MPs from Northern Ireland have expressed concerns over changes to the welfare system.

A scenic port town on the east coast of Ireland, Drogheda is the last place you would expect to find a vestige of the Ottoman Empire. Yet an understated plaque hanging on the frontage of the town’s bustling Westcourt Hotel tells a very different story. Unveiled in 1995 by Drogheda Mayor Alderman Godfrey and the then Turkish Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, Taner Baytok, the plaque, whi...

A short film on the ongoing occupation of the former Bank of Ireland, Royal Avenue, Belfast. by the Creative Workers Cooperative

The Conservative party announce the formation of a new political party in Northern Ireland.

Fewer young people from Northern Ireland apply to go to universities across the United Kingdom in September 2012.

Faisal Islam has a very interesting report from Davos on how at least one bank no longer believes that a euro from Ireland, say, is worth the same as one from Holland or Germany. He writes that: ‘A leading European bank has begun to account for euros differentially, by nation state. That is to say, they are differentiating a risk to euros that originate in a potentially defaulting country fr...

Lord Empey has warned that independence for Scotland risks reigniting conflict in Northern Ireland.

Bonds fell below the 6% level before edging back up in the so-called LTRO rally which has also led to sharp falls in Spain, Greece and Ireland

Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice criticises the former Secretary of State Peter Hain over remarks he made about a Belfast judge in his memoir.

Swap of €3.52bn in sovereigns part of a government strategy to reduce its significant funding requirements