A long-awaited Stormont report into the Iris Robinson scandal is expected to be published later.

Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has been cleared of breaching a code of conduct following an investigation into a sex and money scandal involving his wife, sources have said.

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Belfast has avoided the serious flooding that many feared after a tidal surge came and went without breaching defences.

SMALL plates are fast becoming a real enduring trend in restaurants.

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

Nama is to provide £15m (€18m) to finish two office blocks in Belfast, it was revealed today.

Final preparations are underway for the 39th G8 summit, which takes place in Co Fermanagh tomorrow.

The Belfast shipbuilders of the Titanic are “unsung heroes” who made it possible for many of the passengers to escape, film director James Cameron said yesterday.

The Belfast shipbuilders of the Titanic are “unsung heroes” who made it possible for many of the passengers to escape, film director James Cameron said.

The historic handshake between the British Queen and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness, together with his words of blessing as they said goodbye, have been hailed as a watershed moment for Irish-Britishrelations.

Snow Patrol is donating £10,000 (€11,970) to the Joby Murphy sonar fund.

TAKING the elevator up to the dome crowning Victoria Square Shopping Centre, peering out over Belfast’s twinkling skyline, I try to take in the changes that have washed over this city.

Divers searching for the body of a man who fell into the River Lagan after a night out drinking have found today a body.

Disgraced former MP Iris Robinson will not face charges over her role in helping her toyboy lover set up in business.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Catholic teenager in Belfast 37 years ago, it has emerged today.

Fresh leads in a 37-year-old murder investigation prompted PSNI detectives to reopen the cold case today.

A controversial new play inspired by a sex scandal surrounding the shamed MP wife of the North’s First Minister Peter Robinson is set to open in Belfast.

Disgraced former MP Iris Robinson has been questioned by police investigating her financial affairs, it was revealed tonight.

The replacement for disgraced Northern Ireland Assembly Member Iris Robinson was named today.

Troubled Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson today admitted revelations about his wife's affair have left him desolate and struggling to face the outside world.

DUP leader Peter Robinson has asked a party colleague to step in as First Minister, the Northern Ireland Assembly was told today.

Senior DUP member Gregory Campbell has said party leader Peter Robinson should be given a week to prove that he did not breach any rules over his wife's financial affairs.

IRIS ROBINSON’s affair with 19-year-old Kirk McCambley’s lasted for five months, starting in the summer of 2008.

The North’s beleaguered First Minister was attempting to clear his name tonight after insisting he did not know of his wife’s irregular financial dealings with her teenage lover.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson hit out today at claims that he failed to alert watchdogs when his wife allegedly broke parliamentary rules to help her teenage lover.

The North's First Minister Peter Robinson was under new pressure tonight after it was alleged that his wife organised a £50,000 (€55,752) loan to help her young lover set up a business in Belfast.

A man died today after he was pulled from a river.

Over 200 rivers in the North are officially classified as ’polluted’ it was revealed today.

The emergency services were looking for a man seen entering the River Lagan in Belfast today.

A bank official told the Northern Bank trial today that he sent staff home early so he and a colleague could empty the vault.

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

Two women had to be rescued early this morning after falling into mud flats at the edge of the River Lagan in Belfast.

A police officer has rescued a 32-year-old woman from the River Lagan in Belfast this morning.

Belfast's Big Wheel has been so popular it could stay in the city for years, it was revealed today.

Belfast will officially welcome home one of the last links to the Titanic today following a 24-hour delay due to a sudden death at the shipyard where both vessels were built.

A young Catholic man bludgeoned to death by loyalist killers had escaped an earlier attack by diving into a river as gunmen opened fire, an inquest heard today.

Police in the North are investigating the discovery of a body in the River Lagan in south Belfast this morning.

Police in the North have confirmed that they are treating the death of a man whose body was pulled from the River Lagan in Belfast earlier this week as murder.

An arena built as part of Belfast’s millennium celebrations has – unlike many others – proved a success by contributing over £100m (€146m) to the local economy, it was revealed today.

Spectacular plans to transform the harbour where the ill-fated Titanic liner was built into Europe’s largest waterfront development could mean up to 20,000 new jobs, it was announced today.

A man is fighting for his life at a Belfast hospital after a savage beating in the city. The victim is thought to be a 29-year-old Catholic.

The body of a man who disappeared from a Northern hospital nearly three weeks ago was found today, yards from the hospital.

The family of a mother hacked to death by a mental patient demanded a public inquiry today into why her murderer had been allowed to walk free from a psychiatric hospital a month before the killing.