ‘true’ account of a remarkable WW2 escape.

A British Army major who escaped a dissident republican murder bid when a booby trap bomb fell off his car without detonating is lucky to be alive, police said today.

A booby trap bomb was found under a soldier’s car in the North today.

Dissident republicans were blamed for a car bomb attack at a court in the North last night.

A long-standing religious imbalance within the North's Civil Service (NICS) has been effectively reversed following a 10% rise in the proportion of Catholic employees in just over a decade, new figures confirmed today.

A DUP assembly member has criticised the number of visits to the North by President Mary McAleese.

Senior civil servants in the North who were paid £1m (€1.65m) in bonuses were today accused of putting wage demands ahead of the concept of public service.

The North's Policing Board has approved the use of Taser stun-guns despite strong opposition from the SDLP and Sinn Féin.

The police must be given the extra resources they need to take the fight to dissident republicans, the DUP insisted today.

First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness met officials from leading banks for talks today as the political leaders came under pressure to tackle growing economic problems.

Director Peter Weir’s 'Picnic at Hanging Rock Deluxe Edition' (Second Sight, €27.99) is a hauntingly chilling, yet strangely beautiful film.

Peter Weir’s first film, 'The Car That Ate Paris' (Second Sight, €24.99) also makes its DVD debut.

Jeffrey Donaldson has waited a long time for ministerial office.

A former Sinn Féin mayor of Derry is to join the party’s first three Assembly representatives on the Northern Ireland Policing Board.

The Democratic Unionist Party has unveiled its ministerial team for the new power-sharing Executive in the North.

Senior figures in the Ulster Unionists are looking at plans for a corporate leadership of the party in the wake of David Trimble’s resignation, it was claimed today.

Ulster Unionists were today contemplating life without David Trimble as leader.

The Ulster Unionist vote will hold its own in next week’s general and local elections in Northern Ireland, one of the party’s candidate’s said tonight.

A former MP today gave the Democratic Unionists a clear run in a bid to wrest away a safe Ulster Unionist seat in the general election.

US Presidential candidate John Kerry needs to get real about the political process in Northern Ireland, he was told today.

Hollywood is gearing up for the Academy Awards with a glittering night predicted for The Return of the King.

Hollywood is gearing up for tomorrow night’s Academy Awards with a glittering night predicted for The Return of the King.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King triumphed at the Baftas as it took home best film.

The stars are coming out tonight for this year’s Baftas.

THE Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final chapter in Peter Jackson’s majestic fantasy trilogy, led the Academy Awards race yesterday with 11 nominations, including best picture and director.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final chapter in Peter Jackson’s majestic fantasy trilogy, led the Academy Awards race today with 11 nominations, including best picture and director.

Nominations for this year's BAFTA film awards

The Magdalene Sisters, the film which depicted life in the laundries run by the Magdalene nuns, has earned four nominations in this year’s London Film Critics’ Circle Awards.

The Academy Awards are shaping up as a something of a horse race.

Hollywood’s annual award season started today as the Golden Globe nominations were announced.

With all 108 seats filled in the Northern Ireland Assembly the party shares are:

The cult novels of Patrick O'Brian have always been treated as things to be highly protected by their millions of fans; already they are complaining that Weir has taken too many liberties in his epic film.

Sinn Féin is poised to take at least five extra seats in next week’s Northern Ireland Assembly election, the party predicted tonight.