Another Sinn Féin councillor has resigned from the party because of political differences.

Stormont's Parliament Buildings should join iconic sites such as the Golden Gate Bridge and Sydney Opera House in staging a 'black-out' to highlight climate change, it was claimed today.

Fermanagh South Tyrone was tonight shaping up to be a dull election story - until one of the candidates got arrested in connection with an attempted murder.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams today was flying to the US as Northern Ireland’s largest political party prepared for next month’s review of the Good Friday Agreement.

Former Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson was expected today to confirm his defection to the Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists.

David Trimble’s troubled leadership was under intense pressure tonight as he prepared to take charge of a new Ulster Unionist Assembly party left hopelessly split over the Good Friday Agreement.

In Fermanagh South Tyrone, anti-Agreement UUP candidate Arlene Foster and Sinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew have been elected.

Former US president Bill Clinton was today set to meet survivors of the IRA Poppy Day bombing massacre and launch a peace project on the site of the 1987 blast which killed 11 people.

Sports ministers from both sides of the border were among thousands of mourners at the funerals of car rally champion Bertie Fisher and his son and daughter.