Some MLAs are considering leaving elected politics over the abuse they and their families face, BBC News NI understands.

Northern Ireland facing a ‘mounting list of problems in healthcare, public finance and other aspects of good governance’, new ...

By Professor John Garry , Queen’s University Belfast. Professor Brendan O’Leary , University of Pennsylvania. Dr Jamie Pow , ...

On Saturday we meet for our first party conference since the Westminster election last July. That election was a watershed ...

The View had an excellent report last night highlighting some of the threats and abuse faced by our MLAs. An Electoral ...

Currently the youngest someone can vote in Northern Ireland is 18. However in Scotland, 16-year-olds were allowed to vote in ...

NORTHERN IRELAND will head to the polls on March 2 to elect a new assembly after the country’s power-sharing ... The only chance of avoiding a snap election was for the republican party to stage a ...

By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), hailed its first victory in a Northern Ireland Assembly election as a “defining ...

“First and last, the Boundary Question is the question of this General Election”, said the Northern Government’s official ...

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A group of teenage parliamentarians have come together to debate the merits of lowering the voting age in Northern Ireland to 16.

The IRA was under intense pressure tonight to end all paramilitary activity as Northern Ireland's Assembly and power sharing institutions prepared to make way for the return of direct rule from ...