Former Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley has been discharged from hospital, his family said.

An all-Ireland soccer team should take on England every two years to raise money for children, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

A rocket launcher has been discovered in the North, police said.

The former Ulster Unionist MP Ken Maginnis has quit the party, he announced today.

The North's Policing Board has defended the PSNI over its extended detention of three men arrested in connection with the muder of Constable Ronan Kerr.

THE Kingdom newspaper is to cease publication with the loss of 11 jobs — its final edition will hit the streets on Tuesday next.

Thousands of tonnes of waste illegally dumped in rural Co Fermanagh will be returned to the Republic tomorrow.

A vote for hope over fear was how the woman who toppled Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson in East Belfast described her triumph.

Former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today called for the North's First Minister Peter Robinson to go.

The Democratic Unionist Party last night signalled it is not possible to have policing and justice powers devolved to the North by the end of the year, despite republican hopes for progress.

Teaching unions in the North today made an impassioned plea for politicians to broker a deal to end the confusion over the future of education.

Politicians clashed today at the Stormont Assembly over attempts by Ulster Unionists to hand Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness the title of First Minister.

Visitors to a famous loyalist heartland in Belfast can now claim they’ve been there, done that and, quite literally, bought the T-shirt.

The Ulster Unionist Party today made a pact for next year’s European election with former Democratic Unionist MEP Jim Allister, who is seeking to retain the seat he won when still in the DUP.

Democratic Unionist Economy Minister Arlene Foster today won a high profile council by-election in the North.

The people behind a booby-trap bomb attack on a police officer in the North are wedded to the politics of the dinosaur, a senior member of Sinn Féin claimed today.

A schoolgirl died and her cousin was critically injured when a lorry crashed into their school bus on a notoriously dangerous road in the North today.

The lasting legacy of the North’s peace process could be to point a way forward for other conflict zones around the world, a leading US statesman claimed today.

Stormont Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie was today warned that her credibility would be damaged if she lets a deadline slip for loyalist paramilitaries to disarm.

Sinn Féin’s electoral machine outshone its politicians in West Belfast where precise vote management ensured the party seized a record fifth seat.

SINN FÉIN’S move to support the police in the North leaves unionists with no excuse to balk at power sharing, Britain’s Northern Secretary Peter Hain insisted today.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was uged today to move to form a devolved government in the North without Sinn Féin.

Police were under pressure today to catch gangs of armed men robbing pensioners in the North.

It is getting increasingly hard to believe that Sinn Féin can meet its commitment under the St Andrews Plan for power-sharing at Stormont, a senior Democratic Unionist MP claimed today.

Lady Sylvia Hermon today became the first Northern MP to declare she will donate a day’s salary to families affected by the collapse of the Farepak Christmas Savings Scheme.

Dissident republicans have been blamed for a series of arson attacks which destroyed major retail premises near the border today.

A former police chef is to be extradited from the United States to face charges linked to the theft of Special Branch files in Belfast.

A member of the North's Parades Commission whose membership of the Orange Order sparked a legal action has stepped down from the organisation.

An Ulster Unionist councillor is defecting to the Conservatives in protest at the party’s deal with the Progressive Unionist Party, it emerged today.

Northern Secretary Peter Hain tonight denied there was any prospect of the Irish and British governments jointly ruling the North in the event of no power-sharing government at Stormont.

Loyalist paramilitary groups are being urged to follow the Loyalist Volunteer Force and order their military units to stand down.

Nationalist and unionist politicians have been paying tribute to former Northern Secretary Mo Mowlam, who died this morning from injuries sustained in a fall earlier this month.

A loyalist paramilitary chief was under protection tonight after rival gunmen in Belfast murdered a teenager and left a man fighting for his life.

The Provisional IRA has admitted killing a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Derry more than 30 years ago and has apologised to the girl's family.

The Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists were today under fire after it emerged their leadership attended a dinner in Dublin with leading businessmen from the Republic of Ireland.

The Democratic Unionist Party is believed to have chosen a former head of the North's Police Federation as one of its candidate for the upcoming British election.

The Irish and British governments are under pressure today to advance the North's peace process without the IRA.

Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness will today talk face-to-face for the first time with a Northern Ireland Chief Constable.

Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley tonight said more progress was being made on a deal to resurrect devolution.

Northern Ireland is moving towards a two-party system with the Ulster Unionists and SDLP increasingly marginalised, a Stormont Assembly member has claimed.

The Northern Ireland Assembly will not survive another year’s suspension, leading Ulster Unionist Michael McGimpsey warned today.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will decide on Friday whether to get directly re-involved with efforts to restore devolution to Northern Ireland, it was revealed today.

A bitter row erupted tonight between rival unionist parties in Northern Ireland as the Irish and British governments planned a fresh push to restore the Stormont Assembly.

The Democratic Unionists’ refusal to engage with Sinn Féin in talks on the future of the Good Friday Agreement shows a lack of conviction in their own position, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said tonight.