The Irish and British governments today agreed a formal arrangement which paves the way for the flow of natural gas into Northern Ireland.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble faced renewed pressure to resign today after his predecessor called for a change in the party’s management.

Fresh talks have been launched to avoid a bitter split in David Trimble’s Ulster Unionist Party, it emerged today.

NATIONALISM in the North has always had a habit of renewing itself.

The Democratic Unionist Party was tonight accused by its main rival of adopting a “parasitical” approach to the Good Friday Agreement.

Unionists were tonight urged to thwart Sinn Féin‘s chances of winning extra seats during next week‘s Northern Ireland Assembly Election.

RIVAL wings of the Ulster Unionist Party were yesterday heading towards another bitter showdown.

Nationalists and republicans on both sides of the Irish border were staging protests over the postponement of elections which should have taken place in Northern Ireland today.

In the North, Sir Reg Empey insisted today that a permanent end to all forms of paramilitarism was his party's bottom line in the new round of talks to restore devolution in Northern Ireland.

A man was arrested today after eight police officers came under gun attack in Belfast during a fresh outbreak of violence in the city.

The Ulster Unionist deputy leader, Sir Reg Empey, has accused Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams of refusing to accept his share of responsibility for the impending crisis in the peace process.

A rescue package to save troubled Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff from closure today appeared to be edging towards government approval.

Belfast shipyard Harland & Wolff today announced that it is laying off 144 of its employees in a bid to preserve the industry.

Stormont minister Sir Reg Empey is to be questioned about hospitality spending linked to the use of an unauthorised credit card by Northern Ireland tourist board staff in New York.

A loyalist terror group seen as a cover for the Ulster Defence Association tonight admitted raking a north Belfast community centre with gunfire.

The Electricity Regulator in Northern Ireland is to examine the reaction of the province's power company to the storms which cut off more than 100,000 homes.

Loyalist pipe bombers have been accused of undermining the case for IRA disarmament by an Ulster Unionist minister in the Northern Executive.

A new report says more than 4,000 jobs in the Northern Ireland textile and clothing industry will go over the next four years even if the region implements a new survival action plan.