Sinn Féin have done it again, in adding insult to injury. They are always embroiled in controversy and scandal.

Sinn Féin's continued "eulogising" of the IRA is thwarting efforts to build a shared future in Northern Ireland, Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has warned.

A Sinn Féin politician has apologised for posting a video showing him with a Kingsmill-branded loaf on his head on the anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre.

Police are investigating a possible paramilitary link to the abduction of a 22-year-old man in Strabane, west Tyrone, on Thursday night.

The leader of a group which commemorates fallen IRA men has denied in the High Court he was involved in an "arranged road traffic accident."

A mental health worker has reached a crowdfunding target to pay for a legal challenge against the UK Government's parliamentary deal with the DUP.

More than 7,500 properties are without a water supply in West Tyrone and Fermanagh.

Up to 500 people are expected to attend a homecoming party for John Downey in Co Donegal.

A republican parade commemorating dead IRA men in a Co Tyrone town should be called off, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers said today.

The Boston Marathon blasts have revived painful memories of the 1998 Omagh bomb in the North, a Stormont Assembly member said.

A DELIGHTFUL sight in the Irish countryside, seen rarely enough these days, is that of a hare bounding along ears up at great speed, especially after being surprised by human, or canine, presence.

First Minister Peter Robinson's DUP has today accused the North's Boundary Commission of gerrymandering in a fierce attack on its proposals to reduce the number of Westminster seats to 16.

The Government has been accused of reneging on a deal struck during the North's peace talks after pulling the plug on funding for a major cross border road link.

The Democratic Unionist Party’s Northern Ireland Assembly victory was tonight hailed as its greatest ever political triumph.

A DELIGHTFUL sight in the Irish countryside, seen rarely enough these days, is that of a hare bounding along ears up at great speed, especially after being surprised by human, or canine, presence.

The Donegal weather had its own tale to tell today, with predictions of a chilling snow storm that might stretch as far as Dublin.

DAVID Cameron admitted he finds it “painful” to work with former IRA chief Martin McGuinness.

COULD Northern Ireland decide the course of British politics tomorrow, after all?

The Ulster Unionist Party’s sole MP Lady Sylvia Hermon today said she will “weigh up her options” after refusing to fight the next election under a joint banner with the Conservative Party.

Mark Durkan steps down as the leader of the SDLP today after a decade at the helm.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today unveiled a plan of nearly £1bn (€1.1bn) to devolve policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly, promising further aid if paramilitary violence erupts.

Householders in the North may not pay water bills for the next three years under legislation introduced in the Northern Assembly today.

Ram raiders stole a cash machine from a pub in Co Tyrone early today.

Mitchel McLaughlin is standing down as the chairman of the Northern Assembly Finance and Personnel Committee as part of a reshuffle announced by Sinn Féin today.

Sinn Féin is dismissing reports on expenses its members have claimed from the British government.

THINGS are bad for Fianna Fáil: on that much the opinion polls are agreed. But are they really behind Labour? Are the Greens going down with them, or holding up well? That’s opinion polls for you: they summarise popular views on a particular day or couple of days.

A Sinn Féin Assembly member today had to apologise for praising members of the party’s youth wing for painting red Royal Mail postboxes green.

CLAIMS that intelligence agents tracked the Omagh bombers on the day of the attack but failed to alert police were rejected in an official report yesterday.

Sinn Féin has announced a series of changes to promote more southerners to leadership roles.

The growing crisis over the future of the Northern Ireland Assembly is fuelling the violence of dissident republican groups, it was claimed today.

An outspoken judge today apologised for branding people from County Tyrone typically 'thick'.

A man was injured after a reported explosion involving a car in the North, police said tonight.

Outgoing Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will address an Oireachtas committee today on the Good Friday Agreement, to mark the historic accord’s 10th anniversary.

Outgoing Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will tomorrow address an Oireachtas Committee on the Good Friday Agreement to mark the historic accord’s 10th anniversary.

Politicians from the North will be allowed for the first time to take part in the workings of the Dáil today.

A former Sinn Féin mayor of Derry is to join the party’s first three Assembly representatives on the Northern Ireland Policing Board.

A pensioner in the North suffered a series of rib fractures after dying in hospital, it emerged today.

Sinn Féin were tonight celebrating a strategic victory with an expected hat-trick in West Tyrone.

Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds, and Sinn Féin's policing spokesperson Gerry Kelly became the third and fourth Assembly members to be elected in the North's Assembly elections today, both capturing seats in North Belfast.

The North’s Assembly Election candidates will learn what the electorate has in store for them today as counting gets under way in 18 constituencies.

Voting in the Northern Assembly election has closed, with many of the parties predicting a higher turnout than four years ago.

The North’s politicians were tonight reporting an above-average turnout at the polls even before the traditional surge of voters in the Assembly Election.

A Unionist leader standing in six constituencies in the North's Assembly Elections today warned the British government against interfering if he is elected to more than one seat.