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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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, ...

A deal on policing in Northern Ireland is "within reach", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said. Speaking at a meeting in Dublin with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, she said the devolution ...

Feargal Cochrane works at the University of Kent. He is incoming Vice Chair of the Political Studies Association and a Trustee of the Oxford Research Group. Bill Clinton, when US president, referred ...