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

A former TUV election candidate has hit out at noise from an Islamic event which she claimed “woke up a significant ...

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

Most interestingly the vote in Northern Ireland could ... to pose a serious threat at the next election. In Northern Ireland, people voted to elect 90 Assembly Members and ultimately the makeup ...

The DUP has been urged not to create another "crocodile moment" around the Irish language as a row over proposed signage for ...

Work to eradicate sectarianism and promote cross-community co-operation in Northern Ireland Support the transfer of policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly "strongly" pro-European ...

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

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 , ...

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 ...

Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid today announced a brief suspension of the Stormont Assembly ahead of another ... to plunge Northern Ireland into an election. "We were very encouraged to ...