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 Northern Ireland Executive's programme for government ... areas where there is "consensus" among the four parties who make up the mandatory coalition. But he said the process of reaching ...

Stormont has been allocated a level of funding unprecedented outside the coronavirus pandemic, but it will not undo the damage of 14 years of austerity, the Northern Ireland Assembly has heard.

Edwin Poots encouraged assembly members to ensure that they report any threats or harassment that they receive to the police. The Northern Ireland Assembly has engaged with police over abuse faced ...

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 ...

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 ...

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has hailed the Stormont Executive’s long-awaited programme for government as a “significant milestone”. Unveiled to the Assembly on ...

Representatives from all parts of Northern Ireland sit in the assembly. They are called Members of the Legislative Assembly, or MLAs. We can vote for these politicians in regional elections.