In the Northern Ireland Assembly elections, Sinn Fein have become the largest party. The results so far explained in maps and charts. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet ...

The Northern Ireland Assembly has engaged with police over abuse faced by its members (MLAs), Speaker Edwin Poots has said.

People across the United Kingdom headed to the polls on Thursday for local and regional elections ... in Northern Ireland could signal a changing point for local politics, as the devolved assembly ...

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

A buoyant mood at the conference in the Royal Hotel, attended by around 200 members and delegates, was tempered as Mr ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The biggest issue, according to Joël Reland, a senior researcher at the Brexit think tank UK in a Changing Europe ... and former Ulster Unionist Party member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, has ...