It is understood that three Independent TDs have agreed to support Martin McGuinness' bid for the Presidency.

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness is to run for the office of President of Ireland, his party confirmed tonight.

IRISH publisher Niall O’Dowd received a knock to his campaign to compete for the Presidential election after Fianna Fáil declared it would be weeks before it decides on whether it will support a candidate.

The GAA has rubbished a newspaper report that claimed that score detection technology will be trialled in the All-Ireland Club finals this year.

ONE of the GAA’s longest running passion plays should come to an end on Saturday afternoon in Newcastle, Co Down when the association’s delegates are expected to give Central Council the right to admit soccer and rugby games to Croke Park in perpetuity.

Sinn Féin’s Martin Ferris today stood by his controversial decision to meet the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe on their release from prison.

Stormont Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness today insisted threats to the North’s economy by the Republic’s toxic assets agency were being taken seriously.

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness tonight challenged the Democratic Unionists to use their stunning electoral triumph to form a new Northern Ireland power-sharing government in two weeks’ time.

The Northern Secretary, Peter Hain, has welcomed the Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams' decision to call an Ard Chomhairle meeting on policing, calling it a “seismic step”.

SINN FÉIN yesterday categorically ruled out PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde’s offer to address the special party conference on policing.

Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams today said speculation more spies could be unearthed within the party may be coming from some elements within the British intelligence service.

THE core issue of the move towards restoring devolved government in Northern Ireland was whether the Democratic Unionist Party is capable of striking a deal, Sinn Féin claimed on Saturday.

Sinn Féin Chairman Mitchell McLaughlin today said that the DUP must abandon what he labelled their "anti-Agreement" position, and make progress based on the principles of the Good Friday Agreement.

Sinn Féin’s chairman Mitchell McLaughlin has said he believes the British government is on the verge of calling fresh elections in the North.

The IRA “juggernaut” has been halted in Northern Ireland and Sinn Fein “hollowed out,” Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has claimed.

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams is expected to deliver a very critical speech at the party's Ard Chomhairle in Dublin this afternoon.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams are to discuss the Northern Ireland peace process in Dublin on Monday.

Sinn Fein are due to announce today that they will be organising a vigorous campaign against the coming second referendum on the Nice Treaty. The Republican party are maintaining that this second referendum is nothing but a rehash of the first one.

A specially convened meeting of Sinn Fein members was held tonight to assess the fall-out from IRA decommissioning among "troubled" grass-roots republicans.