Politicians in Northern Ireland today backed a motion which described a ban on a controversial Orange Order parade as “illogical”.

The North's chief constable has stressed the impartiality of the police service after the region‘s first minister raised concerns about a perception of bias against loyalists.

A prominent loyalist campaigner involved in Union flag protests in Northern Ireland has been refused bail after being accused of encouraging or assisting offences.

One of the chief organisers of the street demonstrations in protest against lowering of the Union flag at Belfast City Hall was charged tonight.

High-profile Union flag demonstrator Willie Frazer has vowed he will not be intimidated by those responsible for an overnight arson attack on his home.

A car has been destroyed in an arson attack outside the home of the loyalist campaigner Willie Frazer in County Armagh.

THE Garda Siochana had a difficult and sensitive task to carry out in persuading Willie Frazer and his motley crew not to come to Dublin tomorrow to demand that the Irish flag be removed from Leinster House (where it wouldn’t be flying anyway because it doesn’t fly over the houses of the Oireachtas when the Dáil and Seanad are not sitting).

Loyalists look set to delay plans to stage a rally in Dublin in protest at the lowering of the union flag above Belfast City Hall.

It has been reported that Willie Frazer may be visiting Dublin to ask the Taoiseach to lower our national flag.

The organisers of a loyalist march in Dublin have said that they are working with gardaí to identify a new date for their event.

After conflicting reports earlier this evening, it has been confirmed that a loyalist protest march planned for this weekend in Dublin has been postponed.

There are conflicting reports this evening on whether a planned protest march by loyalists in Dublin will go ahead.

A loyalist protest planned for Dublin this weekend has been called off. It is understood organisers agreed to cancel the demonstration after discussions with the Gardaí.

Gardaí have not received notification from the org-anisers of a controversial protest on the union flag issue, just days before a planned demonstration outside Leinster House.

To give the Irish people a sense of how loyalists feel at the decision of Belfast City Council to restrict the flying of the Union flag on City Hall to 17 designated days a year, loyalist activist Willie Frazer, in a planned protest by a group of about 150 loyalists due to take place outside Leinster House on Saturday next, will be asking for the Tricolour to be taken down.

A group representing retailers is urging the Gardaí not to licence a protest march planned for Dublin this weekend over the flying of the union flag at Belfast city hall.

An SDLP councillor, her husband and infant daughter were lucky to avoid injury last night after seven shots were fired at their home.

Police were bracing themselves for another night of violence after a protest by loyalists against new restrictions on flying the Union flag passed peacefully.

The sole survivor and victims of the IRA Kingsmill massacre are just as important as all other victims of the Troubles, the Taoiseach has insisted.

Controversial plans for a forum in the North to give a voice to the victims and survivors of the Troubles are published today.

A hardline unionist in the North is calling for the prosecution of Martin McGuinness following the emergence of a photograph showing him holding a gun.

A group supporting Protestant victims of the North's Troubles said tonight that plans to hold a major Dublin rally had been ruled out after a meeting with the Government.

The FAIR group in the North concerns itself exclusively with the victims of republican violence.

THE news last week that senior garda officers have tentatively sanctioned a second Love Ulster rally in Dublin this summer must be viewed with some concern.

REFRESHING signs of Ireland’s changing political climate will be seen on the streets of both the Republic and the North this summer.

A unionist umbrella group for victims of the Troubles plans to march 3,000 people through Dublin in a second attempt at a so-called "Love Ulster" rally, it was revealed today.

GARDAÍ must not allow another planned Love Ulster parade to pass through Dublin unless it can guarantee there won’t be a repeat of the violence that cost businesses €10 million last year.

YOUR editorial of March 20, in which you welcome the decision by Willie Frazer of FAIR (Families Acting for Innocent Relatives) to seek permission to hold a Love Ulster march in Dublin next September is, in my view, very regrettable.

A Unionist leader standing in six constituencies in the North's Assembly Elections today warned the British government against interfering if he is elected to more than one seat.

The man behind February's ‘Love Ulster’ rally in Dublin is being questioned by police.

Loyalist victim's group FAIR has denied claims that it has abandoned plans to re-stage its parade through Dublin city centre.

The organisers of last Saturday's contentious loyalist march in Dublin have said they want to restage the event at a future date.

The Northern organisers of the 'Love Ulster' rally in Dublin on Saturday, headed by south Armagh man Willie Frazer, said this afternoon that they may apply for a re-run.

More than 1,000 Loyalists are arriving in Dublin this morning for their planned march through the city centre.

THE proposed march for Orange victims of violence, due to take place in Dublin this month, is a cause for concern on a number of counts.

The organisers of a loyalist rally in Belfast at the weekend are considering staging a similar event in Dublin, it emerged today.

THE Catholic priest who witnessed the completion of IRA disarmament is being investigated by police for alleged incitement to hatred after comparing Northern Protestants to Nazis.

The Catholic priest who witnessed the completion of IRA disarmament is being investigated by police for alleged incitement to hatred after comparing the North's Protestants to Nazis, it was confirmed today.

Controversial comments by Father Alec Reid comparing unionists in the North to the Nazis were said in the heat of the moment, his fellow witness to IRA disarmament claimed today.

The priest who witnessed IRA decommissioning provoked fury after he compared the unionist community to Nazis for their treatment of Catholics in the North.

One of the independent church witnesses to IRA decommissioning tonight compared the unionist community to Nazis for their treatment of Catholics in Northern Ireland.

The spokesman for a controversial group campaigning on behalf of Protestant victims of republican violence has won a court battle for official protection.

A former spy who infiltrated the IRA went to the west Belfast home of the man who denies being British Army agent Stakenife today in a bid to force him into court.

The British government was today facing fresh calls in Northern Ireland to reopen investigations into unsolved murders in south Armagh during the Troubles.