Sight of swallows at Christmas signals ‘crisis’ - not an early summer
An adult and juvenile swallows are overwintering in the coastal village of Killough
Stormont committee chair says minister failing to deliver promised investment in PE
Nick Mathison said Paul Givan acknowledged PE’s importance in schools but instead funded outdoor play and computers
Councillor whose failed MLA selection bid prompted Doug Beattie to resign as UUP leader quits party
Darryl Wilson will continue to serve as an independent on Causeway Coast & Glens Council
Woman whose sister was killed in Birmingham pub bombings says she and Paddy Hill were ‘victims of establishment whitewash’
Julie Hambleton long believed the Birmingham Six were guilty but changed her mind after meeting the late Paddy Hill
John Manley: Stormont will miss Conor Murphy but he is well placed to advance the unity debate
Sinn Féin will find it difficult to replace the economy minister with an as effective and articulate party representative
Sinn Féin Seanad candidate Conor Murphy believes there can be a border poll by 2030
The economy minister says he’ll will quit Stormont if elected to the Oireachtas
Birmingham Six’s Paddy Hill remembered as ‘amazing man’
Wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings Paddy Hill went onto advocate on behalf of victims of miscarriages of justice
Analysis: Is all fair in love, war and peace-building?
Freshly-unsealed Department of Affairs’ documents reveal back-channel triangulation involving Dublin, London and Gerry Adams - should we really be surprised?
Finance minister’s rates proposals will raise ‘puny sums’, says Stormont opposition
Proposed changes to rating policy that will go out for consultation in the new year will raise just over half the sum owed annually through non-payment
MLA calls for cannabis decriminalisation claiming ‘war on drugs has failed’
There were 2,205 prosecutions for possession of Class B drugs in the north last year.
MLAs’ overseas ‘jet-setting’ to obscure conferences cost almost £19,000 this year
Fresh revelations show the assembly's total bill for Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conferences this year tops £30,000
John Manley: Is there a realistic prospect of a border poll by the end of the decade?
At the halfway point in what has been termed the ‘decade of opportunities’ Political Correspondent John Manley assesses the chances of securing a border poll by 2030
Ending academic selection in Northern Ireland is key to a united Ireland says economist
The son of former taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald argues for reform of the north's education system "so that it stops failing 60% of kids at the age of 11"
Pro-EU parties criticise application of Stormont brake
The DUP says changes to the labelling of chemicals to meet EU regulations will ‘further fracture in the UK internal market’
Stormont assembly chief executive’s £18,000+ bill for trips to Australia, Canada and another to a remote island in the south Atlantic
Lesley Hogg is paid £166K-a-year