Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill has made history after she was appointed Northern Ireland's first nationalist first minister.
The DUP's Emma Little-Pengelly has been appointed deputy first minister.
The return of power-sharing follows the Democratic (...)
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) —Northern Ireland's main unionist party — has endorsed a deal to restore power sharing, its leader has said.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said it provided a basis for Stormont's return, subject to laws being passed in (...)
Information mistakenly released in a major data breach is in the hands of dissident republicans, Northern Ireland's police chief has said.
The data includes the surname and first initial of 10,000 Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) (...)
Joe Biden has brought words of encouragement and offers of investment on his visit to Northern Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the region's Good Friday peace agreement.
After an informal meeting with Rishi Sunak, the US president expressed (...)
US President Joe Biden is expected in Northern Ireland Tuesday evening, marking the 25th anniversary of peace.
He will first visit the troubled British province, before traveling to the Republic of Ireland - his ancestral homeland.
Biden's visit (...)
Lord Trimble, former first minister of Northern Ireland and Ulster Unionist Party leader, has died.
Lord Trimble, who was 77, led the UUP between 1995 and 2005, and was instrumental in the negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement - the peace deal (...)
Thousands of unionists gathered in front of parliament buildings in Belfast this weekend to celebrate 100 years of Northern Ireland, albeit one year later.
Various members of the Protestant fraternity or the Orange Order — a group which is opposed (...)
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will not go back into government in Northern Ireland until its concerns about post-Brexit trading arrangements are resolved, the party's leader has said.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was among the party leaders to meet (...)
The Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has won the largest number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time.
With almost all votes counted, Sinn Fein has secured 27 of the assembly's 90 seats. The Democratic Unionist Party has 24. (...)
Sinn Fein, an Irish nationalist party, is on course to win the most seats in Northern Ireland in a historic first on Friday evening, according to partial results.
Those results appeared to confirm earlier polls that it would become the largest force (...)
What independent UN human rights experts are describing as an ongoing smear campaign against a prominent Northern Irish academic and human rights lawyer, "has the potential to spark physical violence" they said on Thursday, amidst increasing (...)
The Northern Ireland government has issued a formal apology to victims of abuse in orphanages and children's homes.
Ministers from all five political parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly read out apologies to survivors gathered at the Stormont (...)
While our attention was focused on the unfolding global health crisis precipitated by the spread of COVID-19, Europe was sleepwalking into yet another health crisis.
A new data tool created by Queen's University Belfast in the UK and European Cancer (...)
A bus has been destroyed after it was hijacked and set on fire in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland, BBC reported.
It happened near Valley Leisure Center on Church Road at 19:45 GMT on Sunday.
Police said four men got on to the bus, (...)
Chelsea beat Villarreal 6-5 in a penalty shootout to lift the Uefa Super Cup for a second time on Wednesday after a draining 120 minutes in Belfast.
The teams played out on level terms 1-1 for a pulsating 120 minutes of regulation and extra time (...)
Prosecutors have dropped cases against two former British soldiers accused of murder during Northern Ireland's decades-long sectarian conflict. Both cases involved shootings in 1972 in the city known as Londonderry to UK unionists, and Derry to (...)
Masked youths hijacked and set on fire a bus in West Belfast on Wednesday night as the Northern Irish capital was rocked by the sixth night of violence.
Rioters converged on the so-called peace line street that connects the loyalist community of (...)
Violent clashes in Northern Ireland erupted over the weekend amid increasing tensions in a region historically plagued with sectarian violence.
Sunday marked a third night of disorder in the cities of Belfast and Derry/Londonderry, where police were (...)
Northern Ireland's assembly reopened on Saturday following three-year's of political deadlock after rival nationalist and unionist parties agreed to a new power-sharing deal with Brexit looming.
Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster was (...)
Germany beats hosts Northern Ireland 2-0 on Monday with two goals in the second half to get their Euro 2020 qualification on track as they bounced back from last week's loss to the Netherlands to take over top spot in Group C.
Defender Marcel (...)
Northern Ireland's new police chief warned on Saturday that a hard Brexit could have a "detrimental" impact on two decades of peace in the British-run province and risk his officers becoming targets for militants.
Police Service of Northern Ireland (...)
Britain told China to honor its commitments to protect freedoms in Hong Kong on Tuesday, after police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in the former British colony.
Officers moved in after crowds stormed and trashed Hong Kong's (...)
Northern Ireland's cross-community Alliance Party won its first seat in the European Parliament in a surge it said furthered the case for a re-run of Britain's Brexit referendum.
Alliance leader Naomi Long took the second of three Northern Irish (...)
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Friday said he believed "a deal can be done" to avoid a disorderly British exit from the EU, after a meeting with a key ally of British Prime Minister Theresa May that he said went very well.
Varadkar later (...)
The Northern Irish party which props up Prime Minister Theresa May's minority government demanded on Tuesday that the European Union replace the "toxic" Irish border backstop she agreed, so that the United Kingdom can quit the bloc in an orderly (...)
