The veteran Sinn Fein politician is leaving his job as Stormont economy minister to take on a new role in the upper chamber ...

The all-Ireland and cross-border institutions have been restored, are working hard and strong cooperation exists between ministers in Belfast and Dublin. We have again taken up our seats around ...

A Stormont committee which faced criticism over its failure to get answers from the first minister over Sinn Fein ...

A day of reckoning is fast approaching for the Irish Government and its engagement with the Omagh bomb inquiry. The Taoiseach last week pledged that the government will co-operate fully with the ...

The party has spent almost a decade developing a comprehensive new economic policy for Northern Ireland. Yet it feels as if ...

In February 1844, not long before The Famine, British Tory MP Benjamin Disraeli offered this brief overview of Ireland: “A dense population, in extreme distress, inhabit an island where there is ...

Liz Kimmins has taken over as Infrastructure Minister, with the former minister John O'Dowd taking up the finance brief. | ...

Last-placed Cathal Berry, former Independent TD for Kildare South sees his Seanad bid end. Former MP Mr Murphy, who led Sinn ...

The human rights situation across the Democratic Republic of Congo remains dire, with internal conflicts and poor governance contributing to a severe food crisis and the internal displacement of 5 ...

Luke O’Neill: How to reduce your risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease: have your hearing checked, socialise more – and ditch the GPS Alzheimer's disease affects the hippocampus. Photo: Stock ...