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, ...

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 ...

A controversial scheme which will see money spent in Wales while bypassing the Welsh government will not fully apply to Northern Ireland, the UK government has said.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

This week Michelle O'Neill made history when she became the first republican ever to be appointed First Minister of Northern Ireland. Following close to two years of turmoil the devolved Stormont ...

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, ...

The prime minister anointed Eluned Morgan the new Labour first minister of Wales on Tuesday, making a two-day visit to the principality on his return from Northern Ireland. Meanwhile, Anas Sarwar, the ...

Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern has said an economic package for Northern Ireland is necessary in order to get the assembly up and running. Mr Ahern said his department was meeting ...