Ireland's first TD from a Traveller background, Sinn Féin’s Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, says comments 'tantamount to hate speech' Free article

Martin McGuinness, Alex Maskey and Niall Ó Donnghaile meet families under siege in Short Strand by Union flag rioters Free article

Several men smashed the back window of the police car and lobbed a petrol-bomb through the broken glass as the policewoman sat inside Free article

Martin McGuinness visited the nationalist Short Strand neighbourhood in east Belfast on Wednesday 16 January. Free article

Eamon Gilmore in Belfast on Thursday to meet Martin McGuinness and Peter Robinson Free article

'Financial Times' editorial ‘deeply worrying’ Free article

The Bill is one strand of a wider campaign of lobbying, meetings with groups such as the credit unions and NGOs, and leafleting by Sinn Féin activists across the state Free article

If the PSNI does not protect people in their homes from attack they have the right to self-defence, Sinn Féin MLA says Free article

Mary Lou McDonald says Labour leader Eamon Gilmore must clarify position on equal pay after today’s RTÉ Radio ‘Morning Ireland’ interview Free article

Pat Finucane report reveals more details of the role British Army Intelligence undercover agent Brian Nelson played in the killing of Terence McDaid Free article