A Sinn Féin minister in the Stormont Executive was tonight facing a probe into whether he breached his ministerial code by consulting with the IRA over the murder of a Northern Ireland man.

The Sinn Féin spokesperson on natural resources, Martin Ferris TD, has today called on Shell to clarify whether or not it intends to proceed with its legal action against the Rossport Five.

NORTHERN Ireland's police chief, Sir Hugh Orde, will meet Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and senior ministers in Dublin tomorrow to discuss allegations about republican and British spy rings.

Sinn Féin MP Conor Murphy has launched an attack on the PSNI's Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), accusing it of unfairly implicating one of his constituents in criminal activity.

FIANNA FÁIL will not enter coalition with Sinn Féin after the next election, even if the IRA fulfils its pledge to decommission, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said.

Brian Cowen has refused to comment on the photograph of Sinn Féin TDs with the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe that appeared in An Phoblacht.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair must act as a guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said yesterday.

Sinn Fein’s first woman MP for 83 years has given birth to her first child, it was announced today.