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

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

Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid today announced a brief suspension of the Stormont Assembly ahead of another ... very careful consultation with the political parties. Dr Reid rejected ...

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

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

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The pro-Union community in Northern Ireland needs to waken up and smell the political coffee by realising the Alliance Party ...

Sir Jeffrey has been MP for Lagan Valley since 1997 and has previously been a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly ... boycott of Northern Ireland's political institutions.

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political ... of interest in Northern Ireland”, deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has said. Mr Trump met Ms Little-Pengelly, ...

Earlier Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid expressed regret at having to suspend the political institutions ... the devolved Assembly and Executive is up and running as soon as possible." ...

Cara says she would like to see more young people represented at Stormont Members of the Northern Ireland Youth Assembly have come ... would have engagement with political representatives ...