Following today's excellent GCSE results - in which Northern Ireland again significantly out-performed England and Wales - UUP Education Spokesperson and Lagan Valley MLA Basil McCrea has congratulated Northern Ireland's young people, parents and teachers on their success.

A feasibility study into offshore renewables and grid potential is to be conducted by the Scottish Government in partnership with the Government of Ireland and Northern Ireland Executive, it has been announced.

Four areas of the UK now have devolved administrations of one kind or another: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and, of course, London. One constituent part is notable by its absence - England. How far is Westminster? The UK is dominated - economically, politically, demographically - by England. The Welsh and Scottish nations desired greater autonomy as a

Shaun Woodward MP, Labour's Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, speaking to Labour Party Conference today, said: Conference. It has been an enormous privilege to serve as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The opportunity to serve and the privilege to work with the people of Northern Ireland will always be with me. This has been another historic year for Northern Ireland. The third and f...

The first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland unite to condemn UK government spending plans.

Although women in England, Scotland and Wales are able to have abortions up to 24 weeks, abortion rights are denied to women in Northern Ireland. There is the opportunity, with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill going through Parliament, for this legal anomaly to be removed. However, the government doesn't seem to keen on this. Kate Belgrave argues that this could be because of a squalid ...

The Elections Ireland.Org website is produced in association with renowned Irish political commentator Seán Donnelly. It provides listings, and some analysis, of all general election results in The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland since 1918. It also covers by-elections in Northern Ireland and Ireland from 1918 onwards, European Parliament elections in the region since 1999, and Iri...

Vernon Coaker, Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, in response to the announcement from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions that 26,000 public sector jobs will be lost in Northern Ireland by 2017, said:

BBC correspondents on the election in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England.

On Northern Ireland, as we were saying this morning, Shaun Woodward was emphasising that there appeared to be a small number of criminals behind these murderous acts. The PMS said that Shaun Woodward had used the word criminals regardless of how these people chose to describe themselves. It had been very clear from the Prime Minister s and Northern Ireland Secretary s visit to Northern Ireland yes...