It was the day after the first RTÉ Claire Byrne debate on the abortion referendum, which had turned into a shouting match: The anti-abortion side had hijacked the programme.

The BBC has apologised for a presenter's reference to Londonderry GAA during a Sunday sport bulletin.

The Dalai Lama has called for a denuclearised world and warned force would not solve the North Korean crisis.

The New IRA has developed a different kind of highly dangerous explosive bomb, the PSNI have warned.

The operator of a care home ordered to shut down by inspectors has vowed to keep its doors open.

A toddler was sleeping in a house when at least two gunshots were fired through the front windows, police said.

Martin McGuinness had a commanding role in IRA violence but his contribution to peace will be long remembered, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

Update: Northern Ireland's political leaders have cast their ballots in the region's snap election.

Police in the North are fighting more than 100 organised crime gangs, MLAs have heard.

From Florida to Ennistymon, with the divided street of Belfast in between, Ed Randolph has made an impression wherever he pitched up to play basketball. Just like his son, and Republic of Ireland keeper, Darren, writes Kieran Shannon.

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The Ulster Unionist Party has described proposals to change the official name of Londonderry to Derry as “divisive and unnecessary”.

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THE work of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland between 1824 and 1842 was both immense and controversial. 

Army bomb squad officers were called out almost every day in the North within the space of a year, new figures have revealed.

Cork City Hall is to host a major MTV event later this year, it has been confirmed.

For fear we may never see his likes again, should we not seek a sample of Christy Moore’s DNA and put it in a time capsule?

A legal challenge is likely if Northern Ireland is left as the only part of the UK without marriage rights for same-sex couples, Amnesty International has warned.

British Prime Minister David Cameron wants the use of premium rate telephone helplines for flooding victims to be ended “as quickly as it possibly can be”, Downing Street has said.

Police have warned that the docks area close to Belfast city centre could flood in a tidal surge later today, but have expressed hope that serious flooding in the east of the city may now be prevented.

Security measures are being ramped up in Belfast city centre following an explosion outside a busy restaurant that could have killed festive revellers.

A bomb that exploded outside a busy restaurant in Belfast city centre following a misleading telephone warning could have killed or maimed festive revellers, a police commander has said.

A blank gallery where people engage in conversations about the economy and a huge naked humanoid figure are to battle it out for the UK’s best-known art award, the Turner Prize.

The dilapidated offices where plans for the Titanic were drawn up are to be re-opened as part of a £5m (€5.9m) regeneration project.

The world-famous poet, Seamus Heaney who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, passed away today at 74 years of age.

Terrorists who prepared to launch two mortar explosives in south Armagh had planned to kill police officers, a senior commander said today.

Derry is to enter a yacht in the longest ocean race on the planet, it has been revealed.

Politicians in Northern Ireland today backed a motion which described a ban on a controversial Orange Order parade as “illogical”.

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A controversial Orange Order parade on a disputed stretch of road separating loyalists and nationalists in north Belfast has passed off without major incident.

Killings by British troops in Northern Ireland are to be re-examined after a major report claimed investigators were not rigorous enough in their questioning of members of the security forces.

British Government plans to tear down all of the North’s peace walls within 10 years are ambitious, according to an organisation that has worked with interface communities for the past year.

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The City of Culture has suffered from a poor marketing strategy, its organisers admitted today.

Security gates surrounding the centre of the UK’s first City of Culture are to be removed, it was announced today.

A vehicle found abandoned and made safe in Fermanagh was carrying a viable bomb, security sources said.

Four mortar bombs were found when police thwarted a major attack by dissident republicans in Derry.

Police evacuated about 100 homes today after they discovered a “suspicious object”, reported to be three mortars, in a van, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.

Two men are being questioned in connection with a car crash, which killed a “bubbly and beautiful” policewoman in her patrol car.

Detectives investigating the attempted murder of a police officer in Northern Ireland have made two arrests.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton urged an end to the new outbreak of violence in Northern Ireland today.