It's McGuinness
vs McCrea
Sinn Féin can take Mid-Ulster

Daring attacks in Belfast and Ballynahinch

British soldiers again narrowly escaped death this week in two separate IRA attacks in Ballynahinch Co Down and West Belfast.

North Report storm before publication

Speculation regarding the contents of the North report into disputed parades, to be released today, has led many commentators to predict that both the Unionists and the British government will respond negatively.

Trying to avert Drumcree 3

Where unemployment is normal

There's nothing wrong with `normalisation' if it can help the jobless break the vicious poverty trap of unemployment and inadequate social welfare payments, writes Laurence McKeown

``Be on red alert'' warns UVF

Nationalists living in South and East Belfast have been urged to be vigilant after a number of people in the area received death threats, accompanied by UVF propaganda.

Speculation as Whitemoor trial collapses

Last week's collapse of the trial of six prisoners, five of them Irish, charged with breaking out of Whitemoor Prison in September 1994, has fuelled rather than ended speculation about what really happened.

ti-joyriding activists claim success

Communities at Poleglass and Twinbrook have claimed a victory in the first leg to defeat the plague of joyriding in their areas.

Syringe law `counter-productive'

Legislation on syringe attacks will have little impact on offenders who wield syringes as weapons but may make matters worse for health providers trying to curb the spread of infectious diseases.