THE suspension of the Stormont Assembly in 2002 took on an extraordinary series of Machiavellian twists yesterday with revelations that Sinn Féin’s head of administration at the Assembly has been a British spy for two decades.

POLICE in the North have made another arrest in connection with last December’s £26.5 million (€37.5m) robbery at Northern Bank headquarters in Belfast.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern has said that a Sinn Féin-Fianna Fail coalition in the Republic is out of the question unless the party changes its economic policies.

SINN FÉIN gate-crashed the launch of a human rights report and protested, during a brief stunt about alleged security force collusion.

Sinn Féin must address the future of the IRA if it is to bridge its huge credibility gap, the party was told today.

What has the world come to? You can’t even get an infamous ‘Sniper At Work’ t-shirt or poster at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis.

Forensic evidence found during the examination of the body of IRA “Disappeared” victim Jean McConville could still be used to convict her murderers, it emerged today.

Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government was teetering on the brink of collapse tonight, as British Prime Minister Tony Blair summoned Sinn Fein leaders to Downing Street for crisis talks this week.