A controversial scheme which will see money spent in Wales while bypassing the Welsh government will not fully apply to Northern Ireland, the UK government has said.

BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's political parties are rapidly running out of time to restore a devolved power-sharing government, Britain's minister for the region said on Monday, as he sought ...

Environment Minister George Eustice says regardless of specie, the failure to provide for an animal's welfare is against the law. Anyone mistreating their monkey could go to jail for six months under ...

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster speaks at a news conference after a meeting with European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels, Belgium, March 6, 2018.

"This might just be the day when the political process in the north came of age." So says Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness announcing a new deal in Northern Ireland which could see policing and ...

The prime minister anointed Eluned Morgan the new Labour first minister of Wales on Tuesday, making a two-day visit to the principality on his return from Northern Ireland. Meanwhile, Anas Sarwar, the ...

WHEN EDWIN POOTS was chosen as leader of Northern Ireland’s largest political party on May 14th, he described politics as “a rough-and-tumble game”. Defending his role in ousting his predecessor, ...

IN RECENT YEARS it has sometimes seemed as if the only question worth asking about the state of the United Kingdom is which of its four nations would be the first to break away. Northern Ireland, ...

HILLSBOROUGH (Reuters) - The two sides in the Northern Ireland Assembly were expected to resume talks on Friday on a deal that could prevent the collapse of their power-sharing government. Without ...

A deal on policing in Northern Ireland is "within reach", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said. Speaking at a meeting in Dublin with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, she said the devolution ...