Ian Paisley has been praised as the politician who finally cemented Northern Ireland’s peace process.

A Belfast tower building 11 storeys higher than the Republic’s tallest structure, the Elysian, has been sold as part of a loan sale.

A permanent zipline could be built across the River Lagan in Belfast.

Fourteen people have been taken to hospital after a double-decker bus carrying a party of wedding guests overturned in the North.

Disgraced MP Iris Robinson is under police investigation after securing £50,000 (€57,000) from two developers to fund her toyboy lover’s restaurant business, it was disclosed tonight.

The North’s main political parties are set for more talks today as efforts intensify to finally resolve the long-running dispute over the devolution of policing powers.

Foreign Minister Micheál Martin and the Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward are due to meet tonight as the Irish and British governments prepare to step up the pressure to end the political crisis in Belfast in the aftermath of the Iris Robinson scandal.

Police in the North were tonight trying to identify the body of a man pulled from the River Lagan.

Construction company Graham is to create 200 jobs in Co Down after being given the go-ahead for a new £10m (€12.5m) eco-friendly HQ which it plans as a showcase for potential clients.

A former Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officer is set to take charge of an Assembly committee tasked with reporting on the transfer of policing and justice powers, it has emerged.

SIAC Construction and Spanish infrastructure giant Cintra have landed the €600 million contract to build the controversial M3 motorway linking Dublin with the Meath towns of Navan and Kells, the National Roads Authority said yesterday.

Coca-Cola announced tonight it had selected a Northern Ireland site for a new £53 million an all-island production plant.

The British general election campaign in Northern Ireland will change up a gear today as parties begin to nominate candidates for the province’s 18 Westminster constituencies.

A MAN was being questioned by police last night after Northern Ireland’s knife culture resulted in another murder.

A young Irish director will get the chance of a lifetime to have a short film screened at an international movie festival if it scoops the top prize in a competition in Belfast next month.

A MAJOR row erupted yesterday after suggestions that the Tricolour was deliberately hidden and a copy of the Proclamation of Independence removed from Cork’s City Hall for a twinning ceremony with Belfast City Council.

The wife of Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today confirmed she would try to unseat rival Democratic Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson at the next General Election.

Former Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson today appealed to former colleagues to work with his party in the run up to next month’s crucial peace process talks.

Tony Blair should become the first British Prime Minister in 80 years to stand up to Unionists over the Northern Ireland peace process, British anti-Iraq war MP George Galloway has insisted.

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

Rebel MP Geoffrey Donaldson was tonight ordered to support the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party or face expulsion.

The IRA was expected to confirm a significant disarmament act today, part of a series of choreographed moves to boost the Northern Ireland peace process.

INFORMATION on the location of nine people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA was given to the Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains.

Protesters are planning to march on Belfast Council in a new bid to save one of the city’s oldest leisure centres from closure, it emerged today.

Hardline Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson was tonight considering his political future after losing the latest vote at his party’s ruling council.

Hard-line Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson today repeated his call for his party to reject the British and Irish governments’ joint declaration.

The British Government was under pressure today to make a definitive statement on whether Assembly elections would go ahead in Northern Ireland as planned.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Prime Minister Tony Blair were expected to reach a decision today on whether the latest IRA statement could advance the peace process.

A post mortem examination on the body of a woman found in the river Lagan in Lisburn, Co Antrim, on Sunday has revealed she died of stab wounds to the chest.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has appointed rival Jeffrey Donaldson to his talks team, sources in the party confirmed tonight.

Anti-Good Friday Agreement Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson’s six-point plan for party unity and decommissioning was tonight endorsed by a prominent pro-Agreement member of the UUP.