The leaders of Stormont's two main parties have defended the continued payment of Assembly member salaries while devolution is in cold storage.

DUP leader Peter Robinson was back behind his desk today following the shock revelation that his wife tried to kill herself after confessing to an affair.

Independent News & Media's Newry print centre is to benefit from an additional £7m (€10m) investment for further expansion and the purchase of two high speed print towers, it was announced today.

Former Special Branch chief Bill Lowry claimed he was “humiliated” when he was forced to stand down from the North’s police service, it emerged tonight.

DAVID Trimble’s Ulster Unionists are encouraging a new loyalist paramilitary killing spree by threatening Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams claimed yesterday.