David Trimble became the biggest name casualty of the British general election tonight as his Ulster Unionist Party slumped.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was today comfortably elected in the British parliamentary elections in the North.

Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley has claimed that all of the Ulster Unionist Party’s Westminster seats are vulnerable in the upcoming British general election.

Northern Ireland faces considerable challenges in the years ahead from European Union enlargement, the Democratic Unionist’s new European Parliament candidate claimed today.

A Northern Ireland MP who switched parties came under more pressure today to resign his Westminster seat and seek a new mandate from voters.

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

MORE than 1,000 pupils were sent home from school yesterday after the latest in a wave of attacks in the North.

DAVID TRIMBLE launched moves last night to have his Ulster Unionist Party president, the Rev Martin Smyth, removed from the post after he joined two other hardline MPs in resigning the party whip in parliament.

Aer Lingus has removed rebel and republican songs from its in-flight entertainment on trans-Atlantic flight after complaints from UUP member Roy Beggs.

Reports that two Omagh bombing suspects are being granted legal aid to fight a civil action against them were today condemned in the British House of Commons as “absolutely outrageous”.

A weekend attack on an SDLP Assembly member was as a ‘‘cowardly attempt to undermine democracy’’ and force a political representative out of his home, it was claimed today.