Northern Ireland's political parties are resuming negotiations in a last-ditch attempt to restore devolved government before time runs out. If there is no agreement by 13 January, the Northern Ireland ...

BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's political parties are rapidly running out of time to restore a devolved power-sharing government, Britain's minister for the region said on Monday, as he sought ...

Summarising the feedback from an away day for the newly-created Office of the First and Deputy First Ministers (OFMDFM) in ...

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster speaks at a news conference after a meeting with European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels, Belgium, March 6, 2018.

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn says the second phase of a town rejuvenation scheme criticised by Welsh MSs will not operate in Northern Ireland [PA Media] A controversial scheme which will see ...

Environment Minister George Eustice says regardless of specie, the failure to provide for an animal's welfare is against the law. Anyone mistreating their monkey could go to jail for six months under ...

"This might just be the day when the political process in the north came of age." So says Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness announcing a new deal in Northern Ireland which could see policing and ...

WHEN EDWIN POOTS was chosen as leader of Northern Ireland’s largest political party on May 14th, he described politics as “a rough-and-tumble game”. Defending his role in ousting his predecessor, ...

HILLSBOROUGH (Reuters) - The two sides in the Northern Ireland Assembly were expected to resume talks on Friday on a deal that could prevent the collapse of their power-sharing government. Without ...

IN RECENT YEARS it has sometimes seemed as if the only question worth asking about the state of the United Kingdom is which of its four nations would be the first to break away. Northern Ireland, ...