Fine Gael leader, Enda Kenny, will lead a party delegation on a visit to the North today.

New Northern Deputy First Minister, Mark Durkan, has held his first meeting with the Taoiseach in Dublin.

Stormont Security Minister Jane Kennedy has announced a series of measures in a bid to stem sectarian attacks in the Ardoyne area.

Loyalists say there will be no end to the protests against schoolchildren and their Catholic parents in north Belfast.

Northern Secretary John Reid will meet representatives from nationalist Ardoyne and the loyalist Glenbryn estate later today in an effort to end the protests against Catholic children walking to school through the loyalist area.