SDLP leader says Northern electorate caught in a ‘toxic mix of anger and fatigue’

UK elections present opportunity for Sinn Féin as Margaret Ritchie looks to unionists

Is Arlene Foster right that unionism has awoken from its electoral slumber?

Northern Ireland parties discuss electoral pacts as mindsets shift to campaign mode

Another election? Why, how will it affect Assembly talks, who is likely to win, and . . . why

Leaving Common Fisheries Policy will mean bigger quotas, says fish producers’ leader

‘If no agreement is reached, there would be a number of significant consequences’

Continued erosion of SDLP support means Sinn Féin now in striking distance

UUP may lose out to former member John McCallister, while DUP’s Jim Wells may hold on

Northern Irish parties parade new leaders as DUP stirs voting jitters ahead of May vote

Body found on east end of beach shortly after 3pm by man out walking his dog

Colum Eastwood needs to dig his own trench and move his party out of the Hume shadow

Derry Assembly member defeats Dr Alasdair McDonnell to become sixth leader of party

Worrying times ahead for party which is holding its annual conference this weekend

Nama chairman Frank Daly criticised for refusing to appear before Stormont

NI minister apologised after claim children more likely to be abused in unstable relationships

History suggests that several thousand unionist votes are likely to be cast for Ritchie

Party rules out supporting Cameron in government

Such an approach would leave people in rural communities with insufficient access to broadband

Victims understood to have been killed by carbon monoxide leak