Politics

Suspended DUP MP Ian Paisley has apologised to supporters at a meeting near Ballymena on Monday evening.

Over the weekend footage emerged of teenagers singing along to and chanting pro IRA slogans as the republicans’ folk band ‘The Wolfe Tones’ played at the West Belfast Feile.

Northern Ireland is a land of continuing sorrow. A land where the tears never really get a chance to dry. A land where, almost every day, an awful memory is recalled, an awful pain relived and an awful loss still hangs over thousands of households.

Copy of letter to George Hamilton, chief constable of the PSNI, from Alderman John Finlay

Home Secretary Sajid Javid has suggested that Jeremy Corbyn should quit as Labour leader following controversy over his visit to a cemetery in Tunisia containing memorials to PLO terrorists.

This week was my second visit to Londonderry in recent weeks, the first by train, this one by car.

The delay to the York Street junction upgrade is a blow to a crucial infrastructure project.

A DUP MP has expressed concern that Northern Ireland could become reliant on the Republic of Ireland for electricity, amid growing scrutiny of the all-island energy market.

The attorney general has made an unusual intervention into the Stormont decision-making crisis by asking the Supreme Court to examine a constraint on Stormont civil servants which they had been prepared to accept.

A former speaker of the Assembly has urged the government to call fresh elections, something he said could either strengthen Arlene Foster’s hand or see her deposed – either of which might help to break the deadlock between the DUP and Sinn Fein.

The man who until a year ago was the DUP’s Westminster chief of staff has said that the party now doesn’t employ a single person – not even a secretary – in Westminster, despite hundreds of thousands of pounds which it could use to employ staff.

The news the £130 million improvement scheme to Belfast’s York Street junction is facing delays due to errors in its procurement strategy is frustrating for hauliers.

A Northern Ireland tour guide who has been conducting tours for visitors for more than three decades has called for the industry here to be better regulated.

Political parties have been accused of using Belfast City Council resources for campaigning.

Boris Johnson is to face investigation by an independent panel following complaints that his comments on the burka breached the Conservative Party's code of conduct.

Peter Robinson is correct in calling for unionists to consider demands for a united Ireland – but, I suggest, for the wrong reasons.

Troubles victims have voiced “disgust” after the PSNI’s chief constable shared a panel with a former IRA terrorist during a debate on legacy issues.

A body owned by the Irish government has declined to say whether it wants to see Westminster use direct rule to urgently approve a vast cross-border electricity line which it says is crucial to keeping the lights on in Northern Ireland.

Sinn Fein members from outside north Antrim were present at a polling station in Ballymoney today where the petition t0 unseat Ian Paisley was opened to the public.