Northern Ireland Assembly

DUP watching if Stormont stance pays off; Sinn Féin looking to become largest party; Alliance surge may be at expense of UUP and SDLP

Leo Varadkar met British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during fourth Council of Europe summit in Iceland

Twenty-five years after the Belfast Agreement, the dreary constitutional question still eclipses every other issue

With Stormont on hiatus for more than a year, Sinn Féin and Alliance will seek to gain while DUP tries to hold

Northern Secretary has blamed the £300m unplanned overspend last year on the absence of a government in Stormont

Former congressman characterises trip to North as ‘an incredible 11 days’, notable as being ‘invigorating and powerful’

DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson expresses concern about ‘playing politics with public services’

Chris Heaton-Harris is due to meet the main parties at Hillsborough Castle on Thursday to discuss the budgetary picture

Irish-British partnership ‘manifestly better’ now than for some time, Tánaiste tells North event

Institutionalising two tribes and structuring power sharing accordingly is seen by many as flaw of accord

The great and the good are gathering here - and in a series of gala dinners and events they’ll pat themselves on the back for a job well done. We need more

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak to visit Northern Ireland during US President’s visit next week

Two-thirds of those polled believe Executive should be re-established following deal between EU and UK, Queen’s University poll shows

Gerry Adams told a conference in New York that the Good Friday accord was most important political agreement of our time

A quarter of a century on, daily violence is gone but education is 93% segregated, Stormont is not functioning and paramilitaries remain a scourge on some of the most marginalised communities

President Biden’s visit next week will encourage a return to power-sharing in the North, says Coveney

Malachi O’Hara uses first party conference as leader to criticise North’s ‘dysfunctional politics’

SDLP leader told party conference that DUP must ‘get back to work or get out of the way’

US academic argues that the perils are more pronounced than the prospects in any envisaged referendum

DUP leader accepts ‘progress’ has been made but defends position in blocking restoration of power-sharing Executive

Rebellion boosted in advance after former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss both announced they would oppose latest post-Brexit proposals

Chairman of Belfast Agreement talks says today’s politicians must show the same courage and vision as those in 1998

Party signals it will vote against the Windsor framework designed to boost trade and the local economy

When it comes to political strategy, the worst outcome is where every loss is permanent and every victory pyrrhic

Sinn Féin leader said it would be a lost opportunity if Stormont is not restored in time for the 25th anniversary of Belfast Agreement signing

Actor asks, “How many months did that take to think ‘hey, let’s think of a green lane and a red lane’?”

Current mix of support mechanisms for producers is unnecessarily costly for consumers and uncertain for renewables investors

Leaders from North and South visit US for St Patrick’s Day, with focus on Northern Ireland’s economic future

US president spoke alongside British prime minister Rishi Sunak about planned visit at event in California

Tánaiste praises US president for ‘singular and extraordinary solidarity’ to Ireland on St Patrick’s Day trip to New York

A life of protest fuelled by socialist convictions, hatred of injustice, and the excitement of rebellion, played out against convulsive changes in Northern politics and society

Introduction of a Stormont Brake opens a door to pursue wider reform of community designation

Powersharing must be restored before any big changes made, former taoiseach says in Belfast

Party’s confidence on full display as it plans to expand into areas where it has traditionally struggled

Party has sought legal advice on whether existing arrangements are compliant with human rights

Separate guides to the new agreement on the Northern Ireland protocol published by the UK and the EU seem to agree on very little

‘Time is of the essence’ in relation to return of Assembly and Executive, party leader Mary Lou McDonald says

Party appears to be grasping at any straw to delay resumption of powersharing at Stormont

New ‘emergency’ mechanism agreed by EU and UK that will give Stormont assembly a say in new EU laws applying in Northern Ireland

Brake opens possibility that unionists could successfully block new EU legislation in areas covered by protocol from being applied in NI