Those who are continually discussing or moving towards constitutional change in the shape of border polls, while trying to keep unionists on board and asking them to get back into the Executive, are ...

Northern Ireland was on the “cusp of a new beginning” with the return of the Stormont political institutions, officials ...

DEVOLUTION around the UK has led to closer links between Wales and Ireland, former Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy said last night. DEVOLUTION around the UK has led to closer links between Wales and ...

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 ...

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

STORMONT should pursue the devolution of income tax powers, the Fiscal Commission for Northern Ireland has recommended. The independent group of academics and economists has completed its ...

Northern Ireland has seen the last part of the devolution picture fall into place, Secretary of State Shaun Woodward said in his Christmas message. He hailed the deal between the DUP and Sinn Fein ...

A policing representative group has said that the “dysfunctional manner” and “unnecessary red tape” of the devolved institutions has failed officers and the people of Northern Ireland. The Police ...

It's Albert Einstein's classic definition of insanity - "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." A second Northern Ireland Assembly election might produce a slightly ...

DEVOLUTION to Northern Ireland is now “set in stone”, Secretary of State Peter Hain said last night, as he prepares for today’s historic restoration of power-sharing to the Province. The Rev Ian ...

Talks aimed at restoring Northern Ireland's power-sharing government have made little progress, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has said. The province's political institutions were suspended on 14 ...

Attempts to restore Northern Ireland's devolution would probably be put back until 2009 if the 24 November deadline is missed, the NI secretary has said. Peter Hain said the two governments were ...