Paisley rules out devolution deal
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A deal to restore devolution in Northern Ireland will not be signed, DUP leader Ian Paisley confirms.
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The Lib Dems will not trade "principled opposition for the sake of ministerial jobs", Sir Menzies Campbell says.
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A leading DUP MP told members of a right-wing fringe group at Westminster that his party was 'in no hurry to achieve a deal,' on the day that the British and Irish Governments issued their proposals to resolve ...
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Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley is due to meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London today as part of ongoing efforts to restore devolved government in the North.
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Senior Liberal Democrats yesterday moved to clear the way for the election of their new leader tomorrow by rejecting an appeal by David Cameron to join him in a new 'progressive alliance' against a centralising Labour government
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Tony Blair will today put more pressure on the DUP to sign up to a new Ulster peace deal. The prime minister will meet with hardline unionist leader Ian Paisley in Downing Street today having made clear he
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HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland  - Northern Ireland  Protestant hard-liner Ian Paisley said on Wednesday the IRA may  be about to disarm but he would not share power with its  political ally Sinn Fein without photographic proof of the act.
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Northern Ireland leader Ian Paisley and the head of state of the Irish Republic, President Mary McAleese, shook hands Monday for the first time _ another symbolic milestone on Ireland's road to reconciliation.Paisley, 81, for decades rejected any role for the Irish Republic in Northern Ireland, a predominantly Protestant part of the United Kingdom. Last year, he accused McAleese of being a deceitful politician who talked nicely in public but privately loathed Northern Ireland's Protestant majority. Read more
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Ian Paisley conceded even more ground to republicans during the latest Northern Ireland peace negotiations than was in the Good Friday Agreement he vowed to smash, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble claimed.
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The Rev. Ian Paisley said Saturday he is stepping down as leader of the hard-line Protestant church he founded 56 years ago, a decision his opponents say was inevitable after he angered many by cooperating with Sinn Fein to form a Northern Ireland government.
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The SDLP leader denies it is divided over its support for the NI budget and programme for government.
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According to Sinn FÃ©in President Gerry Adams a deal that will restore devolution in Northern Ireland is still possible despite current difficulties.
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The Democratic Unionist party leader, Ian Paisley, emerged from Downing Street talks today and said that republicans had a &quot;now or never&quot; chance to disarm and do a deal with him on power sharing.
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Ian Paisley last night emerged from Downing Street to warn the IRA that he will not compromise on the need for public proof of its disarmament, while confirming his willingness to govern Northern Ireland in partnership with his historic enemies once they
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The Department of Local Government and the Environment said last week it would not ask Tynwald to endorse its plan to create area authorities for the north, south, east and west to run alongside Douglas.
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The British government says there is no reason why devolution cannot be restored to Northern Ireland.Comment
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Warning that he would not be &quot;bluffed,&quot; Protestant leader Ian Paisley said Saturday the latest attempt to achieve peace in Northern Ireland was doomed unless the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA) took immediate and verifiable steps to disarm.