A crunch meeting where senior members of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) will vote on whether to walk away from Northern Ireland’s powersharing government over claims the Provisional IRA (PIRA) still exists has begun in Belfast.

Former Commonwealth heavyweight champion Martin Rogan has questioned the actions of Sandy Row Amateur Boxing Club after they compiled a 57-page report outlining verbal and physical assaults sustained by their members over the course of a decade.

Northern Ireland can witness an economic revolution if the Stormont administration is restructured to prioritise growth, the Alliance Party pledged today.

The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) tonight ruled out severing its links with the Ulster Volunteer Force despite the group’s role in a bloody loyalist feud.