It comes amid escalating tensions in the region.

South Belfast and Mid Down MP Claire Hanna succeeded Colum Eastwood as SDLP leader on Saturday.

The two press officers are no longer working for Sinn Fein or members of it.

Taoiseach expresses his condolences to family of councillor John Naughten

Met Éireann is forecasting 'heavy and persistent rain' this weekend

Shortly after 5.30am on Saturday, October 5th, gardaí and emergency services were alerted by prison authorities to an incident within the prison

Here are the biggest stories leading Saturday’s headlines

The Assembly Commission said it moved to cancel the Stormont access pass for the former press officer this week.

The Met Office says it is set to turn unsettled over the weekend, ahead of potentially disruptive weather from midweek.

That is according to a spokesman for Dublin Zoo who said today that “Dublin Zoo continues to incur significant costs related to managing the Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (EEHV) outbreak”.

The inquiry heard that it would also be claimed that Dr Jaber was aware of a report by a consultant neuropathologist which contradicted his own opinion.

Gina Murray’s 13-year-old daughter Leanne was one of nine people killed in the IRA attack in 1993.

Micheál Martin thanked the governments of Netherlands and Canada who assisted with the departure on Friday.

Claire Hanna will be confirmed as the new leader of the SDLP at the party’s annual conference in Belfast on Saturday.

The display, also known as aurora borealis, is most likely to be visible in the north of the country this weekend

The Council had granted planning permission after omitting two storeys from the 10-storey block scheme.

Stormont Education Minister Paul Givan met the Loyalist Communities Council last week.

It comes after former UK prime minister Boris Johnson wrote that Mr Biden had privately told him that he wasn’t really Irish.

The DPC said it had received a number of complaints from Ryanair customers across the EU

Simon Harris’s comments come as Israel carried out a series of air strikes overnight in the southern suburbs of Beirut.