IRELAND’S National Day of Commemoration was held across the country yesterday to honour Irish military personnel who gave their lives in historic wars or on peacekeeping duties with the United Nations.

Political leaders and military veterans are due to gather in Dublin tomorrow to commemorate the Battle of the Somme.

Northern Ireland and Scotland will not be able to attain special EU status in the wake of Brexit, Theresa Villiers has said.

Sinn Fein MEP Martina Anderson was applauded in the EU parliament today as she argued that Northern Ireland’s democratic vote to remain within the European Union should be upheld and defended.

Opposition parties here are now at odds over whether there should be a border poll after the Brexit vote.

Stormont’s first minister has insisted Northern Ireland’s place in the Brexiting UK is safe, despite the region voting for Remain.

People living along Ireland's border are gripped by trepidation and fear in the countdown to the UK's referendum, business chiefs have said.

THE report published yesterday into the Loughinisland massacre, in which six Catholic men were murdered by UVF gunmen in a bar as they watched Ireland play Italy in the 1994 World Cup, vindicates the victims’ relatives determination to prove there was official collusion with the killers and that an earlier report was inaccurate.

Internal borders within the UK would be anathema to unionists, a minister in the North has warned.

Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers believes claims that a Brexit could threaten the peace process are “scaremongering of the most irresponsible and dangerous kind”.

Ryanair boss Micheal O’Leary has attacked Tory MP Boris Johnson and other leaders of the Brexit campaign, saying they couldn’t “organise a piss-up in a brewery”.

Communities across the North must stand together to reject the dark deeds of the dark men who murdered a prison officer, mourners at his funeral were told.

A prison officer who died after he was injured in a bomb attack in Belfast may have had a heart attack, his colleagues said.

A prison officer who died after he was injured in a bomb attack in Belfast may have had a heart attack, his colleagues said.

Theresa Villiers has indicated she is willing to release some of the £150m (€192m) earmarked for dealing with the legacy of the Troubles.

Five British Cabinet ministers have declared they will campaign to leave the European Union - despite a stark warning from David Cameron that an "out" vote would be a "leap in the dark".

A pernicious narrative seeking to blame the State for almost every atrocity in the North's Troubles must be challenged, the British Government has said.

Heavy weaponry was used in a suspected dissident republican gun attack on police officers in west Belfast, a senior officer has revealed.

A former independent reviewer of UK terror laws is among a trio of legal and political experts appointed to a body set up to assess paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland.

The British government has announced the three members of an independent panel set up to assess paramilitary activity in the North of Ireland.

Crucial talks to save the North's powersharing political institutions are due to begin in Belfast today.

The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader is recovering after suffering an adverse reaction to medication.

ONE of the conventions of those courtroom dramas so very popular in the early days of television was that a prosecutor would never ask a question he — it was always a “he” in those monochrome, mackintosh days — did not already know the answer to. It was a policy that tripped up many theatrical, over-the-top villians.

Progress to resolve the crisis threatening the North's political institutions is being made, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson has insisted.

Uncertainty continues to dog political talks aimed at saving power-sharing in Northern Ireland after a British government statement failed to prompt unionists to sign up to negotiations.

JUST as our friends and neighbours in the North can only look on in despair — or even indifference — as Stormont politicians of all hues talk themselves into another frenzy of no-surrender obstructionism, the citizens of Europe, most of whom want a humane response to the growing refugee crisis, can only look on in frustration fast turning to shame as national ministers struggle to agree on how each EU member state might contribute proportionately to a community-wide response.

Uncertainty continues to dog political talks aimed at saving power-sharing in the North after a British Government statement failed to prompt unionists to sign up to negotiations.

The British government must take action to deal with the fallout sparked by an IRA-linked murder before the Democratic Unionists are prepared to enter cross-party crisis talks in the North, leader Peter Robinson has indicated.

Political talks aimed at saving the North's crisis-hit power sharing government from collapse will take place in Belfast later.

Sinn Féin has said it is “open” to the potential return of the Independent Monitoring Commission to ensure paramilitary groups no longer exist after Northern Ireland’s secretary of state said this may be the only way to resolve the current crisis.

Peter Robinson has resigned as Northern Ireland’s first minister and pulled all his party colleagues bar one from the power sharing administration. Here are some key questions and answers about the political crisis.

Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has said setting up an independent body to look at decommissioning command structures is a "credible'' option amid the North's political crisis.

Peter Robinson has resigned as the North's first minister and pulled all his party colleagues bar one from the powersharing administration.

Arlene Foster will take the reins in her first day as the sole unionist in the North's faltering powersharing government.

The adjournment, suspension or collapse of power-sharing at Stormont would not only alter the political landscape in the North, it would also impact politicians’ pay packets.

LIKE every member of democratic parliaments around the world, the members of the Northern Assembly, every last one of them, was elected to administer, run, develop, and advance the society they represent.

An independent monitoring commission-style group could be brought back to examine ongoing paramilitary activity in a bid to save Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government from collapsing, over the provisional IRA crisis.

Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald has insisted she is 100% certain that no money from the Provisional IRA or linked criminality has been used to fund her party.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has called on gardaí to examine where money held or obtained by the Provisional IRA has been placed, amid ongoing criticism from Sinn Féin over political attacks on the party.

Fianna Fáil has accused Taoiseach Enda Kenny of showing a lack of leadership over the Provisional IRA controversy, saying that he has failed to make any significant comment on the situation since it emerged last Friday.

Evidence of Provisional IRA activity is of sufficient strength to force the exclusion of Sinn Fein from the North’s powersharing government, the Democratic Unionists have insisted.