Political leaders in the North face a “deal or no deal” ultimatum as they enter the final day of negotiations on outstanding disputes.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan have laid wreaths at solemn Remembrance Sunday events in the North.

The UK Government has been urged by unionists and loyalists in the to set up a commission of inquiry to examine a parading dispute that has resulted in the restriction of a contentious Orange Order parade in Belfast.

Gerry Adams will undergo a fourth day of questioning by detectives over the 1972 murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville.

The Queen has said that Britain and Ireland shall “no longer allow our past to ensnare our future” at a historic state banquet in honour of President Michael D Higgins.

A man has been arrested by detectives investigating a gun attack on police vehicles in north Belfast.

A military gun was used to spray police vehicles with bullets in the North, a senior officer said.

The Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is calling for an all-party, cross-community response to the flag protests and sectarian rioting in the North.

Police used water cannons as officers were injured during sectarian clashes between loyalists and republicans in east Belfast today.

The Tánaiste Eamonn Gilmore will join senior politicians from Belfast and London next week to discuss the Union flag protests.