The DUP has retained its position as the largest party in the North but the UUP is arguably celebrating harder after landing two surprise wins in the general election.

The DUP has retained its position as the largest party in the North, but the UUP is arguably celebrating harder after landing two surprise wins in the General Election.

The Democratic Unionists are this morning wondering if the post-election shakedown will hand them added influence at Westminster after a Northern Ireland poll that produced a couple of surprises.

A guest due to attend a Traveller wedding has died after being gunned down outside a church in the North.

One of two men shot attending a wedding in the North has died, police have said.

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Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has condemned last night's reported gun attack on a police station Co Fermanagh, calling it "cold blooded".

The Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker has criticised three MLAs he claims used offensive remarks during a debate on the Police Ombudsman.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will join British prime minister on a visit to a First World War memorial in Belgium next month.

The BBC has apologised for a Question Time production gaffe that saw a Stormont minister labelled as being a member of “Sinn Fein/IRA”.

A security alert is continuing in the North after a suspect device was found in Co. Fermanagh.

A vehicle found abandoned in a rural part of the North could be carrying a suspected bomb, police said tonight.

Ulster Unionist MLA John McCallister has expressed his disappointment after party leader Mike Nesbitt sacked him as deputy leader of the UUP’s Assembly team.

Police in the North have said the object found on a small plane in the North last night was not an explosive device.

Two explosions in Derry forced elderly residents to leave their sheltered accommodation last night.

The leader of the Ulster Unionists has rejected a British Conservative Party proposal that they disband and become a Northern Ireland wing of the Tories.

Two senior Ulster Unionist politicians will not face Orange Order punishment for attending the funeral of a Catholic policeman murdered by dissident republicans.

Ulster Unionist leader Tom Elliott has rounded on internal critics in his party, using a keynote speech to promise tough discipline.

Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness today pledged to re-double their efforts to create a better and shared future in the North as they were reappointed First and Deputy First Minister.

LIKE any half-decent barrister, TUV leader Jim Allister understands that the people who sit on juries don’t necessarily use their intelligence when making decisions.

Talks on the formation of a new Government in Stormont are set to get underway following the completion of the count in the North's Assembly elections.

The story of the 2011 Assembly election has repeated the same plot-line that has been played out for the last 10 years in the North.

The leader of the North's Ulster Unionist Party was under pressure tonight after branding Sinn Féin “scum” in an election count outburst.

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The head of the Catholic church in Ireland called for an end to the futility and evil of violence in a powerful statement at Pc Ronan Kerr’s funeral today.

A 25-year-old police officer has been killed by a booby-trap car bomb in Omagh, Co Tyrone, police have confirmed.

Peter Robinson dismissed the latest controversy over who will become first minister as an electoral tactic today.

A soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment who was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan has been named by the UK's Ministry of Defence as Lance Corporal Stephen McKee.

The Ulster Unionists and the SDLP have failed to challenge the British government over the cuts being imposed on Stormont, Martin McGuinness has said.

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The SDLP have branded the draft Budget lazy and unimaginative – heightening fears of a Stormont split on the crucial legislation.

The Cork air crash disaster starkly shows how fragile life can be, Northern Ireland’s First Minister has said.

Most schools in the North are hopeful of re-opening on time after the water leaks crisis, it was claimed today.

The new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Tom Elliott has removed his predecessor Reg Empey from the Northern Ireland Executive, it was confirmed today.

IT is noteworthy that the first days of the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) by Tom Elliott are characterised by what he will apparently not do rather than what he is determined to accomplish.

FORMER Ireland rugby international and Ulster Unionist Party member Trevor Ringland has said he will leave the party if new leader Tom Elliott does not change his attitude towards the GAA.

The new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) faced his first resignation today after he was accused of snubbing gaelic games.

New Ulster Unionist Party leader Tom Elliott will meet party staff and officers today following his landslide victory.

Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Tom Elliott confirmed today that he will run for the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party.