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

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 ...

A unionist student has said he feels optimistic that his message is being heard about the disenfranchisement of Northern ...

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 ...

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 , ...

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

Elections are being held in England on May 1 to choose hundreds of councillors, a handful of mayors and a new MP for the constituency of Runcorn & Helsby. Here, the PA news agency looks at the ...

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 ...

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 ...