Arlene Foster has warned Sinn Féin it is "dangerous" to dictate to other parties who they should nominate for government positions.

Talks resume in Belfast today, aimed at restoring the North's power-sharing executive.

Stormont party chiefs will meet Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire later for preliminary talks on finding a way to restore devolution, it is understood.

WHEN, after a decade or so of risky, tortuous negotiations, the Good Friday Peace Agreement was signed in April 1998, Bill Clinton had been president of America for five years, Tony Blair had been in Downing Street for just over a year and Bertie Ahern was approaching the first anniversary of his election as taoiseach. 

Theresa May and Enda Kenny have ordered government ministers to open urgent talks with parties in Northern Ireland in an attempt to restore devolution.

Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionists are on course to reinforce their grip on power at Stormont, with the republican party closing the gap on their unionist rivals.

Voting in the Northern Ireland Assembly election is being described as steady.

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

Former Stormont first minister Peter Robinson has issued an eve of election message urging the North's politicians to step back and avert a headlong rush towards the destruction of devolution.

Northern Ireland’s political leaders have traded angry words in the last televised debate of the Assembly election campaign.

There is a “window of opportunity” to reach agreement securing the future of the power-sharing administration, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has said.

LIKE every member of democratic parliaments around the world, the members of the Northern Assembly, every last one of them, was elected to administer, run, develop, and advance the society they represent.

Talks on the formation of a new Government in Stormont are set to get underway following the completion of the count in the North's Assembly elections.

The story of the 2011 Assembly election has repeated the same plot-line that has been played out for the last 10 years in the North.

All 108 seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly have been filled following a two-day election count.

The leader of the North's Ulster Unionist Party was under pressure tonight after branding Sinn Féin “scum” in an election count outburst.

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

The DUP and Sinn Féin were making significant gains in the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections.

The DUP can take the credit for forcing Sinn Féin to move towards supporting the police, the party’s East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson insisted tonight.

Fermanagh South Tyrone was tonight shaping up to be a dull election story - until one of the candidates got arrested in connection with an attempted murder.

The Ulster Unionist Party has paid the price for its arrogant treatment of former members in the North’s Assembly Election, it was claimed tonight.

Sinn Féin’s Caitriona Ruane topped the poll in South Down with a firm warning to the DUP to meet the March 26 deadline for power sharing.

Sinn Féin were tonight on the brink of taking a seat in the strongly unionist stronghold of Jeffrey Donaldson.

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

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.

Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley today had to battle his way through a media scrum to cast his vote in the North’s Assembly Election.

The leader of Britain's Conservative Party is flying into Northern Ireland today, to boost his party's bid for its first Stormont Assembly seat.

The North’s Assembly Election campaign will today go up several gears as candidates lodge their nomination papers for the March 7 poll.

Northern MPs could get seats on a special committee of Dáil, it emerged tonight.

Sinn Féin is being forced into u-turn after u-turn because of the insatiable demands of Ian Paisley, a former party member said tonight.

Former IRA prisoner Gerry McGeough has confirmed his intention to stand against Sinn Féin in the next Assembly election.