However, Stormont Justice Minister Naomi Long said the number of attacks goes up and down with the prison population.

Emma Little-Pengelly says a Sinn Féin proposal to change funding for north-south bodies "breaks the balance" between ...

Some customers in Northern Ireland could have to wait up to another fortnight to have their internet and phone connectivity ...

Speaker Edwin Poots is to review an incident in the assembly where his Sinn Fein deputy reprimanded a TUV MLA for raising issues about how the Stormont institutions handled issues surrounding her ...

The people of Northern Ireland “deserve better” than a powersharing Executive which has “failed repeatedly”, Stormont’s ...

Nicola Sturgeon has called for Scotland to have a process to hold an independence referendum such as Northern Ireland has to hold a border poll.

The Northern Ireland Assembly has indicated it won’t revisit its report into salaries and expenses prompted by the events surrounding Michael McMonagle – a former Sinn Fein press officer later ...

The head of Northern Ireland's public transport operator Translink has said he has concerns about more taxis being allowed to ...

First Minister Michelle O'Neill has "put it to" Northern Ireland Electricity to provide goodwill payments to help residents ...

Health minister hails success of ban on health and social care trusts using locum social workers, but BASW NI warns of rising ...

Stormont’s Speaker Edwin Poots has said the behaviour of some MLAs is “undermining the concept of debate” at the Northern ...

The Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly has followed up last week's dressing down over MLAs' clothes with another salvo ...