Shellfish farmers selling tonnes of oysters in Europe have said post-Brexit customs and border ideas are "utterly deluded" and could wipe out their businesses.

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has promised to push for LGBT rights in Ireland and around the world in his speech at the Dublin Pride Parade today.

Police have confirmed they are investigating allegations of vote theft in Foyle, days after Sinn Féin dramatically snatched the seat from the SDLP.

One constituency remained undeclared as the Northern Ireland Assembly reached its conclusion.

A spectacular tree-lined avenue which provided one of the backdrops for the hit fantasy drama Game of Thrones has fallen victim to Storm Gertrude.

The first republican Speaker has been elected at the North’s Assembly.

A man is recovering in hospital after a "paramilitary style" shooting in Derry.

Police in the North are investigating a shooting incident at a house in Derry in the early hours.

A 42-year-old man is being questioned over the alleged possession of a firearm.

They came to say goodbye to an old lady who served her country faithfully for 35 years, during which time she sailed the equivalent distance to the moon and back.

William Dargan: an honourable life 1799-1867

Protestants and Catholics have set aside their fractious past and are united for The 2013 City of Culture, 338 arts events that symbolise progress, says Alan O’Riordan

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First Minister Peter Robinson's DUP has today accused the North's Boundary Commission of gerrymandering in a fierce attack on its proposals to reduce the number of Westminster seats to 16.

Derry is back in the running to host the All-Ireland Fleadh after a provincial governing body reversed its decision not to support the city’s bid.

THE solstice is a time to take stock and make new resolutions.

The Government has been accused of reneging on a deal struck during the North's peace talks after pulling the plug on funding for a major cross border road link.

A teenager from Donegal has died after he was found with serious head injuries in Derry yesterday.

A new bridge linking divided communities in Derry will be a catalyst for change in the city, Martin McGuinness has said.

A man has been arrested following a dissident republican rally in the North.

The story of the 2011 Assembly election has repeated the same plot-line that has been played out for the last 10 years in the North.

DONEGAL’S Inishowen peninsula is set between two loughs, Swilly and Foyle, while Cork city’s Inishowen is set between two schools.

The future of Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson was in doubt today after the sensational General Election defeat of the First Minister of the powersharing executive at Stormont.

The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson sensationally lost his Westminster seat for east Belfast today.

THE general election outcome may still not be clear as dawn breaks over Britain on Friday.

Mark Durkan steps down as the leader of the SDLP today after a decade at the helm.

The number of young people on the electoral register in the North has increased dramatically, it was revealed today.

A man was being questioned by detectives today over a suspected gangland murder more than a year ago.

The SDLP could see its majorities in three Westminster constituencies cut under Boundary Commission recommendations proposed today.

Gardaí in Cork reportedly believe that the murder of a 34-year-old man near the village of Ballydesmond on Monday night was linked to his involvement in the drugs trade.

It could have been a humdrum day in any parliament, with low-key speeches in a hushed, panelled and pillared room.

“THINGS fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” — well the fallout from the Belfast Assembly poll is not quite as bad as WB Yeats’s words suggest, but he was spot-on about the middle ground parties going south.

The DUP’s William Hay yesterday created electoral history when he became the first member of his party to top the poll in the nationalist dominated Foyle constituency.

Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds, and Sinn Féin's policing spokesperson Gerry Kelly became the third and fourth Assembly members to be elected in the North's Assembly elections today, both capturing seats in North Belfast.

Independent republican candidates standing against Sinn Féin in the North's Assembly Elections will not be a flash in the pan, a leading Irish American sympathiser claimed today.

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.

Republicans who broke away from Sinn Féin 20 years ago are to challenge Gerry Adams' party in at least 11 constituencies in the forthcoming Stormont Assembly Election.

More than 40,000 voters will be added to the electoral register in the North in time to allow them to vote in the Assembly election, it was announced today.

Over 80,000 people wiped off Northern Ireland's annual electoral register were today urged to demand their votes back in time for the next Assembly election.

Following recent arson attacks directed at business premises throughout the North, Assistant Chief Constable for Crime Operations Peter Sheridan urged business owners in all areas to regularly check their premises on a daily basis for anything suspicious.

Police appealed for witnesses today after a group of around 25 people staged a street battle in Derry.

The sentencing of a former hypnotist who indecently assaulted 10 women was delayed for a second time today.

Police were attacked tonight for carrying out searches at the home of a solicitor who was secretly taped during meetings with paramilitary suspect clients.