Labour agrees to organise in NI
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Senior Labour party officials agree to allow their members in Northern Ireland to organise politically.
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Counting in Northern Ireland Assembly election is to conclude on Friday with the DUP and Sinn Fein on top.
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Job cuts are expected, as part of the biggest shake-up of the NI civil service for many years is unveiled.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will urge Labour to unite behind a radical third term agenda as he bids to heal party wounds over Iraq. The premier will be speaking after sustaining an expected defeat from conference delegates over rail re-nationalisation.
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A hugely ambitious blueprint for a new era in Northern Ireland - in which Irish republicans would sit in government with the Rev Ian Paisley - was put on show in Belfast yesterday as the deal that almost was.
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The Taoiseach is to hold talks with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in London on Wednesday. The two governments are at what Mr Ahern described as &#39;hopefully the decisive stage&#39; in their efforts to broker a deal in the North&#39;s peace process.
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Postal union leaders agree a deal aimed at solving a dispute over pay and conditions.
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A political agreement in Northern Ireland could be reached by the middle of next week, the leader of the moderate Alliance Party has said.
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A week of intense political activity aimed at generating movement in the Northern Ireland political situation is due to begin.
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Politicians from Northern Ireland's main parties are to begin intensive negotiations aimed at restoring devolution.
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Bono, lead singer with rock band U2, is to take centre stage at the Labour Party conference on Wednesday.
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Israel&#39;s ruling Likud and opposition Labour parties plan to seal a deal to forge a unity coalition seen as crucial to carrying out Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Gaza pullout plan, party officials say.
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The biggest labour grouping opens its annual conference here Monday, with most unions set to go easy on the Labour government ahead of a general election expected next year, experts said.
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Ulster Defence Association leaders from across NI gather to present a united front against criminality.
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The Prime Minister has arrived in Northern Ireland for crunch talks on the future of devolved government in the region. All the main political parties, along with Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie
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The Democratic Unionist Party&#39;s executive has given its unanimous approval to leader Ian Paisley as he enters the final stage of talks aimed at restoring devolution to Northern Ireland.
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Sinn Fein's move to support the police in Northern Ireland leaves unionists with no excuse to balk at power-sharing, Ulster Secretary Peter Hain has insisted.As he prepared to meet Irish premier Bertie Ahern ...Comment