A group of teenage parliamentarians have come together to debate the merits of lowering the voting age in Northern Ireland to 16. They are members of the Youth Assembly, a 90-strong body of 12-16 ...

Members of the Northern Ireland Youth Assembly ... 16 and 17 year olds were able to vote in elections for the Welsh Parliament for the first time in 2021. Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots MLA said ...

The Northern Ireland Executive's programme for government ... keen to make as much progress as possible before the next assembly election is due in 2027.

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 Northern Ireland Executive's programme for government ... keen to make as much progress as possible before the next assembly election is due in 2027. Alliance assembly member Paula Bradshaw ...

The Irish Government should start its own public inquiry into the Omagh bombing, according to a motion passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly. Dublin has said it will fully co-operate with the UK ...

Part of a series of articles exploring the role of the left in the great political upheaval in Northern Ireland in 1968-9, ...

A major weapons manufacturer is set to open a third facility in Northern Ireland, Assembly members have heard. Thales UK operates two sites in the region – with high-precision missiles designed ...

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 ...